Cloud Computing on Ulitzer

Gear6, a provider of Memcached solutions, and GoGrid, a Cloud Infrastructure Hosting provider, on Tuesday rolled out Gear6 Cloud Cache for the GoGrid Cloud. This on-demand service allows GoGrid customers to take advantage of Gear6's robust, commercial-grade Memcached offering to speed up, scale out and ensure uptime for their web services and applications.

First introduced in December 2009 as Gear6 Web Cache Server for the Cloud, Gear6 Cloud Cache is the industry's first enhanced Memcached offering for cloud platforms. Memcached is a popular, open source distributed memory system used to scale dynamic content for busy web sites. As dynamic content gets pushed to cloud applications, Memcached provides an ideal mechanism for accelerating performance. Cloud Cache, Gear6's Memcached distro for the cloud, uniquely leverages cloud-based storage resources to increase cache depth by several orders of magnitude and offers optimized memory management that delivers even higher levels of performance and increased efficiency. Free and paid images of Cloud Cache are available on GoGrid today.

"Just as file services and storage services have become common to cloud-based platforms, memory services are now a must-have for fast, scalable cloud applications," said Joaquin Ruiz, Executive Vice President of Products for Gear6. "Given its popularity with many of the busiest Web 2.0 sites, Memcached is the natural universal API to address memory usage in the cloud. Already proven on other platforms, Gear6 Cloud Cache is now ready for GoGrid customers looking to speed up their web apps without breaking the bank."

GoGrid offers both on-demand, self-service cloud hosting services as well as hybrid hosting enabling customers to connect to physical hardware. GoGrid's open front-end is backed by state-of-the-art hardware and broad operating systems support.

"With the addition of the Gear6 Cloud Cache service, GoGrid continues to maintain our edge in the cloud hosting market," said John Keagy, CEO and co-founder, GoGrid. "Now, GoGrid can deliver the needed on-demand memory services required by our customers to scale out their applications, improve the utility of our service and manage their memory usage easily."