Introducing CACHEfxScalable Caching Appliances

February 2008

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Current Trends Creating I/O Bottlenecks

Current trends driving Current trends driving painful storage problemspainful storage problems

Storage bottleneck trendsStorage bottleneck trends• Shared I/O applicationsShared I/O applications• File-content explosionFile-content explosion• Server virtualizationServer virtualization• Web-scale applicationsWeb-scale applications• Oracle on NFS/DirectNFSOracle on NFS/DirectNFS

Traditional solutions are no longer effective• Disk over provisioning• Server or subsystem caching

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A New Approach: Centralized Storage Caching

» Dramatically increase performance

• IOPS, low latency, throughput

» Reduce over-provisioning• Less power, space,

cooling

» Guarantee service levels» Install seamlessly

• Maintain storage processes (snapshots, mirroring, archive)

» Scale as a shared network resource

Cached data servedCached data served10-50x faster from memory10-50x faster from memory

Clustered File SystemGear6Scalable Caching Appliance

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Introducing CACHEfx Scalable Caching Appliances

Use high-speed memory to overcome disk-based IOPS and latency limitations

Accelerate data center systems and applications by seamlessly eliminating I/O bottlenecks

» Fit existing infrastructure» Initial focus on NAS/NFS» Enhance clustered file systems

» Deliver true performance» Low latency» High IOPS» and high throughput

» Support thousands of clients

» Scale to multiple terabytes

» Close the performance gap

ScalableCachingAppliances

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What Customers Are Saying About Gear6

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Accelerating I/O for real time application performanceAccelerating I/O for real time application performance

“The CACHEfx appliance was very simple to deploy and we quickly saw performance jump through the roof.

»Sony Pictures Imageworks

CACHEfx appliances greatly simplify data management and allow us to do things with network attached storage that we could not do before.

»GX Technology

The scalability and fault tolerant design of the CACHEfx appliance were very attractive features for us, and it was straightforward to integrate the system into our complex environment.

»D.E. Shaw

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