GridGain Systems - Company of the Year
Company: GridGain Systems
Entry Submitted By: Compel PR
Company Description: GridGain provides in-memory speed and massive scalability for data-intensive applications and real-time data access across datastores.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Company of the Year - Computer Software - Medium
Nomination Title: GridGain Systems
Founded in 2010,GridGain Systems is revolutionizing real-time data access and processing by offering the leading in-memory computing platform, powered by the Apache®Ignite®distributed database. Common use cases for the GridGain platform includeapplication accelerationand digital integration hubs for real-time data access across data sources and applications. 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, Citibank, American Express, Finastra, UPS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, American Airlines, Agilent and UnitedHealthcare.
https://www.gridgain.com/experience/common-use-cases/application-acceleration
https://www.gridgain.com/experience/common-use-cases/digital-integration-hub
GridGain delivers unprecedented speed, massive scalability, and real-time data access for 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 a distributed database for high performance computing with in-memory speed.
GridGain achieved many significant milestones in 2020. GridGain experienced another record sales year, recording its 7th consecutive year of revenue growth, averaging over 100% annual growth during that period. The company booked a record number of transactions over $250,000, an increase of 63% over fiscal year 2019, with several customers exceeding $1 million, reflecting the continued trust many of the world’s largest corporations have in GridGain to power their business-critical applications and digital transformation projects.
GridGain announced the rapid adoption of the GridGain in-memory data grid technology to power digital integration hub architectures, which enable businesses to aggregate data from multiple sources into a low-latency, highly scalable data store, and then make that data instantly available to multiple consuming applications.
https://www.gridgain.com/company/news/press-releases/adoption-digital-integration-hub-architectures-built-gridgain-in-memory
https://www.gridgain.com/experience/solutions/application-performance/digital-integration-hub
GridGain released the online GridGain Control Center, a complete troubleshooting, management and monitoring solution for Apache Ignite and GridGain deployments. https://control.gridgain.com/
GridGain introduced GridGain Nebula, a Managed Service Offering (MSO) for the Apache Ignite database and GridGain in-memory computing platform. GridGain Nebula ensures 24/7 optimal performance of an Ignite or GridGain in-memory computing platform at a fraction of the cost of staffing an internal IT operations team. https://www.gridgain.com/products/services/managed-services
GridGain continued its thought-leadership efforts, hosting the first In-Memory Computing Summit 2020 virtual worldwide conference in Octoberm, with nearly 1,100 people representing 581 organizations from 53 countries registered for the conference. In addition, GridGain provided zero-contact in-memory computing thought leadership and education by hosting or participating in nearly 100 online webinars, meetups and conferences, which were attended by thousands of attendees.
https://www.imcsummit.org/2020/virtual/
https://www.gridgain.com/resources/in-memory-computing-resources
GridGain’s net-new business in 2020 grew by 53%, with a low churn of 6%, demonstrating GridGain’s continued market leadership and exceptional customer satisfaction. In addition, GridGain experienced more than 500% sales growth in Apache Ignite support subscriptions in 2020, reflecting Ignite’s accelerating adoption as the leading open source platform for high performance, high-scale applications that power digital businesses. GridGain continues to be the market leader for thought leadership - a simple Google search for In-Memory Computing yeilds tens of results for thought leadership content authored by co-founder and CTO, Nikita Ivanov.
GridGain was named to:
Deloitte 2020 Technology Fast 500™ for the third consecutive year (#380) https://www.gridgain.com/company/news/press-releases/gridgain-systems-named-deloitte-2020-technology-fast-500tm-third
Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies for the fourth consecutive year (#266 among software companies) https://www.gridgain.com/company/news/press-releases/gridgain-systems-named-inc-5000-list-americas-fastest-growing-private-0
Inc. 5000 Series: California’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies Inaugural https://www.gridgain.com/company/news/press-releases/gridgain-systems-named-to-inaugural-inc-5000-series-californias-fastest-growing-private-companies
Inaugural The Financial Times The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2020 List (#101) https://www.gridgain.com/company/news/press-releases/gridgain-systems-named-to-inaugural-the-financial-times-the-americas-fastest-growing-companies-2020-list
Silicon Valley Business Journal Fastest Growing Private Companies in Silicon Valley (#26)https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/subscriber-only/2020/11/20/fastest-growing-private-companies-in.html
In addition, Database Trends & Applications (DBTA) included GridGain in three annual lists:
DBTA 100 2020 list of the Companies That Matter Most in Data; https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/DBTA-100-2020-The-Companies-That-Matter-Most-in-Data-141182.aspx
Big Data 50—Companies Driving Innovation in 2020; https://www.dbta.com/BigDataQuarterly/Articles/Big-Data-50-Companies-Driving-Innovation-in-2020-142679.aspx?PageNum=3 and
Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2021. https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/Trend-Setting-Products-in-Data-and-Information-Management-for-2021-144175.aspx
Registrations for the annual In-Memory Computing Summits have now increased by more than 10x compared to the inaugural In-Memory Computing Summit in 2015.
Examples of news coverage and thought leadership - https://www.gridgain.com/company/news/in-the-news
In-Memory Computing Summit Website - https://www.imcsummit.org