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posted on 17 March 2008 18:48

Gear6, which supplies solid state disk (SSD) NFS filer caching products, has added a third, entry-level product, to its lineup.

The existing G200 and G400 products used flash memory SSDs and cache files requested by server applications from NFS file stores. They accelerate subsequent access to those files between 10 and fifty times, according to Gear6. Access is over gigabit Ethernet.

The G200 offers 256GB capacity and 250,000 IOPS. The larger G400 offers 500,000 IOPS and has 500GB capacity.

There is now a G100 model which offers a 128GB capacity and 125,000 IOPS in an 11U rack unit.

Chris Aliberti, sales VP for Insight Investment, a premier Gear6 channel partner, said: “With Gear6 products customers can now scale performance independently from capacity while enhancing their existing infrastructure. The G100 exposes a wider group of companies to centralized storage caching solutions and broadens our ability to address the performance and scalability challenges facing our clients.”

The products are classed as appliances and can be formed into N-way, active-active clusters, for scalability. Gear6 positions them as NFS network-attached storage (NAS) I/O bottleneck solutions.

The G100 is available immediately at a list price of $149,000.

Gear6 is advised by Geoff Barrall, the founder of BlueArc.

[Phil Robson, news editor.]