Gear6 Expands Management Team

Gear6, accelerating storage and delivering real time performance for the enterprise data center, today announced the expansion of its management team. R. Elliot Carpenter joins as vice president of finance and operations, and Brian S. Gladden will serve as vice president of sales. Elliot Carpenter brings solid experience in corporate finance for technology through his work as chief financial officer of Roxio, a leader in digital media software. Prior to that, he held various positions at Adaptec in Mergers and Acquisitions, Treasury and Manufacturing Operations. Elliot is a certified public accountant. As vice president of sales, Brian Gladden will direct the sales strategy and build on his past successes in delivering mainstream enterprise solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Formerly with NetApp, Gladden will drive the expansion of the company's customer base and sales channels, and move momentum across vertical markets. more »

Gear6 Secures $10 Million to Lead Charge for Data Center Acceleration

Gear6, accelerating storage and delivering real time performance, today announced a $10 million round of funding led by InterWest Partners, and joined by previous investor U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). The financing will support the market entry of Gear6 solutions, designed to address the widening gap between increasingly powerful servers and constrained, disk-based storage systems. Deployed in the data center, Gear6 products eliminate bottlenecks and deliver guaranteed performance to existing storage infrastructures. These real time capabilities speed up applications, provide protection from peak load disruptions, and improve quality of service. "Gear6 has designed a powerful technology base for solutions that remove barriers to speed and performance in the data center," said Khaled Nasr, partner at InterWest. "The management team, chosen experts in storage, networking, and enterprise software, has identified a unique and compelling approach to boost existing enterprise infrastructure and increase productivity. We're enthusiastic about the market potential and eager to advance the roll out of this innovative technology." more »

Tom Shea joins Gear6 as President and Chief Executive Officer

Gear6, creator of a powerful technology base to accelerate storage and deliver real time performance for the enterprise data center, today announced that Tom Shea has been appointed president and chief executive officer. Matt Oberdorfer, company founder, will continue as chief technology officer to expand the executive strength to take Gear6 to market on a fast track with superior technology and leadership. A seasoned executive, Shea's business background and successful leadership of storage and digital data software companies give him the perspective on the network storage universe to push Gear6 toward its market goals. "Tom brings us a perfect-storm of executive strength, engineering background and domain expertise to continue guiding the trajectory planned for Gear6," said Oberdorfer. "With Tom joining our management team, we have the right leadership to continue our growth. His ability to drive our momentum will let us quickly realize success in our market opportunity." more »

An Overview of
File Area Networks
with Brad O'Neill,
Taneja Group (16:30min)

• Celebrating Tech Anniversaries Both the 50th anniversary of the disk drive and the 25th anniversary of IBM's PC introduction are upon us...
• Simplify Much of the language focuses on 'simplifying management'...a phrase so common that I believe it has lost effectiveness...
• Service Guarantees There is plenty of current discussion about SOA, or Service Oriented Architecture...