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CONTACT: Texas Memory Systems Launches Fastest RAID Cache EverRamSan-330 Accelerates Existing RAID Storage with Faster and Larger CacheHOUSTON, TEXAS, JULY 29, 2003 –Texas
Memory Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the World’s Fastest Storage®,
released today the RamSan-330 external storage cache. The RamSan-330
turbo charges storage by caching the most popular data and distributing
it at maximum rates of 3 gigabytes per second bandwidth and 250,000 I/Os
a second. While 16 gigabytes of RAID cache was once an expensive luxury
to data centers, the RamSan-330’s 16 to 64 gigabytes of fast RAID
cache makes it available to any IT storage environment. By installing
the RamSan-330 in front of RAID devices, bandwidth increases and
response time decreases. The RamSan-330’s four to eight 2-gigabit Fibre
Channel ports can be flexibly allocated to servers, switches or storage
products. This means that a single RamSan-330 can simultaneously serve
as a cache for multiple Fibre Channel RAID, JBOD or other storage
devices. Storage vendors and solution providers have struggled to meet
the needs of end users with increasingly demanding application
environments, such as large, write-intensive databases. The RamSan-330
provides the solution by invisibly accelerating storage to the speed of
SDRAM. “We encounter many users looking for both high
capacity and high performance from their storage environment, yet they
are not ready to step up to the cost and complexity of large
internal-cache based systems,” said John
R. Tibbitts, CEO with storage vendor INLINE Corporation. “ This
independent storage cache approach by Texas Memory Systems could boost
performance and let customers continue to use the RAID systems they
want.” “Solid state disk has an impressive history of
boosting application performance. Some customers, however, need to
dynamically accelerate all their data rather than a few gigabytes,”
said Woody Hutsell, Executive Vice President with Texas Memory Systems.
“With the RamSan-330, we applied our solid state disk technology as an
independent cache for Fibre Channel storage subsystems. We are offering
it as a performance-enhancing solution for customers looking to balance
high performance and capacity at a reasonable cost.” End users can use the RamSan-330 to overcome the
costly bottlenecks associated with slow read/write performance across a
large segment of data. It can accelerate existing storage 250 times by
providing up to 250,000 IOPS and 3 gigabytes per second performance from
cache. This translates into a 2x to 25x real performance improvement for
applications. “In today’s tight economy, CIOs are challenged to do
more with less,” according to David Hill, Vice President of Storage
Research with Aberdeen Group. “The ability to independently scale
storage capacity and performance offers exciting potential to leverage
their current storage devices.” The RamSan-330 is transparent to the operating
system. It automatically caches frequently accessed blocks in its
high-performance memory subsystem, improving read and write performance.
Three cache modes are available for each cached storage device:
write-through, write back, and read-ahead. The RamSan-330 delivers 3
gigabytes per second full duplex internal bandwidth. The system is
battery-backed and will flush cache on external power failure
simultaneously to the cached external storage devices and to internal
hard disk drives. The
system includes hot swap power supplies, hot swap backup hard disk
drives, redundant fans and redundant batteries. The Texas Memory Systems RamSan-330 is immediately
available to storage manufacturers and solution providers worldwide. About Texas Memory Systems: Since 1978, Texas Memory Systems has designed,
manufactured, and marketed the fastest storage subsystems available.
TMS provides solutions that offer the best value and highest
performance available in the solid state storage and digital signal
processing markets. More
information is available at http://www.texmemsys.com
or by calling 713-266-3200. Texas Memory Systems, World’s Fastest
Storage, and RamSan are trademarks or registered trademarks of Texas
Memory Systems.
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