Memcached Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) White Paper

Read how Gear6 Web Cache yields lower costs for your cache tier, with increased memory utilization, flash addressability and high availability. Results include lower expenditures in rack space, equipment, power, and data center operations.

The open-source distributed memory caching system Memcached has grown rapidly as a way for operators and developers of complex web sites to scale their sites. Gear6 offers an enhanced, protocol-compliant Memcached solution called Gear6 Web Cache, which offers all the benefits of Memcached along with significant advantages in scalability, high availability, cost, efficiency, and manageability. This white paper quantifies these advantages through a comparison of two deployment scenarios. It focuses on three of the most important cost areas related to web caching: equipment purchase and data center operational costs, cost related to failures and/or high availability, and costs related to cache tier management. Gear6 yields substantial TCO benefits in each area.