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Dataram
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In October 2008 -
Dataram re-entered the
SSD market with the acquisition
of strategic assets from Cenatek
whose CEO has joined Dataram to lead the company's return to solid state
storage, an area they "pioneered 32 years ago.." ...Earlier:-
in 1976
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Dataram sold an SSD
called BULK CORE
which attached to minicomputers from
ModComp and emulated hard
disks made by DEC and Data General. Each chassis held
8x 256k x 18
RAM modules and had a capacity of 2 megabytes.
This is a very
significant milestone for the
SSD market because it shows
the strategic value that memory makers place on SSDs.
In the past
companies like Intel have
resold 3rd party SSD cards, STEC
divested itself of its vanilla memory business and
Samsung would like to
own and control MLC patents now in the hands of
SanDisk.
Look
at it from the viewpoint of a memory maker.
Future server systems
will have orders of magnitude more memory in the attached SSDs than installed
as main RAM memory. Who
owns the brand of the SSD boxes will mean a dramatic difference to attainable
revenue. Being locked out of the SSD box - will mean that a memory maker can
only access smaller markets - or supply other SSD oems at commodity proces.
I expect to report many more such
acquisitions during
the next few years.
When discussing this story my wife said this is an
example of a marketing concept
called "forward
integration."
In August 2009 -
Dataram said it will
launch an SSD
accelerator
at SNW in October. The product is
currently being evaluated by key customers.
"As we prepare to
launch a data storage acceleration product, we have studied the current state of
solid state storage appliances very carefully to understand the strengths and
weaknesses of available solutions," said Jason Caulkins, Dataram's Chief
Technologist. "The features, benefits and hidden compromises the customer
must accept with today's generation of solid state storage appliances are not
always obvious. We hope to help our customers understand all their options and
provide them with a much better solution."
In September 2009 -
Dataram launched the
XcelaSAN
- a fast 2U
rackmount flash SSD with 450,000 random IOPS performance (assuming 50/50
R/W and 4k blocks), and upto 8x 4Gbps FC ports - aimed at the
SAN application
acceleration market. Pricing starts at $65,000 for a unit with approx 360GB
internal flash, of which 128GB is effectively used as a cache.
In
November 2009 - Dataram
is running a webinar -
Navigating
the Maze of Solid State Storage Solutions. Viewers will discover - "How
to better gauge your storage traffic to identify bottlenecks and areas where
solid state storage can provide a day 1 positive ROI."
In July 2010 - Dataram reported that
its
annual
revenue for the year ended April 30 grew 70% to $44 million
incurring a net loss of $1.6 million. Dataram's president and CEO - John H.
Freeman said the company is increasing resources into evolving its
XcelaSAN (ASAP) product line and
plans to launch HA versions later in the year.
See also:-
SSD Market
History
In August 2010 -
StorageSearch.com published
SSD Bookmarks
- suggested by Jason
Caulkins, Chief Technologist
Dataram.
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the Problem with
Write IOPS
the "play it again Sam" syndrome |
Editor:- Flash SSD "random
write IOPS" are now similar to "read IOPS" in many of the
fastest SSDs.
So
why are they such a poor predictor of application performance?
And
why are users still buying
RAM SSDs which cost
9x more than SLC? - even when the IOPS specs look similar. |
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This article tells you
why the specs got faster - but the applications didn't. And why competing SSDs
with apparently identical benchmark results can perform completely
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