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The following whitepapers discuss the RamSan and solid state disk technology in
general. These whitepapers include implemented and theoretical applications of
solid state disks.
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New Whitepapers
Flash SSD Reliability 
By taking a narrative journey from the chip point of view all the way up to the
enterprise information system architecture perspective, this paper will explore
why reliability problems occur in NAND Flash and describe some of the ways
these issues are being addressed.
SSD and the Securities Industry
Solid state disks offer increased performance to some of the most important applications in the securities industry. They improve performance without requiring costly rewrites of applications by dramatically reducing the latency of the storage. There are two broad categories of applications where solid state disks are leveraged: applications where the best performance would come from running in server memory but the volatility (risk of data loss) of memory cannot be tolerated and applications where such large capacities are needed that server memory is either not large enough or too costly. The RamSan-400 and RamSan-500 solid state disks are designed to offer a solution to both of these cases. They are proven solutions deployed globally to accelerate critical financial exchange, securities trading, and bank applications.
Lowering TCO with SSD
This paper discusses the benefits of combining SSD (Tier 0) with RAID (Tier 2) in order to achieve performance, capacity, scalability and reliability while saving money.
Achieving Energy Efficiency using Flash SSD by StorageIO
Reducing energy consumption is an important topic for any IT data center. While there is a lot of discussion about reducing energy by doing less, another form of energy efficiency is doing more with less power. For example, processing more transactions in a given time frame is an effective approach to energy efficiency for time and performance sensitive applications. This paper looks at how solid state disk (SSD) and, in particular, FLASH based SSD can be incorporated into an energy efficiency strategy as part of a tiered storage architecture to address power and environmental concerns while reducing server and storage I/O performance bottlenecks.
Podcast: Achieving Energy Efficiency Using Flash SSD 
by Greg Schulz, StorageIO
An Enterprise-Grade Configuration
Management Solution - by Go2 Group
For a great variety of reasons, and in no small part due to its inherently scalable
architecture, Perforce has become the enterprise corporate standard CM system of choice
in many software development organizations. It is used by many of the largest software
development organizations in the world to automate their software production lines.
(Registration required for the two whitepapers below)
SSD and the Financial Industry
Financial Services companies are seeking technology that will enable them
to process more transactions. This is being accomplished by implementing
faster servers, more powerful applications, high-bandwidth networks, and
high-performance storage, such as solid state disks.
Increase Application Performance with Solid State Disk
This whitepaper presents solid state disks as a cost-effective way to improve
application performance. This includes a comparison of methods for increased
performance and third party verification of Texas Memory Systems' claim as "The
World's Fastest Storage."
Database Systems Whitepapers
The following whitepapers discuss the uses of RamSans with database
systems. For additional information about Oracle implementations,
please visit our Oracle Performance Resource Center.
Faster Oracle
Performance with Solid State Disks
Deutsche (German) Version
Accelerate Oracle Logs and Tablespaces Using the Write Accelerator
Mike Ault describes in detail the vast performance increase Texas Memory Systems' plug-and-play Write Accelerator has on Oracle databases when redo logs, undo tablespaces and temporary tablespaces are placed on this device.
Podcast: Mike Ault's Introduction to the Write Accelerator
Faster SQL Server Database Access with Solid State Disks Faster Sybase
Performance with Solid State Disks
Whitepapers
Performance Boosting and Workload Isolation in SANs with SANCache
To demonstrate the ability of SANCache to isolate workloads and make performance guarantees on demand,
Hewlett Packard Laboratories used a RamSan solid state disk from Texas Memory Systems.
SANCache observes I/O and migrates frequently accessed data chunks to the high-throughput,
low-latency RamSan SSD, which then serves the hot data.
High Performance QFS with Solid State Disk Metadata Storage
In an attempt to resolve metadata performance problems, San Diego Super
Computer Center tested a RamSan based solid state disk from Texas Memory
Systems. This whitepaper discusses the problem, methods, and results that led
to performance improvements up to 4000% for file system operations across a
range of activities.
Understanding IOPS
RamSan-400 performance benchmarks and in-depth explanations on the meaning and implications of SSD's high I/O's Per Second (IOPS) ratings.
Web Performance Enhancement With Solid State Disk
This article, by Dr. Mitchell Wyle, Co-Founder Euphorian, Inc., analyzes the
potential benefits that a solid state disk can bring to web-enabled internet
and intranet systems.
File Sharing With
The Texas Memory Systems RamSan
An overview of using the RamSan to accelerate high-traffic file sharing
environments.
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