Customer Lifecycle and Support

Proof of Concepts

Proof of Concepts is an ideal way for enterprises to validate new technologies and new application architectures. They are an attractive vehicle for evaluating alternative and newly emerging technologies, prior to a full commitment to development.

In a Pilot Project, implementations can be developed prior to the major investments necessary for massive build outs, but they can provide useful initial experiences in terms of application correctness, usability, performance, scalability, security, and manageability.

Grid Dynamics Consulting Services excels in designing and implementing proof of concepts and pilot projects. The value proposition of selecting an organization with a track record in this area is that we can deliver high-impact, low-cost implementations that take advantage of our deep experience in the technologies likely to be selected by customers in the data and compute grid areas. Our methodologies for rapid development and testing are proven, as demonstrated by numerous successful projects for major customers.

Enterprise-wide integration of grid technologies — Management consulting & strategic support

Grid Dynamics Consulting Services can help business units define the strategy of integrating grid technologies into enterprise IT. We focus on delivering a comprehensive review of the existing solutions and possible value propositions for enhancements based on compute and data grid technologies. We recommend specific software vendors as a best fit to the overall strategy, cost, and project risks. The final analysis includes a roadmap outlining major steps and milestones toward successful implementation of the proposed strategy.

Grid technologies workshops on best practices and emerging grid usage patterns

Serving multiple clients in grid technologies space allows Grid Dynamics to identify common usage patterns and best practices. This workshop is focused on presenting these patterns and best practices, and possible applications to the client's specific problems.

Data modeling

Online data modeling is a key and formative step in our projects to bring Super Scale to your data center. In order to guarantee the required response times in the millisecond or sub-ms range, we carefully analyze the data model and produce both a data and distributed compute plan for our clients. When applying Super Scale to the solution, we remodel the data structures, objects, and instances, and design the physical platform including the compute, storage, and network infrastructure. By way of example, one approach that we have taken is to use the "Space Based Architecture" memory model as delivered by one of our technology partners, Gigaspaces, Inc. We apply Super Scale architecture to this JavaSpaces based programming model.

Performance assessments

For customers considering a shift to a grid-based architecture, Grid Dynamics Consulting Services can perform a comprehensive review of application performance characteristics, both current and projected. The review will recommend improvements in the area of data loading and access, processing parallelization, and reduction of network traffic between data nodes and business logic nodes.

Project architectural reviews and support

Grid Dynamics Consulting Services can provide comprehensive reviews of a proposed technical architecture for a project. The review includes the analysis of the grid configuration, data life cycles, integration patterns, availability patterns, and risk assessments.

Implementation oversight and support

Grid Dynamics Consulting Services assigns senior engineers to a project to ensure immediate help and oversight in technical implementation details. Grid configuration, services integration, and other ongoing issues are usually addressed without any delays. The client's team benefits from immediate access to the specialized knowledge base represented by a senior engineer.

Development Resources augmentation

At Grid Dynamics Consulting Services, we pride ourselves in having the best and most highly skilled resources. Our engineering team can be at your disposal to augment any project team with very minimal overhead and with immediate impact. (See our team profiles.)

Product training

Grid Dynamics Consulting Services is working on becoming a certified trainer for GigaSpaces and other software vendors in the commercial grid space. Combining the expertise in multiple vendor products allows the trainers to highlight successes and shortcomings of multiple software packages and demonstrate possible integration patterns.