Gear6 Web Cache Used by Fastest Growing Social Media Sites To Lower Costs and Increase Scalability With Memcached
Gear6 Web Cache Used by Fastest Growing Social Media Sites To Lower Costs and Increase Scalability With Memcached
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – April 20, 2009 - Gear6 (www.Gear6.com), which is unveiling its product line at the MySQL Conference today, announced that several of the fastest growing social media sites are using Gear6 Web Cache to reduce the overall cost of Memcached deployments, to improve site performance by ensuring continuous data availability, and to better plan and scale Memcached operations through greater manageability.
“Gear6 has spent the past year developing and deploying a solution to help leading media, content aggregation and social networking sites reduce the expense of running their Memcached infrastructure by more than 80%,” said Tom Shea, CEO of Gear6. “Today’s launch highlights the real progress we’re making with customers, as we see significant repeatable demand from web developers and publishers for a more efficient, scalable way of using Memcached.”
Answers Corporation, MyYearBook and Veoh are among the first customers to have purchased and used in production Gear6 Web Cache after an extensive beta testing program.
“Our two web properties, Answers.com and WikiAnswers.com, serve more than 25 million unique U.S. users each month,” said Dan Marriott, Director of Production Operations for Answers Corporation. “We have experienced a dramatic rise in our web traffic over the past year. To help meet that growth, we’ve had to considerably increase the number of Memcached servers we’ve deployed. Gear6 Web Cache directly addressed our very pressing cost and reliability concerns about scaling and growing our sites. Gear6 Web Cache reduces the number of Memcached servers by a factor of 6. In addition, we anticipate an additional savings of 65% in operational costs for our critical Memcached function over the next 3 years.”
“myYearbook.com is the third-largest and fastest-growing online social network in the United States,” said Jeremy Stinson, VP of Network Operations at myYearbook.com. “As we continue our explosive growth, we needed a way to reduce the number of Memcached servers and improve manageability so we can better plan out how we scale. Memcached is the best solution for deploying a distributed caching tier, and Gear6 takes us to the next level of cost savings and manageability.”
“The growing popularity of Veoh Video Compass - a browser plug-in that enables video to be played while on every major search engine, portal and commerce site - requires that Veoh’s web site scale efficiently and reliably,” said Simon Ferrett, Lead Operations Engineer at Veoh.com. “Veoh tested Gear6 Web Cache for several months and found that Gear6 is a proven solution for saving money and ensuring maximum availability of our Memcached services.”
Gear6 is unveiling the Gear6 Web Cache solution today at the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara, CA, where they are exhibiting at booth #218.
More information on Gear6 and Web Cache can be found at their new website http://www.gear6.com/, or on their Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/memcached.
About Gear6
Gear6 is the first and leading provider of scalable Memcached solutions, enabling high-growth media, social networking and content aggregation web sites to deliver and scale dynamic applications and content. By focusing on the emerging need for a dedicated web caching tier, Gear6 solutions dramatically improve the scalability of web applications and databases, improving quality of service and reducing infrastructure cost. Gear6's flagship offering is Gear6 Web Cache, a Memcached protocol-compliant solution that enables web site developers and operators to scale web services and applications, to save money, rack space, power and time, to protect users and sites from failures and traffic spikes, and to manage all aspects of caching operations. Gear6 corporate headquarters are in Mountain View, California. The company is privately held with investments from U.S. Venture Partners, InterWest and Horizon.
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