Caching Appliances accelerate data-intensive applications.
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Eliminating I/O bottlenecks and hotspots, CACHEfx(TM) terabyte-scale caching products hasten throughput for cross-industry enterprise applications. They deploy transparently in data center and preserve current infrastructure, applications, file systems, and storage management software. Complementing existing NAS, solutions support baseline of 250,000 I/O Operations per Second (IOPS), 16 Gbps throughput, and sub-millisecond response times. They scale linearly to handle millions of IOPS.
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Gear6 Unveils Industry's First Terabyte-Scale Caching Appliances to Accelerate Data Intensive Applications
Leading Enterprises Deploy Centralized Storage Caching for Immediate Performance and Productivity Gains
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 14 -- Gear6, accelerating storage for real time application performance, today unveiled the CACHEfx(TM) line of scalable caching appliances, the world's first terabyte-scale caching products that dramatically accelerate response times and throughput for a wide variety of demanding, cross-industry enterprise applications. Available now, CACHEfx appliances complement existing network attached storage (NAS) by centralizing a massive pool of coherent memory that serves data 10-to-50 times faster than mechanical disks, eliminating I/O bottlenecks and "hotspots." Gear6 centralized storage caching solutions deploy transparently in the data center and preserve current infrastructure, applications, file systems, and storage management software. Leading enterprise organizations are deploying centralized storage caching solutions from Gear6 to achieve significant performance gains, protect existing investments, avoid over-provisioning, and guarantee high quality-of-service.
The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm widely recognized as a pioneer in computational finance, implements quantitative models that attempt to maximize expected returns while controlling risk using applications demanding real-time performance for time-sensitive investment opportunities.
"We expect centralized storage caching from Gear6 to improve the response time of our software dramatically by increasing effective file server throughput, particularly during periods of peak utilization," said Peter Reiss, senior vice president of technology at the D. E. Shaw group. "The scalability and fault tolerant design of the CACHEfx appliance were very attractive features for us, and it was straightforward to integrate the system into our complex environment."
Centralized storage caching extends to nearly all I/O intensive applications and those requiring immediate data access such as databases and transaction processing. Leading companies in electronic design, energy and exploration, media delivery, and animation are benefiting from this solution.
"Application performance is something that we as an industry don't talk enough about," said Tony Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Often IT groups will over engineer their environments in order to meet application performance requirements because otherwise the business suffers. However, this approach results in greater cost and complexity. Gear6 provides an intelligent, network-based caching appliance to reduce storage costs and simplify performance management. They take a unique and extremely smart approach to solving this hidden and costly problem in the data center."
CACHEfx appliances support a baseline of 250,000 I/O Operations per Second (IOPS), 16 Gigabits per second of throughput, sub-millisecond response time and scale linearly to handle millions of IOPS. The Reflex OS(TM) virtualizes appliance memory into a scalable coherent cache pool, optimizes data delivery through parallel I/O channels, and provides robust intelligent cache services. Initial products support NFS and include intuitive browser based management tools for comprehensive statistics and I/O profiling.
"Centralized storage caching will play a vital role in resolving the storage performance gap that exists in many data centers," said Tom Shea, president and CEO of Gear6. "Our CACHEfx appliances seamlessly augment broadly deployed NFS-based storage, quickly delivering both performance and cost-saving benefits to our customers."
For More Information
CACHEfx centralized storage caching solutions are available now starting at $400,000. For a limited time Gear6 is offering customers a complimentary acceleration analysis to pinpoint specific performance benefits of scalable caching appliances. To contact a Gear6 representative or to request an acceleration analysis please visit: www.gear6.com/ or contact us at: accelerate1@gear6.com or 877-GEAR-SIX (432-7749).
About Gear6
Gear6 delivers the industry's first centralized storage caching solutions that close the widening performance gap between increasingly powerful servers and lagging mechanical storage devices. By transparently delivering scalable, real time data access, Gear6 eliminates productivity-killing I/O bottlenecks and delivers guaranteed transaction response times optimized for time- sensitive Fortune 1000 enterprises. The company's CACHEfx appliances accelerate business critical applications, protect against peak load disruptions and maximize quality of service levels.
CONTACT: Kevin Gallagher of Gallagher Group Communications, +1-925-831-1041, kevin@gg-comm.com, for Gear6
