Database Scalability Start-Up Showcases Significant Leadership and Customer Momentum
BOSTON, MA, June 20, 2012 — Ram Metser, a software veteran with a proven record of growing emerging technology companies, has joined ScaleBase, the database scalability company, as Executive Chairman.  Metser brings 25 years of leadership and business building experience – most recently as CEO of Guardium, where he led the company from start-up to market leader – and ultimately acquisition by IBM.  At ScaleBase, Metser will be responsible for overall strategy execution, focusing on driving company growth.

“ScaleBase is delivering real value by enabling next generation apps and the transactional processing requirements associated with big data,” said Metser.  “I am thrilled to work with the team, leveraging the company’s unique and innovative technology into a rapidly expanding market.  I look forward to building out the organization and continuing its high growth trajectory.”

ScaleBase is experiencing significant growth and that speaks volumes to the value its solution delivers. ScaleBase reduces time to market for new apps from months to days.  ScaleBase enables these apps to scale on demand and deliver high availability – all while significantly reducing the complexity of an organization’s overall application landscape. ScaleBase deploys its solution on the cloud or on premise.

“This is an exciting time at ScaleBase – until now the company has been focusing on developing a superior technology that addresses a tangible business problem,” said Motti Vaknin of Cedar Fund. “As the company continues to grow, adding experienced, tested industry leaders to the team is critical to its continued success. Ram has the proven ability to lead companies to market leadership.”

Within the past six months, the company has added 10 new customers and three new members to its executive team. Other additions to ScaleBase’s executive team include:

• Michael Castricone, Vice President of Finance and Administration who brings more than 25 years of experience and also served as a member of the Guardium leadership team.
• Paul Campaniello, Vice President of Global Marketing, who brings more than 25 years of experience working with start-up software companies, including Lumigent, Precise and Savantis.
• Rob Levine, Vice President of Worldwide Sales who brings more than 25 years of sales leadership experience with software solution companies, including Onaro, NetApp and e.piphany.

ScaleBase eliminates complexity from organization’s application and database infrastructure by enabling a fast and efficient response to dynamic business requirements.  The company’s Data Traffic Manager provides an abstraction layer that delivers real-time scalability and availability – all without requiring any changes to the existing infrastructure.

About ScaleBase
ScaleBase enables next generation applications – and the massive transactional processing requirements of big data, without requiring changes to the existing infrastructure.

The ScaleBase Data Traffic Manager is middleware that dynamically manages and scales databases to meet changing business demands. ScaleBase provides an abstraction layer with a centralized point of management for a distributed database environment; removing complexity, delivering real-time elasticity and increasing availability – all without requiring any changes to the existing infrastructure.  ScaleBase’s customers span a wide range of industries including SaaS companies, online gaming companies, digital media providers, social networks and enterprises.  The company is venture-backed and is based in Newton, MA.

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AppDynamics picks ScaleBase for sharding over Clusterix

Find out why application performance management company AppDynamics chose ScaleBase over the other scaling/sharding technologies.

If you polled small to midsize tech teams on their biggest database headaches, cost would be at the top of the list — without question. If you haven’t already run into this, the number one reason (and complaint we hear all the time) is hardware.

Hardware is pricey. And time consuming to implement, plus there’s a learning curve — all of which create problems for most of the companies we come across where the primary concern is instant database scalability to meet user demands.

Echoing this, Boris Livshitz, Sever Data Lead at AppDynamics, a ScaleBase customer, explained what drove the company to seek out a new database scalability solution to SearchDataManagement.com:

From the [AppDynamics] founder all the way down, everyone had been asking for an architecture that can scale, and our customers had been asking for an architecture that would scale because they would see performance problems. They want to instantly scale and they want to make sure that we can instantly scale along with them.

And what was the hold up with most of the solutions they tested?

It’s the hardware that really makes it expensive, and you can’t really negotiate that stuff.

So where did AppDynamics turn?

AppDynamics first began looking into database sharding technologies about a year and a half ago, when it became evident that the company needed to scale its MySQL implementation with the needs of its customers — and that continuing to throw hardware at the problem would eventually become prohibitively expensive.

For some companies, throwing new, expensive hardware at the database to increase performance is fine — but for others, like AppDynamics, and web 2.0 entrepreneurs looking to get their venture off the ground, it just isn’t a viable or strategic option.

We’re watching the database industry evolve faster than ever and there are sky high expectations from users for immediate access to applications.

Here’s what we offer: No hardware installation. No changes to existing infrastructure. Instant scalability and the ability to adapt to dynamic business environments.