Why Customers Use the Gear6 Memcached Distribution: Web Cache
Server Consolidation, Lower TCO, High Availability and more.
The following case studies and customer descriptions are samples of some of the customers for whom Gear6 has provided solutions in content aggregation, media, hosting, gaming and social networking.
We at Gear6 are fortunate to have had wide and strong acceptance to Gear6 Web Cache. We are even more fortunate to have customers willing to share with others their specific challenges and how those were overcome with our products. These case studies serve as excellent references not only for Gear6 but also for other web sites facing similar challenges.
Customer Case Study: Answers Corporation
With 51 Million visitors monthly, according to Quantcast, Answers.com is the #16 website globally. View this case study to find out how Answers was able to significantly consolidate their Memcached tier and scale its web properties with a high‐density, highly available memcached tier with Gear6 Web Cache.
Customer: Blue Box Group
Blue Box Group provides easy, affordable and reliable hosting solutions, from web hosting to dedicated servers, focusing on scalable ruby on rails deployments. Their large dedicated server clusters take millions of hits a day - and Gear6 provides mission critical Memcached services for Blue Box Group. Gear6 Web Cache allows them to provide consistent uptime and high performance of Memcached for their customer websites.
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Bowker streamlines its web caching tier with the Enhanced Memcached Solutions from Gear6. The Syndetic Solutions business unit slashes management time and expense by replacing sixty virtual Memcached servers.
Customer Case Study: Glam Media
Glam Media reduces cost, increases scalability, decreases TCO and boosts reliability with Gear6 Web Cache. Glam Media is a pioneering vertical content network, with content from over 1,500 publishers being viewed by over 115 million unique visitors per month. It was the second-fastest-growing US-based Web property in 2008, increasing its unique visitor count by 144% during the year.
"We’ve made extensive use of Memcached for years, but for our latest project we selected Gear6 Web Cache for its fault tolerance, large object size capability, and operational visibility. We’re now in production and everything is working so well that we expect to eventually replace all Jigsaw uses of Memcached with Gear6 Web Cache. I absolutely recommend Gear6 Web Cache." - Pawan Nachnani, Architect, Jigsaw
Customer: MyYearbook.com
“MyYearbook.com is the third-largest and fastest-growing online social network in the United States. As we continue our explosive growth, we needed a way to reduce the number of memcached servers and improve manageability so we can better plan out how we scale. Memcached is the best solution for deploying a distributed caching tier, and Gear6 takes us to the next level of cost savings and manageability.” - Jeremy Stinson, VP of Network Operations at myYearbook.com.
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Customer: Travis Software
Employee benefits administration leader Travis Software needed to update its infrastructure - without adding more to its two data centers. With Gear6 Web Cache, Travis was able to consolidate 10 servers across the data centers and gained significant performance improvement. Gear6 enables Travis to decrease server footprint yet yield a performance boost that increases application responsiveness.
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Gear6 Web Cache allows web video leader Veoh to rely on cached data for mission‐critical services like its User Targeting System, which can now flexibly and cost effectively scale with an enhanced Memcached solution.
