Mountain View, Calif. – August 20, 2008 – Gear6, a leading provider of scalable caching appliances that accelerate application file performance, today announced that it has been named as a winner of the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the top 100 North American private companies playing a leading role in innovation and technology. Red Herring's editorial staff chose the winners after rigorously evaluating some 1200 private companies through a careful analysis of various criteria including financial data, quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.
“This year's impressive list of finalists demonstrates that North American companies continue to raise the bar and produce innovative technologies that benefit the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Editor-in-Chief Joel Dreyfuss. “The exceptional accomplishments of these technology startups are a testament to extraordinary technological innovation and the drive to bring products to fruition.”
Gear6 delivers scalable caching appliances that dramatically increase data center application performance while simultaneously reducing total storage costs. The company’s CACHEfx products maximize I/O operations per second with extremely low latency to accelerate data intensive applications. The appliances scale to multiple terabytes of capacity and attach to the network, enhancing traditional Network Attached Storage (NAS) deployments and clustered file systems. Serving requests from high-speed memory provides applications a massive throughput increase and real time access to data. Large files, data sets, and entire databases are reliably cached to accelerate I/O performance between 10 and 50 times faster than conventional mechanical disk-based solutions.
“Being recognized as a 2008 Red Herring 100 Award winner is a significant validation of our approach to optimizing I/O performance for modern data center architectures,” said Tom Shea, president and chief executive officer of Gear6. “Our recognition as a winner coincides with the growing need among web-scale and enterprise organizations for scalable, centralized caching solutions.”
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 www.redherring.com.
Gear6 delivers scalable, centralized caching solutions that dramatically improve application performance while reducing total storage costs. 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/
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