Waters Rankings' Best Data Grid Provider: IBM

IBM and Oracle have sparred in this category in recent years, and in 2012 it is IBM who comes out on top in the Best Data Grid Provider category, according to Waters readers. Oracle filled the runner-up spot, while VMware finished third for the second straight year.
As Big Data and its ongoing challenges have begun to take hold in financial services, IBM’s cloud capabilities have proven to be a useful tool in this fight. IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides distributed object caching that allows
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