TMS gains interoperability certifications

Texas Memory Systems has announced four significant interoperability certifications for its flagship RamSan-325 Fibre Channel solid-state disk. The certifications include Microsoft Designed for Windows Server 2003, Sun Solaris Ready, IBM TotalStorage Proven and McData OpenReady. Each of these certifications is awarded as a result of testing with the related platform.

Applications that benefit from fast solid-state disks include OLTP (online transaction processing), OLAP (online analytical processing), modelling and data acquisition. Typical RamSan users include corporations in the financial, telecom, broadcasting and e-commerce sectors as well as government, military and research organisations.

The RamSan-325 can accelerate I/O intensive applications such as databases up to 2500%. It offers 250,000 I/Os per second and an internal bandwidth of 3 GBps that can be shared effectively amongst multiple servers. The performance boost from the RamSan can enable higher transaction loads and support more users without resorting to additional servers, associated licences and management overhead.

RamSan-325 doubles the capacity of a 3U system to 128 GB of DDR RAM. This means that a single LUN can now accommodate larger database files and terabyte size systems can be created with eight, instead of 16, units. The increasing size of databases is driving demand for larger capacity as well as very high-speed performance. Texas Memory Systems sold a number of terabyte and half terabyte solid-state systems in 2004.