Mountain View, CA — April 5, 2007 — Gear6, accelerating storage for real time application performance, today announced that it has been named as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 North American private companies playing a leading role in innovation and technology. The Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial landscape throughout the North American region and identified the top 200 companies, out of more than 800 under evaluation that are leading the next wave of innovation across multiple technology sectors.
“We can see the exciting evolution of the technology sector reflected in the quality and variety of exceptional companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together," said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring. "It was tough to choose just 200 finalists from such a large list of excellent contenders, and we are very happy with the qualities of the companies we selected as Finalists."
The winning 100 companies will be announced at the Red Herring 100 Spring event on May 1-3 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Monterey, Calif. The CEOs of the winners will present their innovative ideas and technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs, financiers, and corporate strategists. This year's Red Herring 100 Spring event marks the tenth anniversary of the Red Herring 100 Awards.
“We are pleased that Gear6 has been recognized for its unique solution that dramatically improves storage performance through centralized storage caching, said Gary Orenstein, vice president of marketing at Gear6. “Our innovative approach helps customers instantly accelerate I/O-constrained applications while seamlessly complementing their existing storage infrastructure, a preferred choice compared to other disruptive options."
Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at http://www.redherring.com.
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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