Whether to survive, or to aim higher and thrive, companies must modernize their operations and become more agile to keep pace with rapidly changing market demands. Executives cite their top three benefits of moving to a modern digital model:

1. Improving operational efficiency
2. Reducing time to market
3. Adapting to new customer expectations

Source: Digital Transformation Report by CorporateLeaders and PTC

To achieve these benefits, any shift must put data front and center. Data – how your company uses it and how your services access – is  a fundamental factor, determining future business success.

Unfortunately, new digital services are often hindered when relying on legacy Systems of Record (SoR) to access data.

While it is possible to rip and replace legacy infrastructure, this comes with considerable cost and risk. So instead, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and GigaSpaces have developed a joint solution, freeing data from slow SoRs and making it quickly accessible wherever it resides: the core, the edge, or the cloud. 

With GigaSpaces’ Smart Digital Integration Hub and HPE’s Superdome Flex servers, you can change focus from infrastructure-centric transformation to data-first value creation and unlock your true business potential.

Meeting market demand with speed and confidence is now a prerequisite for success

Customers have more choices and higher expectations than ever before. This combination drives the need to differentiate your business from the competition and provide innovative digital services that are powered by fast, always-on access to real-time data. With high-performance applications, businesses can deliver insights to truly enhance customer experiences. 

However, this is not possible when applications rely on data from multiple SoRs, designed to prioritize transactional workloads. The performance levels of existing legacy infrastructure simply fail to match the workloads new digital services require. It’s like upgrading your RAM, CPU, GPU, and motherboard and then slotting in a traditional HDD for data storage. One component is holding everything else back.

Legacy datastores are not designed for the functionality users have come to expect. They slow down services, struggle to maintain availability, and limit scalability –  making services unable to match growing user numbers. 

To thrive in the current market, companies need data-first modernization that addresses factors customers really care about like:

• Performance
• Scalability
• Cost optimization
• Availability
• User experience (UX)

Strategic partners for data-first modernization

Running Gigaspaces’ Smart Digital Integration Hub with HPE’s Superdome Flex addresses all these parameters, creating the perfect platform for high-performance data-intensive applications. 

Gigaspaces’ Smart DIH provides distributed architecture to separate your data from legacy systems. Uniting data wherever it is stored (e.g., edge, core, or multiple clouds) ensures users get full value from their services. Smart DIH  aggregates data from all your legacy SoRs into a single data management layer that is synchronized on the backend to reflect real-time changes.

HPE’s Superdome Flex is a family of scale-up servers designed and built to deal with the most intense, mission-critical workloads. With these modular compute platforms, you can combine performance with scalability, reliability, and security regardless of your company’s size. 

Together, these two technologies offer a solution that is no longer capped by legacy systems’ performance. Instead, you can access data at ultra-low latency (<1ms query latency) even as the number of users grows, with the ability to scale up and scale out. This solution can execute hundreds of millions of operations every second on a single server.

HPE Superdome Flex in Gigaspaces Smart DIH reference architecture

Smart DIH running with Superdome Flex gives enterprises the confidence to embark upon data-first digital transformation, allowing organizations to keep portions of their legacy infrastructure in parallel to incorporating modern systems and technologies.

Proven performance that drives innovation

To demonstrate what is possible when running applications on high-performance servers, HPE and Gigaspaces performed significant, rigorous testing. Running over 600 sessions, we put a 12-socket HPE Superdome Flex Server combined with a Gigaspaces Smart DIH through their paces. The full results can be found in a recent white paper here, but it is safe to say that any company looking to modernize its infrastructure and provide next-generation digital applications can greatly benefit from this joint solution.

The paper also demonstrates the impact a dramatic improvement in performance can bring to real-world use cases. Now your team only has to develop once, and deploy anywhere (cloud or multi cloud, on premises, or in hybrid configurations), knowing that real-time data is always only milliseconds away.