Gear6 Web Cache Used by Fastest Growing Social Media Sites to Lower Costs and Increase Scalability With Memcached

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Apr 20 (MARKET WIRE) --
Gear6 (www.Gear6.com), which is unveiling its product line at the MySQL
Conference today, announced that several of the fastest growing social
media sites are using Gear6 Web Cache to reduce the overall cost of
memcached deployments, to improve site performance by ensuring continuous
data availability, and to better plan and scale memcached operations
through greater manageability.

"Gear6 has spent the past year developing and deploying a solution to help
leading media, content aggregation and social networking sites reduce the
expense of running their memcached infrastructure by more than 80%," said
Tom Shea, CEO of Gear6. "Today's launch highlights the real progress we're
making with customers, as we see significant repeatable demand from web
developers and publishers for a more efficient, scalable way of using
memcached."

Answers Corporation, myYearbook and Veoh are among the first customers to
have purchased and used in production Gear6 Web Cache after an extensive
beta testing program.

"Our two web properties, Answers.com and WikiAnswers.com, serve more than
25 million unique U.S. users each month," said Dan Marriott, Director of
Production Operations for Answers Corporation. "We have experienced a
dramatic rise in our web traffic over the past year. To help meet that
growth, we've had to considerably increase the number of memcached servers
we've deployed. Gear6 Web Cache directly addressed our very pressing cost
and reliability concerns about scaling and growing our sites. Gear6 Web
Cache reduces the number of memcached servers by a factor of 6. In
addition, we anticipate an additional savings of 65% in operational costs
for our critical memcached function over the next 3 years."

"myYearbook.com is the third-largest and fastest-growing online social
network in the United States," said Jeremy Stinson, VP of Network
Operations at myYearbook.com. "As we continue our explosive growth, we
needed a way to reduce the number of memcached servers and improve
manageability so we can better plan out how we scale. Memcached is the
best solution for deploying a distributed caching tier, and Gear6 takes
us to the next level of cost savings and manageability."

"The growing popularity of Veoh Video Compass -- a browser plug-in that
enables video to be played while on every major search engine, portal and
commerce site -- requires that Veoh's web site scale efficiently and
reliably," said Simon Ferrett, Lead Operations Engineer at Veoh.com. "Veoh
tested Gear6 Web Cache for several months and found that Gear6 is a proven
solution for saving money and ensuring maximum availability of our
memcached services."

Gear6 is unveiling the Gear6 Web Cache solution today at the MySQL
Conference in Santa Clara, CA, where they are exhibiting at booth #218.
More information on Gear6 and Web Cache can be found at their new website
http://www.gear6.com/, or on their Twitter feed at
http://twitter.com/memcached.

About Gear6

Gear6 is the first and leading provider of scalable memcached solutions,
enabling high-growth media, social networking and content aggregation web
sites to deliver and scale dynamic applications and content. By focusing
on the emerging need for a dedicated web caching tier, Gear6 solutions
dramatically improve the scalability of web applications and databases,
improving quality of service and reducing infrastructure cost. Gear6's
flagship offering is Gear6 Web Cache, a memcached protocol-compliant
solution that enables web site developers and operators to scale web
services and applications, to save money, rack space, power and time, to
protect users and sites from failures and traffic spikes, and to manage
all aspects of caching operations. Gear6 corporate headquarters are in
Mountain View, California. The company is privately held with investments
from U.S. Venture Partners, InterWest and Horizon.

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