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  • Mercury Technology Delivers “Green” Cloud for Oracle EBusiness Suite Using RamSan Flash Storage

    Texas Memory Systems and Mercury Technology today announced that the Mercury Technology ultra high performance “Enterprise Cloud” hosted solutions for Oracle-based applications are powered by Texas Memory Systems’ RamSan PCIe-based solid state disks (SSD).

    Users of the RamSan SSD-enabled servers see significantly higher performance so their Oracle applications can handle very high transaction volumes and more simultaneous users than is possible with hard disk-based systems.

    “We added solid state disks to win additional new business with a premium enterprise cloud-based hosting service for large users of Oracle-based applications,” said Brian Day, Vice President of Sales at Mercury Technology. “We also wanted to maintain our cost advantage by building a more energy-efficient, lower-maintenance and greener, data center. The Texas Memory Systems RamSans allowed us to do that.”

    The RamSan PCIe Fault Tolerant Flash-based SSD cards are easily inserted into a server’s PCIe slot to deliver up to 120,000 sustained I/Os per second (IOPS) with a mere 50 microsecond latency and just 15 watts of power. This industry-leading latency is key to RamSan’s ability to accelerate transactions and improve user response time, resulting in productivity gains for users. .

    “We chose Texas Memory Systems because it is the only company that has such a long history in this technology,” continued Mr. Day.

    ”The other vendors are newer players, none of whom have been working in the Oracle world. It’s important to have a partner that is not only knowledgeable, but who also has first-hand experience with other customers running Oracle software, a company that develops its own products based on the feedback it gets from customers. We wanted to offer our clients the stability that only Texas Memory Systems offers today.”

    “Some of the biggest, most demanding Oracle customers are hosted with Mercury Technology so we were delighted that it chose our RamSan solid state disks over all competing alternatives,” said Jamon Bowen, Director of Sales Engineering at Texas Memory Systems. “RamSan solutions are a proven way to turbo charge Oracle performance.”

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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.

  • Texas Memory Systems Sets New SPC-1 Records for Flash Storage Performance

    Texas Memory Systems announced that its RamSan-620 Flash Solid State Disk (SSD) has submitted a record setting SPC-1 Result.

    Launched in August, the RamSan-620 produced 254,994.21 SPC-1 IOPS with Average Response Time of 0.72 milliseconds all from a 2U rack-mount chassis.

    The RamSan-620 delivers its performance at a cost of only $1.13 per SPC-1 IOPS. That SPC-1 Price-Performance is better than any competing RAID solution or Flash solution, as the company claims.

    According to the firm, Texas Memory Systems now holds the top 3 positions for storage price-performance as well as Average Response Time.

    "Texas Memory Systems is to be congratulated for producing an SPC-1 Result that demonstrates excellent performance with outstanding response time," said Walter E. Baker, administrator of the Storage Performance Council.

    The Storage Performance Council     (SPC) is a vendor-neutral organization that establishes storage benchmarks and disseminates objective, verifiable storage performance data.

    SPC-1 is a sophisticated performance benchmark for storage subsystems. The benchmark simulates the demands placed upon storage in a typical server-class computer system. SPC-1 provides measurements in support of real-world environments and is designed as a source of comparative storage subsystem performance information.

    The RamSan-6200 is a scaled up system that combines twenty RamSan-620 solid state disks in a single datacenter rack and uses Texas Memory Systems’ TeraWatch software to provide unified management and monitoring from a single GUI console.

    The system utilizes enterprise grade Single Level Cell (SLC) Flash as well as multiple levels of RAID and advanced Flash management algorithms.

    A single RamSan-620 unit provides 5TB of SLC Flash with 250,000 sustained IOPS for random reads and random writes. Each RamSan-620 unit can support 2 to 8 Fibre Channel or up to 4 InfiniBand links.

    The company says the falling cost of high speed SSD now makes it cost-effective to replace racks of hard disk drives. For example, a single 5 terabyte RamSan-620 can outperform a 500 drive RAID at a fraction of the cost, power requirement, and data center space,” the company says.

    “The RamSan-620 established new Flash records using off-the shelf servers and systems that can be reasonably purchased, rather than multi-million dollar, limited environment supercomputing class systems that do not reflect typical data center capabilities,” according to Texas Memory Systems. .