Texas Memory Systems’ RamSan-500 solid state disk system achieves certified interoperability with IBM’s System Storage SAN Volume Controller.

Texas Memory Systems, maker of the World's Fastest Storage®, today announced its RamSan-500 solid state disk system has been certified interoperable with IBM’s System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC). The RamSan-500 is an enterprise-class cached flash storage system that delivers high performance, large capacity storage that can deliver in excess of sixteen times the performance of a similar capacity high-end hard disk-based RAID system, while using less than 50% of the power. By incorporating the RamSan-500 into a heterogeneous, virtualized storage environment using the SVC, enterprises can improve performance while saving money.

Solid state storage devices like the award-winning RamSan-500 are deployed to accelerate applications and overcome the input/output bottlenecks commonly experienced with traditional hard disk-based storage. With solid state disks, applications can accommodate more concurrent users and simultaneous transactions, and can be more economical than adding monolithic RAID, servers, RAM, or constant application tuning. The RamSan’s high performance and capacity provide top tier storage in the types of managed Storage Area Network environments where the SVC is deployed.

"IBM SVC customers have been looking for ways to improve the performance of their applications using RamSan SSD," said Woody Hutsell, President of Texas Memory Systems. "Texas Memory Systems and IBM consistently top Storage Performance Council (SPC-1) performance benchmark audits, and both companies deliver broad interoperability for heterogeneous IT environments. So we think customers will welcome the news that the compatibility of the RamSan-500 and the SVC has been thoroughly tested and certified interoperable."

The RamSan-500 delivers 100,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) sustained random read, 25,000 IOPS sustained random write and two gigabytes per second of sustained random read or write bandwidth and yet only consumes 250 watts of power. The system can be SAN-attached with up to eight 4-gigabits per second Fibre Channel ports. Multiple RamSan-500s can be combined to deliver additional high-performance capacity.