The Team

Our patented technologies were developed by dozens of hand-picked veterans from top-tier technology companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Expedia, and Alta-Vista to name just a few. We have created a unique working environment rewarding best-in-class innovation, responsibility, and teamwork which have not only created a series of best in class technologies, but are also the secret to our rapid innovation and ability to rapidly increase the value we deliver.

The Service

The DataSphere platform is comprised of the hardware, software and infrastructure responsible for powering the suite of sites that we maintain on behalf of our business clients. The platform is a general-purpose extensible and scalable set of services currently managing over 500 professional, high-traffic Web sites, each with catalogs of thousands to millions of items.

DataSphere achieves its massive scalability using grids of cloud-based commodity servers and the latest scalable technologies including Map-reduce and cloud databases. Our site customers can manage their sites through our extensive feature set on our multi-tenant SaaS-based platform from any web browser. We provide not only hardware as a service but all aspects of the technology features needed for managing and maintaining these sites.

Our services feature world class capabilities including:

• Integrated Web-based Content Management with WYSIWYG Editing, roles and rights-based administration
• Semantic Search with automatic Statement completion (suggestions) and “Did you Mean” functionality
• Long-tail content discoverability via Faceted Search Refinements, Automatic Topic Pages, and Content Targeting
• Collaborative Filtering-based recommendations (Users who liked this article also liked these articles)
• High-frequency/High volume Data mash-up services for importing and integrating structured information from diverse sources
• Role-specific site functionality including Editing and detailed In-place Analytics
• Multiple, multi-level taxonomies
• Push-button site deployments
• Pre/Mid/Post Roll Ad-enabled fully customizable Media Players
• Module, Page and Site level multi-path A-B testing
• Full-feature Community feature set with UPC, Discussions, Voting and Facebook, Flickr and Twitter integration
• Self-service portal for businesses and consumers, allowing them granular management of their content
• Extensive Geo-Meronymy (location taxonomy) and maps integration
• Integrated outbound marketing features including SEO, SEM and auto-syndication

And of course we provide extreme scalability, reliability and performance:

• 24 hour a day, 365 days per year continuously-monitored service response
• 99.9% or greater availability (3rd party verified) with extensive Statistics-based process monitoring
• Fully redundant high-availability, fault-tolerant Service-Oriented Architecture
• Continuous watchdog operations and alert systems
• Multi-layer, multi-machine scalable content caching
• High efficiency, control-less lightweight page rendering for lightning-quick page load times
• Extensive User-profile and intent-based targeting
• Continuous integration with other Cloud Service providers including Amazon’s S3 and CloudFront CDN services
• Massively scalable Universal Cloud-based analytics using Hadoop and HBase.
• Extensive AJAX services, Alerts and Notifications