Gear6 Announces Industry's First Centralized Storage Caching Solution

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. more »

What is Centralized Storage Caching?

Centralized storage caching innovatively applies well-known caching concepts to modern data center architectures by keeping frequently accessed data in a very large central memory pool instead of on traditional mechanical disk drives. This enables high performance data access by avoiding time-consuming disk operations and accelerates applications due to dramatically decreased response times and increased data throughput. more »

Provisioning for Predictable Performance

Architects and operators of enterprise data centers have seen a recent increase in the tools available to provision and tune performance for business applications, particularly at the server and network layers. However, the storage layer has not reached the same adaptability leading to an imbalance crying out for attention. This paper explores current provisioning and outlines requirements to reach predictable performance in enterprise computing. more »

Recent news coverage on centralized storage caching

StorageMojo: Big network storage cache from Gear6 By focusing on building an NFS SAN cache appliance I believe Gear6 has picked a niche ripe for change. more »
Search Storage: Storage caching makes a comeback CACHEfx from Gear6 points to a growing trend in the industry for faster response time from storage. more »
ComputerWorld: Future cache For many, the disk drive has become the primary bottleneck in application performance. But things may be changing. more »
EE Times: Startup Gear6 touts RAM cache scheme Gear6 has a novel concept for boosting performance in the data center. more »
Byte and Switch: Gear6 shifts out of neutral We know there appears to be a market for any product that can significantly bump up performance of NAS. more »
ComputerWorld: Network cache paves the way through the bottleneck A start-up is preparing to ship an appliance that can place terabytes of cache in a storage network to increase data-transfer rates up to fivefold. more »
eWeek: Startup Gear6 Readies New Centralized Cache for NAS/NFS This marks the first time that high-capacity, high-performance cache can be deployed as a scalable, shared network resource. more »

Focus on
storage performance
with Tony Asaro,
Enterprise Strategy Group (23 min)

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