Menlo Park, CA — January 23, 2007 — Gear6, accelerating storage for real time application performance, today announced the public release of its NEMo performance analyzer for customers to gauge the acceleration benefits of centralized storage caching. NEMo is a simple, lightweight software script that uses existing Unix and Linux tools to measure application data patterns and the suitability for acceleration.
“NEMo helps pinpoint storage bottlenecks,” says Tony Asaro, senior analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group. “Gear6 has taken a unique approach to enterprise storage performance improvement by making this publicly available. Understanding application data profiles is a tricky business. The Gear6 NEMo software confirms and highlights specific patterns that are well suited for performance improvements with centralized storage caching. Application performance is essential to business and yet there are so few tools in the market that give us insight on how to optimize it.”
Assessing application data profiles using NEMo delivers tremendous customer benefits, including:
Speedy results with no risk - NEMo enables IT managers to perform test runs without any disruption to existing environments. These tests, coupled with analysis by Gear6, showcase the immediate performance improvement potential of centralized storage caching.
Tailored results - Because NEMo runs at customer sites and on production systems if available, results are tailored to those specific applications and configurations. This provides customers with valuable insight to application data patterns.
Simple - NEMo is a lightweight PERL script that is easy to download and run. The collector portion of NEMo uses two standard Unix/Linux tools, tcpdump and nfsstat.
Secure - NEMo strips all customer-specific information from the output, ensuring that no intellectual property or confidential data is recorded.
Figure 1 shows a portion of a sample NEMo report, which includes a breakdown of NFS commands both by data volume and number of operations
Gear6 products eliminate I/O bottlenecks caused by the increasing processing power of servers and CPUs that outstrip the inherent limitations of slower, mechanical disks. With centralized storage caching, customers increase storage performance through the use of high-speed, high-capacity memory-based caching solutions. This heterogeneous approach works with all existing NFS-based storage equipment and operating systems, requires no additional changes to current infrastructure, and provides a dramatic performance increases in both throughput and response times.
NEMo is also available for resellers to use with customers, and for Independent Software Vendors to integrate with existing tools.
Gear6 centralized caching solutions address the widening performance gap between increasingly powerful servers and lagging mechanical storage devices, delivering scalable and transparent storage acceleration to mainstream enterprises. Gear6 solutions accelerate existing storage infrastructure for real time application performance, eliminate bottlenecks, and guarantee transaction response times. These real time capabilities speed up applications, provide protection from peak load disruptions, and improve quality of service.
For more information call 877-GEAR-SIX (432-7749), email contact2@gear6.com or visit www.gear6.com.
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