This slide deck was prepared for the April 20, 2009 launch of Gear6 Web Cache, the Gear6 distribution for Memcached, at the 2009 MySQL Conference. Gear6 Web Cache provides clustering and replication features and reduces the number of Memcached servers by 70%. Gear6 will be at booth 218 at Conference or visit our website at http://gear6.com.

1. Gear6 Web Cache
The scalable, reliable, manageable Memcached caching solution
for high-growth web sites
April 2009

2. Gear6 at a Glance
• Leading provider of scalable
Memcached solutions
• Enabling high-growth web sites
to deliver and scale dynamic
applications and content
• Focused on emerging need for
a dedicated web caching tier
• Customers are leaders in media,
social networking and content aggregation
• Headquartered in Mountain View, California
• Privately held with investments from
U.S. Venture Partners, InterWest and Horizon
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3. Memcached Background & Market
• Need for distributed caching tier is ubiquitous
» Consumer internet trafic surpassed business trafic in 2008
» Dynamic/Social/Aggregation sites are the driving web growth
» Approximately 70% of websites are Linux-based (typically LAMP/Java) and are not
scalable without a distributed caching tier
• Memcached is an open source project that developed around the need for
dynamic web sites to have a distributed caching tier
» Technology: Memcached is a generic two stage hashing system (clients and servers).
Clients are written for specific application types. Server is written in C
» Use cases: HTML, MySQL, Session/profile caching.
• Memcached is de facto solution
» 85% of top 20 sites use memcached; 50%+ of top 5k sites uses Memcached
» Memcached has client libraries in all major languages
» Memcached has application level plug-ins for apps like WordPress and Drupal
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4. Introducing 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 trafic spikes,
and to manage all aspects of caching operations
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5. Gear6 Value Add to Memcached
Customer Community
» Customer-driven » Code contributions on
enhancements to Google Code and Github:
Memcached • Statsproxy
• Testing tools
• Advanced key-space
Reporting Management
Memory Allocation
Memory Allocation
reporting
Management
Management
(Flash+DRAM)
(Flash+DRAM)
» Twitter discussions
Memcached
• Twitter.com/memcached
» Forums
Clustering Replication
Packaging
• dev.gear6.com
(Server, Flash, Networking)
» Memcached development
» Support for Memcached
environment (including
HW, SW and clients)
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6. Scale your Web Site, Applications
scale
save
and Architecture
protect
manage
• High-density memory
architecture for easy and
economical scaling
• Built-in high availability for
reliable scaling
• Comprehensive management
and reporting for predictable,
trouble-free scaling
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7. Save Money, Rack Space,
scale
save
Power and Time
protect
manage
$ 206k
Purchase Operational price of
• Hybrid DRAM-Flash 400 GB web cache solution
Architecture $68k
(Customer costs include HW, SW
support/administration and 3 years
» High speed of DRAM Low of operations)
cost high density of Other Gear6
Flash 6U
Rack space required for a
400 Gbyte web cache solution
• Optimized Memory 2U
Allocation (units or “U” of rack space
required)
Other Gear6
1500 w
• Highest density Power consumption of a
400 Gbyte web cache solutions
Memcached deployment
500 w
(watts)
Other Gear6
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8. Protect Users and Sites
scale
save
from Cache Tier Failures
protect
manage
• Cluster-based continuous service
availability
• Replication-based continuous
data availability
• Fast, easy deployment without
client-side modifications
• Disruption-free software
upgrades
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9. Manage All Aspects
scale
save
of Caching Operations
protect
manage
• Greater management visibility into Memcached
• Ability to drill down to the level of individual instances
• Insight for troubleshooting, optimization and planning
• Hot key, client and instance reporting
Management interface drill-downs providing detail at all levels of Gear6 Web Cache
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10. Gear6 Web Cache Specifications
Gear6 Web Cache Software Gear6 Web Cache Module
• High memory density
» Best-in-class hybrid RAM-Flash
configurations
» Advanced memory management
» Most eficient object eviction
implementation
Gear6 software delivered on best-of-breed,
» High bandwidth support
industry standard servers, DRAM and Flash
• High availability
» Rich cluster functionality Module specs:
» Failover configurations •1 U rack profile with four flash drive bays
» Cache replication options •Minimum of two modules per appliance
• Advanced management •Two power supplies per module
•Four bonded GE ports per module
» Hot key and client analysis
•Two Quad Core processors
» Service-wide diagnostics
•Up to 300GB per rack unit
» Aggregated physical and logical views
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11. Customers and Business
• Gear6 Web Cache
» Beta closed in March 2009
» Early Access Program started in April 2009
» GA 20 April 2009
• Sales
» Direct model now; channel potential
» Solution ASP: $24k-50k
• Example Web Cache Production Customers:
• Company
» 20+ people and hiring!
» Caching, web infrastructure and open source expertise
» Proven product with focus on a high growth space
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12. Resources
• www.gear6.com
» New site on 20 April 2009
• dev.gear6.com
» Community site for Memcached users
» Forums regarding Memcached tools
• Twitter
» twitter.com/memcached
• Github
» http://github.com/rama/statsproxy/tree/master
• Google code
» http://code.google.com/p/statsproxy/
More contributions coming soon!
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13. Thank You!
Joaquin Ruiz
EVP Products
joaquin@gear6.com
+1 650 587 7112
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