We’re particularly excited to announce today's roll out of the first Memcached-as-a-Service offering to Blue Box Group clients. We first partnered with Blue Box Group in May of last year to create such an offering specific to running and managing Rail applications in the cloud, with a private beta launched shortly thereafter. Now it's time to bring this joint MaaS solution to everyone using Blue Box Group's hosting services.
Tuesday we announced the availability of the software only version of the Gear6 platform. Traditionally we’ve packed our software, which is an enhanced version of Memcached, with an industry standard computing platform. For those wondering why we chose to release just the software it boils down to nothing but customer choice. For various reasons (existing vendor relationships, hardware
By now, you’ve probably seen this Q&A in eWeek with our new Director of Community, Mark Atwood. We're excited to have Mark on board, and thought we'd share our own Q&A with him.
Memcached is a great innovation for the dynamic web. It gives high trafficked website better performance by caching dynamic content in memory for rapid access. Its an awesome piece of software but has some limitations if its to be used for mission critical applications. Gear6 addresses this by taking standard Memcached and adding features to address high availability, scaling, reliability, and manageability concerns. Check out these features with our new Gear6 Web Cache Virtual Appliance download
