Accelerate your site and simplify cache management.

Gear6 Web Cache is an advanced, protocol-compliant Memcached solution with a lower TCO that enables web site developers and operators to quickly scale web services and applications.

Learn how Gear6 Web Cache can help you to:

Scale
your web site, applications, and architecture Save
money, rack space, power and time Protect
your users' experiences and site's performance at all times
Manage
all aspects of Memcached operations

Scale your Web site, applications, and architecture

Successfully, predictably and reliably scaling a complex website is a challenge. Gear6 Web Cache lets you fully leverage Memcached and makes website scaling considerably easier through a number of innovative capabilities:

• High-density memory architecture allows you to deploy very large amounts of Memcached while minimizing cost, rack space and power requirements. Gear6 Web Cache enables hybrid cache architectures that incorporate both high-speed DRAM and large amounts of economical flash memory. Very large amounts of Memcached memory can be deployed per unit of rack space, providing DRAM-level cache performance without increasing latency.
• High availability built into Gear6 Web Cache means you can safely scale your site without introducing availability concerns. Continuous service availability is provided through a clustered architecture with fail-over capabilities, and built-in cache data replication means you can also assure continuous data availability if needed.
• Management and reporting features of Gear6 Web Cache make it easy for you to view, understand, manage and scale all aspects of your Memcached operations.

Save money, rack space, power and time

Besides allowing you to easily and quickly scale your web site using Memcached, Gear6 Web Cache provides substantial cost, rack space, power and time savings, achieved through a range of advanced Gear6 technologies:

• High-density DRAM-Flash hybrid media support allows the combined use of high-speed DRAM and economical flash memory. This architecture allows the deployment of large amounts of Memcached per unit of rack space, while still providing high performance.
• Optimized memory allocation algorithms that are built into Gear6 Web Cache offer greater efficiency and improved performance. Gear6 Web Cache provides enhanced slab management, eviction and object size capabilities superior to those found in standard Memcached deployments.
• Memory health monitoring and de-allocation are also standard with Gear6 Web Cache, and constantly monitor the health and performance of both DRAM and flash memory, proactively de-allocating blocks that may fail in order to prevent service interruptions or slowdowns.

Protect Your Users' Experiences & Site Performance

Memcached produces dramatic increases in web site performance, so it has quickly become mission-critical to operators of most large web sites. Even the temporary loss of Memcached services can cause serious disruption to users, not to mention lingering performance impacts as new cache resources are brought online and are loaded with cache data. Gear6 Web Cache introduces a number of technologies to address these issues:

• Continuous service availability is provided by a clustered architecture with fail-over capabilities, so that cache services are not interrupted when failures occur. In typical Memcached deployments, the failure of a cache hardware module often causes its IP address to vanish, and a ripple effect of delays and failures can easily occur. By distributing cache services across multiple modules with fail-over, Gear6 Web Cache eliminates this problem.
• Continuous data availability is provided for cases where cache data rebuild time might be unacceptably long. Gear6 Web Cache data replication ensures that all cache data is always available in an alternate location, and continues to be served to users without interruption or delay. Spikes in database and application load are avoided.
• No client-side code modifications enables fast deployment. If you use Memcached today, you’re ready for Gear6 Web Cache. Because it is 100% Memcached protocol-compliant, the calls you already make to Memcached will seamlessly provide the density, high availability and the other benefits of Gear6 Web Cache.
• Disruption-free software upgrades are easy with Gear6 Web Cache. Software upgrades are easily scheduled, initiated, tracked and completed without taking down cache resources.

Manage Your Memcached operations

Typical Memcached deployments tend to operate without providing much visibility into the caching tier of your architecture. Gear6 Web Cache is fully instrumented and equipped with intuitive interfaces that let you see what’s happening at multiple levels within your Memcached tier, so that you can make better architectural and investment decisions.

• Physical and logical aggregation and drill-downs let you view your entire Memcached infrastructure at a single glance, or identify and “drill down” on any aspect of Memcached operations to whatever level of detail is desired. This is extremely valuable for considering additional investments in Memcached.
• Hot key, client and instance reporting are provided through Gear6 Advanced Reporter, letting you easily see, for example, the top n keys in your caching tier, or the top n keys for any Memcached instance or client. This information is useful for load balancing and architectural decisions.
• Centralized management and administration allow you to use the insight gained from Gear6 reporting tools to adjust, fine-tune and scale your caching tier.