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Gear6 to Present at Pacific Crest Data Center 3.0 Conference

CEO Tom Shea to Showcase CACHEfx Scalable Caching Appliances; Discuss Current Trends to Solve I/O Bottlenecks

Mountain View, Calif. – February 21, 2008 – Gear6, accelerating I/O for real time application performance, will present at the Pacific Crest Data Center 3.0 conference on February 29th, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. The conference is the second day of the two-day Pacific Crest Emerging Technology Summit that provides attendees with forward-looking views into two of technology’s most rapidly changing markets: on-demand software and the data center. It includes presentations from 40 leading data center companies; an announcement of the Pacific Crest Mosaic Data Center survey results; and IT decision-maker panel discussions.

The opportunity for emerging data center technologies over the next 3-5 years is unprecedented. Most enterprises are still dependent on legacy systems or just beginning to modernize. The Pacific Crest Data Center 3.0 Conference will explore emerging technologies enabling IT transformation including:

  • Virtualization
  • Automation
  • Advanced Storage/Compute/Memory Appliances
  • Green IT & Grid Clustering
  • Web 2.0 Infrastructure Automation

Who: Tom Shea, president and CEO at Gear6.

What: Mr. Shea will discuss current trends causing I/O bottlenecks and the ways to resolve them. Specifically, he will cover the use of scalable caching appliances to identify and fix I/O problems, and the role they play in dramatically improving application performance and significantly reducing overall infrastructure cost.

When: Friday, Feb. 29

Where: Pacific Crest Data Center 3.0 Conference, Fairmont Hotel in
San Francisco, CA

About Gear6

Gear6 provides massively scalable, centralized storage caching solutions for organizations relying on the high-speed delivery of data to clustered and other I/O intensive applications. By eliminating shared I/O bottlenecks, Gear6 appliances accelerate data center I/O performance and increase server utilization levels to help companies maximize storage and server investments. Gear6 provides unprecedented visibility into how application workloads are influenced by server virtualization, clustered computing and web-scale environments to dynamically improve and manage sustainable I/O performance, even under peak load conditions. The company’s CACHEfx appliances provide real-time data delivery to Fortune 1000 customers in industries ranging from financial services to energy to animation. For more information, go to http://www.gear6.com.