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  • Texas Memory Systems’ New RamSan-630 Achieves 1 Million IOPS in 6U Flash Storage

    Texas Memory Systems, Inc., maker of the World’s Fastest Storage, today announced the availability of the 10-TeraByte SLC Flash based RamSan-630 with 500,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) in a 3U enclosure.

    Currently, 10 Fibre Channel links (4-Gb) allow 4-GB/s of aggregated bandwidth for the RamSan-630. In a few months, new InfiniBand and 8-Gb Fibre Channel adapters will allow 8-GB/s of aggregated bandwidth. With these extreme performance numbers, the 10-TB RamSan-630 sets the standard for immediate (microseconds NOT milliseconds) high volume database storage access.

    Applications are constantly expanding capacity needs and performance requirements. As user loads continue to increase, the IT community is challenged to optimize limited data center resources, such as space, power and cooling. Traditional, mechanical Hard Disk Drive (HDD) based storage is inherently slow, bulky, and power-intensive when compared to Flash storage. However, simply incorporating Flash into HDD form factor systems delivers limited improvement in performance and power usage. Even Flash systems using PCIe interfaces do not allow multiple servers to access all of the capacity at this bandwidth level, a core requirement of the Enterprise.

    In contrast, the RamSan-630 has been engineered to optimize Flash capabilities to meet the full spectrum of Enterprise needs for performance, reliability, and efficiency. It is unique in its ability to scale horizontally and offer shared access to multiple servers. It is the 16th generation SSD from Texas Memory Systems, the supplier with the largest, most demanding SSD production installations worldwide.

    “Flash SSD is one of the most transformative technologies available in the data center,” said George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage Switzerland. “With the RamSan-630, Texas Memory Systems is again demonstrating its innovation leadership. It has engineered a Flash system backplane that enables applications to leverage the full bandwidth in a networked environment without any changes to the application. Enterprise IT can expect to reap the performance and efficiency of Flash without any upheaval since applications are already architected to maximize bandwidth utilization in traditional HDD infrastructures.”

    The RamSan-630 delivers up to 500,000 sustained I/Os per second and 10 terabytes of storage with 8GB/second bandwidth in a single 3U chassis. Latency is less than 80 microseconds. Power utilization is just 450 watts. In order to deliver a similar bandwidth using HDD, it would require a full data center rack and consume 14 times as much power while still falling short of the RamSan-630 performance and latency.

    “The RamSan-630 is the smart choice for today’s demanding enterprise data centers,” said Levi Norman, Director of Marketing and OEM for Texas Memory Systems. “We developed it in response to observing how customers were struggling to boost performance without adding to their data center footprint. The explosive growth in IT and storage over the years is resulting in many data centers reaching their limits for space and power draw. High performance computing and data warehouses in particular need high performance, high efficiency storage for batch processes and simultaneous system access. The time is right for RamSan.”

    The RamSan-630 is available now from Texas Memory Systems and its partner network. Find more information about the RamSan-630, including price quotes, online at https://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-630.htm.

  • Scalado Nominated for the Swedish Great Export Prize

    Scalado, an imaging software company that focuses on the wireless device industry, announced that it has been nominated for the Swedish Trade Council’s Great Export Prize.

    Scalado has developed unique imaging technology for camera phones which is currently embedded in over 500 million mobile phones. This year the company’s imaging product will be present in every third manufactured phone.

    Sami Niemi, Co-Founder and CTO of Scalado gave us a demonstration of their technology at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

    During the past year Scalado expanded in both the US and Asia, including a strategic partnership with Qualcomm Incorporated, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones and networking equipment.

    The Great Export Prize is awarded by the Swedish Trade Council to a Swedish company that has had great success with its exports in recent years. The winner will receive the prize directly from the hand of the King of Sweden in April in Stockholm.

    According to Swedish Trade Council, the Great Export Prize is awarded to the company that has:
    • Demonstrated strong development of its exports or foreign sales over recent years, with success on several markets
    • Demonstrated positive development of added value, organic growth and job creation in its Swedish operations
    • Developed a strong concept in market offers or marketing
    • Increased sales in combination with good profitability

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Andrew Ruckemann of Aktavara

    At the Mobile World Congress we met with Andrew Ruckemann, Director of Business Development at Aktavara; they are market innovators providing software that improves the business performance of networks.

    Their x:akta software is used by world-class network operators for automated, dynamic inventory-based design and planning of all active and passive network resources – from MOBILE BACKHAUL to FTTx.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Edvin Ruud, CEO and President of Apis

    Apis Technical Training is a technology training company. They deliver trainings to operators, suppliers, service providers, regulators and consultants globally. They provide in-depth 2G/GSM, 3G/UMTS and 4G/EPS courses and business training covering the mobile evolution and its business impact on operators.

    They recently launched on-line training, enabling participants to enjoy Apis renowned training anytime and anywhere. They claim that unlike traditional e-learning, Apis’ on-line training is interactive, engaging and reduces the overall cost of training significantly.

    At the Mobile World Congress we talked to Edvin Ruud, CEO and President of Apis.

  • Nortel CVAS Enhances Its 4G Mobile VoIP Solution

    Nortel CVAS (Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions) unveiled new wireless and 4G mobile VoIP solution enhancements. According to Nortel, the enhancements equip carriers to deliver “a superior user experience, reduce network deployment costs and speed time to market.”

    It equips operators to integrate seamlessly with all cellular technologies, including 2G, 3G and the latest 4G LTE and WiMAX networks. The solution delivers a set of voice, messaging and multimedia services to all of the subscriber’s devices, with seamless hand-off across WiFi, GSM 2G/3G, CDMA 2G/3G, HSPA/+, WiMAX and LTE networks.

    Nortel CVAS says its new enhancements in 4G Mobile VoIP also equip carriers with “advanced routing capabilities for querying a Home Location Register“ to optimize call routing into the cellular network, billing enhancements to facilitate billing correlation between legacy cellular and SIP networks, and roaming support on a foreign cellular operator’s network.

    “The solution offers integrated wireless signaling gateway capability that allows operators to leverage their existing OAM systems for fault management, performance management, provisioning and billing. Subscribers can enjoy a better communication experience because the solution enables seamless hand-off between mobile and broadband networks, as well as advanced features like single identity, presence, web-based call screening, visual voicemail, and SMS to IM interworking,” the company says.

    Nortel is implementing large scale 4G VoIP network that offers voice continuity between 4G mobile VoIP, existing 2G/3G cellular voice and WiFi. In addition, they have deployed VoIP solutions that leverage the subscriber’s laptop and mobile device in parallel for call control and multimedia service enrichment.

    Nortel CVAS 4G Mobile VoIP solution enhancements are expected to be available in the second half of 2010. The solution can be deployed as a stand-alone SIP Application Server, as a 3GPP IMS-compliant application server or as an upgrade for carrier customers who have already deployed Nortel’s Communication Server (CS) 2000 IP Multimedia softswitch .

    Samih Elhage, president, CVAS, Nortel said, "Our 4G Mobile VoIP solution simplifies operator deployments and eliminates the need for costly upgrades to existing Mobile Service Control Points and back-office systems, which results in lower costs and faster time to market for carriers. In addition, Nortel CVAS mobile VoIP and FMC innovations have been deployed by several leading service providers across the globe."

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Bo Söderberg, COO and Co-Founder of Prosilient Technologies

    Prosilient Technologies is the provider of application aware end-to-end service performance management, QoS measurement and SLA supervision systems for multiple communication networks. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we spoke to Bo Söderberg, COO and Co-Founder of this Swedish company.

    The Prosilient system facilitates a uniform IP performance management through all segments of the operator network. The same system monitors the service, and aggregation networks as well as the SAN and IP end-to-end performance.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Nikolas Georgii of Teligent Telecom

    At the Mobile World Congress we spoke with Nikolas Georgii, marketing Director at Teligent Telecom, a company that specializes in messaging, charging and customized IN applications based on a common middleware platform.

    They are also a global supplier of infrastructure solutions for Value Added Services to telecommunications operators. All solutions are based on the award winning Teligent P90/E Application Architecture – a true generic architecture for convergent service development, conforming to the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS).


  • MWC 2010: Interview with Karl Thedéen, CEO of Transmode

    Transmode, a provider of optical networking solutions for transport of data, voice and video traffic, based on CWDM/DWDM technology was present at the Mobile World Congress. They focus on boosting network capacity, reducing complexity and improving ease-of-operations.

    We talked to Karl Thedéen, CEO of the company. Their Intelligent WDM (iWDM) technology with integrated Layer 2 functionality provides a cost-optimized transport of multiple services and allows operators to deploy Layer 2 Ethernet services directly from the optical network.


  • MWC 2010: Interview with Martin Schlingmann, CTO & Co-Founder of The Institution

    At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelone we met with Martin Schlingmann, CTO & Co-Founder of The Institution, a Swedish product development company.

    Their main product is the REVIVAL Mobile Management Suite, a solution for remote support, provisioning, securing and managing the corporate mobile eco-system.

    The heart and central point of the REVIVAL architecture is the REVIVAL Server. It provides specific communication facilities and services to clients and devices.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Nicole van der Wolf, CMO at Frog2Frog

    At the Mobile World Congress we spoke with Nicole van der Wolf, Chief Marketing Officer at Frog2Frog, a company focused on making mobile advertising actually work.

    Their technologies make mobile ads easy, interactive, and compatible with almost every handset on the market. It is a platform that runs advertising-supported services (USSD and SMS) on mobile operator’s networks.

    They focus on basic mobile services that are used by the majority of customers. They claim that only applications like SMS, Voice and Balance Check provide advertisers with the reach required to penetrate large parts of the population.