25-year industry veteran and former senior
engineering leader at AWS Lambda to guide Hazelcast product
strategy and architecture
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Hazelcast,
Inc., the company that enables instant action on all data,
announces Anthony Griffin as its
chief architect, bringing one of the industry's leading experts on
distributed compute to the company. In his new role, Griffin will
apply his serverless compute and financial systems expertise to
evolve Hazelcast's unified real-time data platform and ensure it
exceeds customer expectations of data infrastructure for
mission-critical and AI applications.
Griffin brings over 25 years of experience designing and
building compute-intensive applications, including most recently as
a senior engineering leader at AWS Lambda, an event-driven,
serverless compute platform provided by Amazon. Before that,
Griffin spent more than half of his career in front offices of
major financial institutions, including Danske Bank, Nomura, HSBC,
and more, where he built reactive low-latency trading systems and
AI-based trade monitoring platforms.
"Anthony's background in serverless compute will be instrumental
in guiding our product strategy and addressing the needs of our
customers as they encounter the data-intensive workloads of
mission-critical and AI applications," said Adrian Soars, chief technology officer at
Hazelcast. "While the majority of our customers are the world's
largest financial enterprises, his experience will help all
industries navigate the changing technology landscape and solve the
data challenges they face daily, especially after an application's
deployment."
At Hazelcast, Griffin will lead a team focused on evolving
Hazelcast Platform's architecture and ensuring it maintains its
leadership position as a high-performance data platform. In pursuit
of this goal, he will work closely with the company's Global 2000
customer base to ensure Hazelcast and its technologies deliver the
performance, resilience, and scalability required to modernize
mission-critical and AI applications.
"Hazelcast's reputation of simplifying the complex world of
distributed compute technologies is one I've long admired," Griffin
said. "With enterprises shifting focus and budget to expedite their
AI initiatives, my goal is to ensure our platform mitigates their
day zero data infrastructure challenges."
Griffin's hiring is the latest in a series of leading experts to
join Hazelcast's leadership team. He will report to Soars, who
joined in November 2023. More
recently, Stephen Weston was
appointed chief scientist and is responsible for Hazelcast's AI
strategy. All three hires bring extensive financial services,
compute, and AI backgrounds to Hazelcast.
More on Hazelcast Platform
Hazelcast Platform is
a unified real-time data platform encompassing fast data storage,
in-line compute, and data access for real-time and AI applications.
This unified approach simplifies application architectures,
significantly reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) from
prototyping and designing (Day 0) through developing and deploying
(Day 1) and maintaining, monitoring, and optimizing applications
(Day 2).
In April, Hazelcast released its latest version, Hazelcast
Platform 5.4, setting new industry standards in strong data
consistency and performance for data-intensive, mission-critical
workloads. Among the new features in the release are an advanced CP
Subsystem for strong data consistency and a thread-per-core (TPC)
architecture, which delivers a 30 percent performance improvement
on large workloads.
Additional Resources
- Hazelcast Announces Stephen Weston as Chief Scientist
- Hazelcast Announces Adrian Soars as Chief Technology
Officer
- Hazelcast Sets Industry Standard for Consistency and
Performance for Data-Intensive, Mission-Critical AI Workloads
- Hazelcast for Financial Services
About Hazelcast
The world's leading companies trust
Hazelcast and its unified real-time data platform to take instant
action on all data. Its platform uniquely combines a distributed
compute engine and fast data store integrated into a single
solution businesses can simplify event-driven architectures for
real-time and AI/ML applications to drive new revenue, mitigate
risk, and operate efficiently – at a low TCO.
Customers such as JPMorgan Chase, Volvo, New York Life, Target,
and Domino's use Hazelcast to underpin their business-critical and
real-time applications, such as payments, fraud detection, trade
monitoring, in-game betting, IoT edge computing, customer 360,
real-time offers, and AI/ML deployments.
To join our community of CXOs, architects, and developers, visit
www.hazelcast.com.
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