Industry Researcher TheInfoPro™ Confirms Increased Demand for Greater I/O Performance for Server Virtualization
The ability to deliver sustainable I/O performance ensures application performance can be optimized, peak load demands can be met, and server utilization can be maximized. Gear6 delivers scalable caching appliances that provide such a solution through high capacity, high speed cache memory that is shared as a centralized network resource. Please read this white paper to learn more about how Gear6 centralized storage caching solutions can help you address the industry-wide need for accelerated and sustainable I/O performance within existing server and storage infrastructures. more »
New Analyst Report from Enterprise Strategy Group — "Gear6 CACHEfx: Fast Cache and Smart I/O"
Gear6’s CACHEfx is a unique solution providing a network-based intelligent caching appliance that combines sophisticated software for efficient cache algorithms and clustering technology to significantly improve throughput and IOPS performance for NAS environments." Please read this white paper from Tony Asaro of Enterprise Strategy Group to learn more about CACHEfx scalable caching appliances and how centralized storage caching can help you understand, improve, and manage performance. more »
Gear6 Establishes Precedent-Setting I/O Performance To Scale Existing And Future Compute Clusters To New Heights
These achievements demonstrate the unique ability of centralized storage caching to keep pace with demanding aggregate I/O requirements of massive compute grids for a range of workload profiles. Throughput testing of the CACHEfx appliance achieved precedent-setting 872,291 IOPS with an average response time of 0.53 milliseconds and sustained bandwidth of 2.8GB per second. Bandwidth intensive testing achieved a sustained 5GB per second while delivering 162,292 IOPS. These test results provide critical documentation as to how the CACHEfx appliance can accelerate a wide range of applications in high performance computing environments. more »
Gear6 Showcases Centralized Storage Caching for Database Acceleration at Oracle Open World
Gear6, accelerating storage for real time application performance, showcased its centralized storage caching solutions for database acceleration at Oracle Open World, Nov 12-16, in San Francisco. The company also distributed an exclusive technical paper at the show, Accelerating Oracle Databases with Direct NFS and Centralized Storage Caching. more »
Recent News: Media Coverage on Centralized Storage Caching
10 Disruptive New Storage Technologies Promise Big Changes Fresh ideas bringing much-improved hardware and software to all sectors of the data storage market. eWeek
Caching Strategies: Leveraging Caching To Improve Data Center Performance The ever-growing demands on modern data centers, however, are driving the development of memory-based caching appliances that can improve data center performance in the face of increased loads. Processor.com
Ending the Application Waiting Game Ironically, despite the enormous processing speed and advanced capabilities of robust application server platforms, often times these systems have to wait to process and deliver data from underlying disk-based storage. Enterprise Networks and Servers
Virtualization - Overcome the input /output pitfalls While consolidated server deployments in a virtualized server environment can crank up utilization rates, this practice also allows large numbers of clients (real and virtual) to access data simultaneously on a single storage system. Communication News
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Overcoming Virtualization I/O Pitfalls Gear6 continues to see many scenarios where customers are anxious to deploy server virtualization but have not always considered the I/O implications.
