GX Technology Selects Gear6 Scalable Caching Appliances to Accelerate Seismic Imaging Applications

Gear6, accelerating storage for real time application performance, today announced that GX Technology (GXT), a leading provider of advanced seismic imaging solutions to oil and gas companies worldwide, is deploying its CACHEfx scalable caching appliances to accelerate strategic seismic data processing applications and streamline infrastructure management. The Gear6 centralized storage caching solution, which integrated transparently into GXT’s infrastructure, helps to streamline and significantly reduce the turnaround time for projects that rely on these input/output intensive applications. With thousands of processing nodes and nearly a petabyte of seismic storage, the demanding GXT data and application environment showcases the ability of CACHEfx appliances to power extremely large workloads and data sets. more »

Visit the Gear6 booth #3671 at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Find out how Gear6 can help you slash seismic processing time and eliminate I/O bottlenecks. Stop by the Gear6 booth and also receive an invitation to our happy hour event on Tuesday night, with customers and Gear6 representatives.more »

CACHEfx Scalable Caching Appliances from Gear6 Deployed at Sony Pictures Imageworks to Accelerate Image Rendering Applications

Gear6, accelerating storage for real time application performance, today announced that Sony Pictures Imageworks is deploying its CACHEfx scalable caching appliances to dramatically accelerate image rendering for digital film production. Imageworks selected the Gear6 centralized caching solution because it delivers I/O response times under one half of a millisecond for applications running on thousands of processors. The Gear6 solution also easily fits into Imageworks’ existing environment, reducing the need for data replication while simplifying storage tiers. This enhances the flexibility and manageability of Imageworks’ storage infrastructure. more »

Gear6 Joins EMC Partner Program

Gear6 recently joined the EMC Technology and ISV Partner Program, and invites customers using Celerra NAS solutions to contact Gear6 for more information. more »

Recent News: Coverage on Centralized Storage Caching

Scaling Content Delivery for IPTV and WebTV Centralized storage caching solution delivers digital content quicker for on-demand WebTV and IPTV. -Converge Digest  more »

Delivering Capacity and Performance Centralized storage caching and global namespaces work together. -Communication News  more »

Building an Accelerated Archive Combining large capacity, ready access, and instant acceleration for digital content repositories. -Computer Technology Review  more »

Gear6 Satiates Hungry Apps with 500GB RAM Monster Gear6 fits into that elite, blissful class of start-ups that have an easy to digest premise and infrastructure-friendly gear. -The Register   more »

Gear6 Touts Storage Caching Appliances The company has developed a new line of massive caching appliances to help IT groups avoid over-engineering their environments to meet application performance requirements. -InfoStor   more »

Gear6 Aims to Speed Storage Access When there's a lot of data fetching, the speed of the storage system is critical, and in most cases, currently inadequate. Gear6 thinks it can help. -InfoWeek  more »

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Storage Meets
App Performance
with Mike Vizard, eWeek (18 min)

• What is Performance?
  Performance is a loaded term, and often means different things to different people. Gear6 is very focused on delivering the maximum performance to accelerate storage, and also to improve application servers by guaranteeing access to enough I/O Operations per Second so they can keep humming along.
• Global Filesystem > Global Wait? Global file systems are an excellent solution for managing large capacity storage deployments. There are multiple advantages to having a single file and directory structure that can be centrally managed. The tradeoff is that as directories get larger, it takes longer for the file system to locate and access data.
  
• Virtualmania!
  As if the stratospheric rise of VMware's IPO wasn't enough yesterday, today we hear that Citrix has purchased XenSource for $500 million. We are clearly in the eye of the Virtualmania storm!