Gear6 Announces Industry's First Centralized Storage Caching Solution for Accelerating Data Center Systems and Applications
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Scalable caching appliances eliminate the server-storage performance gap and deliver real time data access
MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 17 -- Gear6, accelerating storage for real time application performance, today announced the industry's first centralized storage caching solution, a truly unique innovation for the data center. The appliance-based solution closes the performance gap created by decades of server and CPU advances that have left disk data access -- a mechanical process -- far behind. The Gear6 solution provides unmatched I/O throughput, reduces disk access time from milliseconds to microseconds, and scales to terabytes of capacity. This new approach complements existing NAS/NFS deployments and installs transparently in the data center without requiring changes to current applications or infrastructure. Gear6 centralized caching solutions deliver dramatic performance benefits, reduce the need to over-provision storage, and provide protection from peak load disruptions.
"The business goals of almost every strategic IT initiative are to improve performance and user experience while reducing costs and complexity," said Michael Dortch, Principal Business Analyst, and IT Infrastructure Management Practice Leader at Robert Frances Group. "The innovative shared network caching offered by Gear6 helps enterprises to achieve these goals by overcoming the latency and throughput constraints of traditional disk-based storage systems. In addition, the Gear6 solution interoperates seamlessly with incumbent data center infrastructures, maximizing business benefits while minimizing operational disruption and additional complexity. Such features should appeal to almost any organization that relies upon IT to do business -- which today is almost every enterprise."
This announcement marks the first time that high capacity, high performance cache can be deployed as a scalable shared network resource. Until now data center managers were unable to overcome the inherent capacity constraints and limited sharing capabilities of existing approaches such as server or storage device caching. Centralizing cache allows data to be accessed and shared by multiple applications and hundreds, or even thousands of clients. Gear6 solutions dramatically accelerate applications across the data center while simplifying architectures and reducing the compounding costs of over-provisioned storage.
"Gear6 technology not only delivers dramatic performance benefits, it does so in a way that does not upset existing infrastructure," said Tom Shea, President and CEO of Gear6. "By seamlessly complementing any NFS-based storage system we have made it as easy as possible for customers to take advantage of our solution."
Centralized storage caching fits a broad range of applications and industries. Any application that is I/O intensive or requires rapid data access will realize immediate performance improvements and improved quality of service. Transaction processing and other database workloads are extremely well suited for Gear6 acceleration as they require a large amount of throughput, have stringent latency requirements, and often experience heavy peak loads. Leading companies in data intensive industries such as energy and exploration, media delivery, biotechnology and animation will also benefit from this solution.
Gear6 products are currently in beta testing and general availability will be announced in the coming months. For a limited time Gear6 is offering a complimentary acceleration analysis for customers interested in tangible evidence of centralized storage caching benefits. 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 centralized caching solutions address the widening performance gap between increasingly powerful servers and lagging mechanical storage devices, delivering scalable and transparent storage acceleration to mainstream enterprises. Gear6 solutions accelerate existing storage infrastructure for real time performance, eliminate bottlenecks, and guarantee transaction response times. These real time capabilities speed up applications, provide protection from peak load disruptions, and improve quality of service.
For more information call 877-GEAR-SIX (432-7749), email info@gear6.com or visit www.gear6.com.
Source: Gear6
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