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ScaleArc exhibited at
PASS Summit 2013 from October 13-15 in Charolotte, North Carolina. Here is a brief summary of what happened during the show:
We had over 300 visitors! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hello, see a demo, or grab some chocolate!
I just boarded a 16-hour flight from Dubai to SFO, so I’d like to take this opportunity to share what I’ve learned about the database scalability landscape over the last decade or so, and explain what molded ScaleArc into the company it is today.
When we started ScaleArc, one of the guiding principles of the company was to “commoditize database scalability.” Database scalability, I believe, is one of the fundamental building blocks of all successful web/enterprise apps, and as a result of that, is something that is becoming even more critical as the number of users, apps and interactions on the open web continue to grow.
Our conference schedule went into overdrive in the past 3 weeks. During that time, we exhibited at the AWS Summit NY, Percona Live in Santa Clara, the AWS Summit in SF, and finally at Interop in Las Vegas. LOTS of interest in
ScaleArc, and we already have many evaluations underway as a result of the shows!
The Percona Live MySQL conference was an easy commute. We literally walked across the street from our offices to the Santa Clara Convention Center! It was great engaging with the MySQL crowd, as they really feel the pain in trying to scale their MySQL environments. One of our customers, Mark Grennan of Weather Decision Technologies, flew in from Oklahoma for the show. It was great to see Mark, and he was kind enough to hang out in our booth for a while to serve as an on-demand customer reference! You can read about Weather Decision’s success with ScaleArc iDB in the case study.
On a bright sunny day in May 2011, my good friend BV Jagadeesh, the former CEO of NetScaler, called me and asked me to meet a former NetScaler customer who had “solved the database scalability issue.” With my curiosity piqued I hiked up 3rd street in San Francisco to meet with Varun Singh, the founder/CEO of a young company named ScaleArc, in the lobby of a downtown hotel.
ScaleArc exhibited at GDC (Game Developers Conference) in SF in late March, and Cloud Connect in Santa Clara, CA last week. The attendees may have looked different (not a lot of pink hair at Cloud Connect), but they certainly had one thing in common: the need to scale their database environments without sacrificing performance and availability, and without taking developers off of critical projects to modify existing applications for scale.
