Yaniv Romem: Databases in the Cloud

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
Abstract. As services evolve in the cloud, there is a growing need for a different kind of database altogether. Single node solutions no longer suffice. Instead, a new variety of databases is required to provide a different level of performance altogether accompanied by inherent elasticity, availability and global presence. Vendors are taking multiple paths to meet aspects of this new environment, shunning away from less flexible legacy systems. Scale-up architectures are being replaced by tiered loosely coupled scale-out data management systems.

Xeround’s Intelligent Data Grid (IDG) has been devised to support these requirements from inception. Xeround IDG is unique in providing continuous availability, elasticity with regards to scale-out and scale-in with linear performance per system size, consistent latencies, virtualization of multiple data sources, network and geographical distribution, all using native industry standard interfaces for data and transaction handling.
Bio:
Yaniv Romem is the Chief Scientist of Xeround, Inc., an Intelligent Data Grid software company based in Bellevue, WA. Mr. Romem has over 10 years of engineering management experience in providing cutting edge, high performance distributed computing, network management and networking technologies with a strong focus on distributed computing.
Prior to joining Xeround, Mr. Romem led engineering at ScaleMP, a leading provider of breakthrough technology for high-end computing; Picatel Systems, a provider of infrastructure to telecom companies for creation of the vocal web and the multimodal web; and IPHighway, a specialist in network management software for telecoms and large enterprises focused on quality of service. Mr. Romem spent several years as an officer doing research and development for the Israeli military with a strong emphasis on high performance fault tolerant reliable computing. Yaniv is a member of the elite group of R&D professionals trained in the Israeli army in the Talpiot program.
Yaniv holds an M.Sc. (cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in computer sciences. His research focused on high performance parallel computing. He has spoken at several industry events in Israel.

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