By Sonal Desai, NWC, Sept. 26 2007, 1600 hrs
Gemstone, an enterprise software company and a provider of enterprise level technologies such as distributed resource management, in-memory caching and disk persistence, scalable data distribution, high performance computing operations, object management, etc. is ramping up its India presence.
With a development center in place and 32 employees, the company plans to increase the staff strength to 50 people in the next three to four months. The company recently launched Gemfire 5.1, a new product that will also cater to the archival and compliance needs of enterprises.
The API is a set of monitoring and management tools with enhanced features such as data positioning with high availability, accessibility from any network, no data duplication even when the server is switched off, disk access, etc.
“The tools can be used during login mechanism and disk movements. They also assure data virtualization on computer grids. We are the only vendor to support Java, C++ and .Net. In India, we are building an ecosystem to leverage scaled databases,” said Sudhir Menon, Senior Engineering Manager for Gemstone.
“We would essentially like to work with enterprise groups with hosted online portals, groups developing products for the financial and logistics market, retail products involving RFiD, etc. We will approach service providers and ask them to embed our products on their offerings, he said.”
Globally, it has around 2,000 customers including independent software companies, systems integrators building high performance , data intensive enterprise solutions, and another 200 comprising companies and organizations within financial services, energy, logistics, telecommunications and the federal government as customers.
The company will target the BFSI, retail with rfid, large PSUs, manufacturing, telecom, ship management, pharma and life sciences verticals in India.
Menon said, “We now want to focus on deployments and are looking at partnerships with OEMs.” The company already has strong partnerships with Intel, IBM, Data Synapse, Platform Computing, Sun Microsystems, BEA and Cincom.
Said he, “Internationally, these partners have taken us into their strongholds and placed the Gemfire framework into systems fit for their customers. We will continue similar methodology even in India. Secondly, testimonials and relationships with our international customers would help us access entry into MNC companies, and these examples would be then used as case studies to market our product to the Indian companies.”
Gemstone products are priced on an enterprise license model. It could be a one touch price (running into multi million dollars) or license per CPU or server deployments.
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