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By: Is the End Nigh for Database Appliances?: Cloud Computing News «

Is the End Nigh for Database Appliances?: Cloud Computing News « — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:40:58 +0000

[...] Schooner also learned a lesson from one-time competitor Gear6, which launched its own memcached-based appliance just a week after Schooner made its debut. Gear6 went belly-up in early 2010 and ended up selling its assets to flash leader Violin Memory. [...]

By: What’s Up at Gear6? Nothing Good, We Hear - A Collection of Latest Happening in Technology Field

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:34:35 +0000

[...] a Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of Memcached-based appliances for the cloud, seems to have hit hard times, as it’s filed for [...]

By: What’s Up at Gear6? Nothing Good, We Hear | Gadget Public Informations

What’s Up at Gear6? Nothing Good, We Hear | Gadget Public Informations — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:34:00 +0000

[...] a Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of Memcached-based appliances for the cloud, seems to have hit hard times, as it’s filed for [...]

By: What’s Up at Gear6? Nothing Good, We Hear

What’s Up at Gear6? Nothing Good, We Hear — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:46:28 +0000

[...] 26, 2010, 10:45am PDT No Comments 0 Gear6, a Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of Memcached-based appliances for the cloud, seems to have hit hard times, as it’s filed for [...]

By: Gear6 Brings Memcached to Amazon’s Cloud – GigaOM

Gear6 Brings Memcached to Amazon’s Cloud – GigaOM — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:01:28 +0000

[...] to other cloud environments as well, giving it the trifecta of service options for customers: an appliance, software and a cloud [...]

By: Kevin Clark

Kevin Clark — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:56:24 +0000

Nice Move. MemCache needed something like this.

By: Gear6 – Page One PR – Public Relations in San Francisco, London and Tokyo

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:56:20 +0000

[...] GigoOM Gear6’s Web Cache Makes Web Scalability Easier [...]

By: Links 21/04/2009: Android Sub-notebooks Appear, MAFIAA Smears the FSF | Boycott Novell

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:40:12 +0000

[...] Gear6’s Web Cache Makes Web Scalability Easier Gear6 today released Web Cache in an effort to commercialize the Internet’s predominant (de facto, for Linux) distributed caching protocol, memcached. Every Top 20 web site not owned by Microsoft uses memcached (Facebook has almost 1,000 servers dedicated to its memcached tier) and 50-60 percent of all Alexa-ranked Top 10,000 sites use it to some degree, according to Joaquin Ruiz, EVP of products and corporate development at Gear6. With Web Cache, Gear6 is offering a turnkey solution that brings high availability to memcached, as well as significant capital and operating expenditure savings. [...]

By: Roundup: Fox News launches uReport, AT&T doubles 3G capacity, and more » VentureBeat

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:39:51 +0000

[...] scale web sites — Th product, which is built on the memory protocol memcached, is already used by customers like Answers.com, MyYearBook.com, and [...]

By: Oren

Oren — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:54:52 +0000

Will be interesting to see some benchmarks comparison of Gear6 vs. memcached.

In any case, for small and medium businesses, firing up a virtual server on the cloud as a memcached server is still cheaper than the Gear6 solution.