JavaZone 2012 - The evolution of data grids, from local caching to distributed computing
Distributed caching technologies have now been around for more than ten years. Their capabilities have grown and matured over the years, and so have the users and their use cases. This presentation will look at how the use of data grids have evolved from distributed caching to doing highly sophisticated distributed computing today.
The audience will learn how new capabilities has changed how data grids are being used from an architectural point of view and also how it helps solve new problems like running applications across multiple datacenters, sharing data across multiple platforms and making applications ready for the cloud.
Bjørn Vidar Bøe
Bjorn Boe works as a Solution Architect at Oralce, specializing in Oracle middleware solutions, including Oracle Coherence. At Oracle he has spent a lot of time with large American customers solving problems around performance and scalability using data grid solutions. Prior to joining Oracle he worked as a consultant where he got a lot of experience dealing with issues around performance and scalability.