Galder Zamarreno gave a presentation on Infinispan, an open source data grid platform designed for cloud computing. He discussed how traditional databases do not work well in cloud environments due to their stateful and failure-prone nature. Data grids are better suited as they are highly scalable, have no single point of failure, and work with ephemeral cloud nodes. Infinispan is a new data grid that improves on an earlier product, JBoss Cache, with a more scalable architecture and features like a simple map API, client/server support, and integration with Hibernate and Lucene. Future plans for Infinispan include enhanced replication, distributed execution capabilities, and support for cloud-based data