FOSTER CITY, Calif., July 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GridGain^® Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache^® Ignite™, today announced continued strong momentum for the first half of 2019. Key achievements during the period included doubling subscription sales versus the previous year, more than doubling sales of all products from new customers versus the previous year, receiving major industry honors, launching innovative new products and services, and driving sharply increased popularity of the In-Memory Computing Summit^® Europe.

“Over the last year, the growing trends of digital transformation, omnichannel customer experience, and internet of things have driven increased adoption of in-memory computing. In-memory computing is the only practical, cost-effective approach to achieving the necessary performance and scalability for these initiatives,” said Abe Kleinfeld, president and CEO of GridGain. “We predicted that in-memory computing would become a part of every fast data discussion in 2019 and we’re excited that this is coming true.”

Growth

• Subscription sales doubled during the first half of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, reflecting the ever-growing number of customer solutions moving into production that are powered by the GridGain in-memory computing platform.
• Total sales from new GridGain customers more than doubled during the first half of 2019 compared to 2018, driven by strong growth in the financial services and telecommunications industries, which both increased over 250% versus 2018.
• Total sales from new European customers grew more than 150% compared to the first half of 2018, reflecting the growing demand for in-memory computing solutions throughout that region.

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About GridGain Systems
GridGain Systems is revolutionizing real-time data access and processing by offering an in-memory computing platform built on Apache Ignite. GridGain solutions are used by global enterprises in financial services, software, e-commerce, retail, online business services, healthcare, telecom, transportation and other major sectors, with a client list that includes ING, Raymond James, American Express, Societe Generale, Finastra, IHS Markit, ServiceNow, Marketo, RingCentral, American Airlines, Agilent, and UnitedHealthcare. GridGain delivers unprecedented speed and massive scalability to both legacy and greenfield applications. Deployed on a distributed cluster of commodity servers, GridGain software can reside between the application and data layers (RDBMS, NoSQL and Apache™ Hadoop^®), requiring no rip-and-replace of the existing databases, or it can be deployed as an in-memory database. GridGain is the most comprehensive in-memory computing platform for high-volume ACID transactions, real-time analytics, web-scale applications, continuous learning and hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP). For more information, visit gridgain.com.

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GridGain Systems
terisman@gridgain.com
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