Up to 5TB Cache offers 10 to 50 times better read/writes than mechanical disk
Seeking to alleviate the bottleneck woes of I/O-intensive apps, startup Gear6 today announced CACHEfx, a scalable cache appliance that makes as much as 5TB of cached data available to applications without having to retrieve it from storage.
The appliance, which is founded on what the company is calling "centralized storage caching," pools together a vast amount of high-speed RAM in an effort to shrink the server-storage performance gap fueled in part by the server virtualization trend.
"Server power has been increasing at an exponential rate. You've got Moore's Law, multicore CPUs, and now server virtualization making the server side increasingly powerful," said Jack O'Brien, director of marketing at Gear6. "The disk industry has done a good job increasing capacity and keeping the cost per gigabyte down, but there hasn't been a similar increase in performance in terms of IOPS and latency. This is a major bottleneck in the datacenter and is where CACHEfx fits in."
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