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Dataram

Founded in 1967, Dataram Corporation is a recognized worldwide leader in the manufacture of high quality computer memory, storage and software products.

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The company delivers value to its customers through solutions that optimize data center and application performance, while at the same time delivering significant cost savings without introducing risk. Dataram products and solutions are deployed in 70 of the Fortune 100 companies and governmental agencies including the Department of Defense who use Dataram products for the most demanding mission critical applications.
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Dataram - addresses and links

Dataram Corporation - worldwide headquarters
186 Princeton-Hightstown Rd
West Windsor, NJ 08550
USA
url:- http://www.dataram.com

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see also:- Dataram - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

Dataram recent mentions in SSD market history

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 - 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.
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.
the problem with flash SSD  write IOPS 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 differently. ...read the article
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Who makes the fastest SSDs?

Speed isn't everything, and it comes at a price.........
But if you do need the speediest SSD (chip, card, module or rackmount) then wading through the web sites of hundreds of SSD oems to shortlist products slows you down.

And the SSD search problem will get even worse as we head towards a market with over 1,000 SSD oems.
the fastest SSDs  sorted by interface and form factor - click to read article ... Relax - I've done the research. And this whizzy wish list is updated daily from storage news and direct contacts from oems. ...read the article,
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What's the best way to design a flash SSD?

and other questions which divide SSD opinion
More than 10 key areas of fundamental disagreement within the SSD industry are discussed in an article here on StorageSearch.com called the the SSD Heresies.
click to read the article - the SSD Heresies ... Why can't SSD's true believers agree upon a single coherent vision for the future of solid state storage? ...read the article

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