Gear6 Expands Market Reach With New, Entry-Level Centralized Storage Caching Appliance

The CACHEfx G100 expands the reach of centralized storage caching to a broader customer base in need of rebalancing their existing storage configurations to lower total system costs, increase I/O performance, reduce rack space, and cut expensive energy consumption. This product delivers the same feature set and capabilities as the full CACHEfx product line in a more compact and lower cost configuration. The new appliance is designed for customers requiring moderate bandwidth and cache capacity looking to cut costs and simplify configurations for performance oriented storage. more »

Gear6 Launches ‘Accelerate’ Channel Partner Program

Gear6, accelerating I/O for real time application performance, today announced the launch of its Accelerate Partner Program (APP), a new channel initiative that has already attracted 11 charter partners covering North America. Each APP partner has extensive data center expertise delivering best-in- class solutions for accelerated application performance and optimized storage deployments that now include Gear6 CACHEfx appliances. The APP offers channel partners exceptional revenue opportunities by helping their customers understand, improve, and manage application performance in business critical data centers. more »

Gear6 Unveils Enhanced Software Capabilities of CACHEfx Appliance to Better Analyze and Improve Data Center I/O Performance

Gear6, accelerating storage for real time application performance, today announced a powerful suite of tools to understand, improve, and manage I/O performance. Reflex OS, powering CACHEfx™ scalable caching appliances, provides a centralized view of data traffic between NFS clients and servers. As a result, system administrators now have unprecedented visibility into workload profiles to diagnose performance problems and also correct them. Typically, profiling tools are restricted to identifying performance issues but require separate problem resolution through manual intervention. With its combination of fine grained statistics and intelligent caching, the CACHEfx appliance uniquely integrates the ability to identify and fix I/O performance problems on the fly. more »

Gear6 Video: Top 10 Signs of I/O Bottlenecks

How do you identify I/O bottlenecks? We put together a short video that outlines a few of the primary symptoms. Of course, it is not an exact science, and often involves a combination of intuition and measurement, but this list will get you off to a good start. more »

Gear6 Video: Top 6 Ways to Cut Storage Costs

We talk a lot about performance at Gear6. But equally important to the performance angle of scalable caching appliances is the opportunity to reduce storage costs. We put together this short video to outline the cost-saving advantages of scalable caching appliances. more »

Recent News: Media Coverage on Centralized Storage Caching

Gear6 accelerates data transmission Enterprise managers struggling with the toxic mix of too many servers and insufficient storage that culminate in serious data bottlenecks appear to have a savior. eChannel Line

2008 Forecast: Mapping Your Data Center Caching Strategy Centralized caching is a new model for deploying memory in the data center that brings all the benefits of cache without the limitations of current approaches. Computer Technology Review

Gear6 updates software to tackle bottlenecks The latest release of the company's Reflex OS operating system features a suite of integrated profiling and analysis tools. InfoStor

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