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Houston, TX, October 16, 2006 -- Texas Memory Systems, makers of the World's Fastest Storage®,
today unveiled the RamSan-300 - a high-performance, highly available, entry-level solid state
disk (SSD) that allows database managers to increase the number of concurrent users and
simultaneous transactions without adding servers, RAM, or monolithic RAID.
Unlike hard disk based storage, solid state disk systems are purchased as performance
accelerators, not as data repositories. The new RamSan-300 solid state disk can sustain over
200,000 random IOs per second (IOPS) and 1.5 gigabytes per second of bandwidth, virtually
eliminating the lag time between today's high-performance processors and access to stored
data. The RamSan-300's 16- to 32-gigabytes of DDR-RAM is designed to accelerate performance-
critical log files and indices of large databases and/or to store a small database. The system
includes a new generation of RamSan firmware that supports up to 1,024 LUNs (the highest of
any solid state disk). Additionally, the RamSan-300 is covered under Texas Memory Systems'
application performance guarantee.
"User wait times can often be eliminated by simply speeding up an application's log files and
indices," said Don Burleson, CEO of Burleson Consulting and co-author of many popular books on
Oracle database performance tuning. "By providing a lower-cost SSD for this purpose, Texas
Memory Systems makes it possible for more organizations to get the database performance they
need to cost-effectively add users and manage more transactions."
The RamSan-300's ground-breaking reliability features include redundant hot-swappable power
supplies, redundant batteries, redundant Fibre Channel ports, mirrored hard drives for data
backup and Texas Memory Systems' unique Active Backup technology. Additionally, the RamSan-300
includes IBM's Chipkill technology, which helps prevent data corruption, even if an entire
memory chip is lost. It is also the first solid state disk with Soft Error Scrubbing - a
technology that automatically scrubs soft memory errors preventing unnecessary system errors
and downtime.
"SMEs have similar needs as larger enterprises when it comes to adding users and boosting the
number of transactions their databases can manage," said Richard Hilken, CEO of Reactive Data,
an international solution provider specializing in data management. "However, until now medium
enterprises struggled to afford the solid state disk technology used by their larger
competitors. The new RamSan-300 solid state disk from Texas Memory Systems changes this. It is
the first truly enterprise-class SSD that is sized and priced for medium-size business."
"The RamSan-300 is designed to meet the needs of organizations where faster application
performance is required, but the IT investments must be tempered by cost considerations," said
Woody Hutsell, Executive Vice President at Texas Memory Systems.
About Texas Memory Systems
Texas Memory Systems (http://www.texmemsys.com)
manufactures the World's Fastest Storage® and
is the market leader in solid state disk technology. Their RamSan line of solid state storage
is used to accelerate enterprise applications like OLTP databases, batch processes, and data
warehouses, modeling and video editing up to 2500%. Founded in 1978, they sell direct to large
enterprise and government organizations. They also sell through OEM and reseller partners.
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Texas Memory Systems, World's Fastest Storage, RamSan and Active Backup are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Texas Memory Systems, Inc. IBM and Chipkill are trademarks of
International Business Machines Corp. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
More information on the TMS application performance guarantee is available online at
www.superssd.com/guarantee.htm
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