Gear6 - Ownership and Business Overview

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Gear6 Ownership

Who owns Gear6?

Gear6 is owned by Violin Memory. It was acquired on June 16, 2010.

Gear6 Business Overview

Where is Gear6 headquartered?

Gear6 is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

What sector is Gear6 in?

Gear6 is a software company.

When was Gear6 founded?

Gear6 was founded in 2006.

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Gear6

526 Clyde Avenue,
Mountain View, California 94043
United States,
www.gear6.com

Gear6 is a provider of scalable centralized caching solutions. The company’s solutions are designed to improve application performance while reducing total storage costs. By eliminating shared I/O bottlenecks, the company’s appliances accelerate data center I/O performance and increase server utilization levels to help enterprises maximize storage and server investments. The company provides visibility into how application workloads are influenced by server virtualization, clustered computing, and Web-scale environments to improve and manage sustainable I/O performance.


Company Summary

SECTOR

Software

Established

2006

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