A strategic alliance that combines GridGain's fast growing open source grid computing platform with Grid Dynamics' field-proven design, test and deployment services for distributed, high performance computing environments, was announced today by GridGain Systems and Grid Dynamics.

Nikita Ivanov, GridGain Systems founder, comments: "For GridGain this is a very special partnership". "GridGain and Grid Dynamics share a common perspective about grid computing, from both the technical and business points of view. From our first meeting, it was clear that each company had complementary strengths and expertise that would benefit customers. It is also important to note that our companies have significant R&D operations in Russia and in Ukraine which enables very productive collaboration and seamless solutions for customers."

Victoria Livschitz, Grid Dynamics founder and CEO, says: "I'm very excited about the partnership between Grid Dynamics and GridGain". "GridGain offers a simple, yet powerful, Java-based open source platform for high-performance distributed computing. Grid Dynamics complements this innovative technology with deep expertise in designing complex, scale-out applications and a proven track record of successful project delivery to a global customer base."

Licensed under LGPL and Apache 2.0 licenses, GridGain is open source Java grid computing platform. At http://www.gridgain.com it is available free for immediate download on all major operating systems. GridGain, since its first release in August of 2007, became the fastest growing Java grid computing infrastructure with over 10,000 downloads, dozens of production deployments and utilized by over 500 unique projects, making GridGain the only grid computing infrastructure that gets started by developers all around the globe every 60 seconds.