Analyst Reports

The Growing Need for I/O Performance
Why sustainable I/O performance is vital to supporting key initiatives from server virtualization to new application rollouts.

Gear6 CACHEfx: Fast Cache and Smart I/O
Gear6’s CACHEfx is a unique solution providing a network-based intelligent caching appliance that combines sophisticated software for efficient cache algorithms and clustering technology to significantly improve throughput and IOPS performance for NAS environments. -Enterprise Strategy Group

Gear6’s CACHEfx Caching Appliance Optimizes I/O for Critical Commercial Applications
...many large commercial sites whose key applications are drowning under excessive I/O demands will quickly see that this product from Gear6 delivers the goods. Enterprise Management Associates

Taneja Group Technology Brief: The Business Case for Centralized Storage Caching
We believe that centralized storage caching offers a killer value proposition - an order of magnitude better performance (for both IOPS and access times) coupled with a non-disruptive approach that complements existing storage infrastructure. Taneja Group

Robert Frances Group Research Brief: Centralized Storage Caching: A Bridge for the Server-Storage Performance Gap?
RFG believes almost every enterprise is seeking to accelerate overall IT performance, to deliver consistently high service levels, and to reduce over-provisioning of resources and its attendant costs and support challenges. Storage caching, such as that offered by the Gear6 Cachefx solution, can enable all three benefits, without requiring significant modification of IT or business infrastructures.

SearchStorage Analyst View: Performance caching: Your new Tier-0
Imagine a true shared high-performance tier with fat memory, which could be accessible across heterogeneous applications. Technology is now available that allows us to deploy a high-performance, memory-rich, scale-out tier...

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Infostor Analyst View: Examining I/O performance issues
It should come as no surprise that businesses continue to rely upon larger amounts of disk storage and higher I/O performance, which feed the hungry needs of applications striving to meet SLAs and QoS objectives. Infostor

Data Center I/O Performance Issues and Impacts
A look at I/O performance bottlenecks and their impact on time sensitive applications.
The StorageIO Group sees that, even with efforts to reduce storage capacity or improve capacity utilization with ILM enabled infrastructures, applications leveraging rich content will continue to consume more storage capacity and require additional I/O performance.