Dataram: Fiscal 1Q11 Financial Results

Dataram Corporation reported its financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended July 31, 2010.

Revenues for the first quarter were $12.7 million, which compares to $9.2 million for the comparable prior year period and also compares to $11.9 million for the prior sequential quarter.

The Company incurred a pre-tax net loss for the first quarter of the current fiscal year of $1.2 million which compares to a pre-tax net loss of $1.6 million for the comparable prior year period and a pre-tax net loss of $1.6 million for the prior sequential period.

John H. Freeman, Dataram’s president and CEO commented: "Our memory solutions business continued to grow in our fiscal first quarter. The implementation of our sales and marketing strategy coupled with the gradual economic recovery is having a positive effect on demand for our products and our memory business is increasingly cash profitable."

Mr. Freeman stated: "The release schedule and development of our XcelaSAN product line is on track. Subsequent to the first quarter, we released the product with enhanced features and functionality which increases its ease of use, ease of installation and interoperability. We have accepted our first purchase order for this released version of XcelaSAN and have delivered and successfully installed the system. High Availability systems are still expected to be available for sale in December. We anticipate that our enhancements and the shipment of high availability systems will accelerate product sales and broaden market adoption. XcelaSAN is a unique intelligent Storage Area Network (SAN) optimization solution that delivers substantive application performance improvement to applications such as Oracle, SQL and VMware. XcelaSAN augments existing storage systems by transparently applying intelligent caching algorithms that serve the most active block-level data from high-speed storage, creating an intelligent, virtual solid state SAN. This breakthrough solution allows organizations to dramatically increase the performance of their business-critical applications without the costly hardware upgrades or over-provisioning of storage typically found in current solutions for increased performance."

Mr. Freeman continued: "We are continuing our investments in research and development in XcelaSAN and recognized that we required external financing to continue these investments. In July 2010, we entered into an agreement with a financial institution for secured debt financing of up to $5.0 million. Also in July 2010, we entered into an agreement with a related party vendor to consign up to $3.0 million of certain inventory into our manufacturing facilities. This will allow us to substantially reduce our inventory carrying requirements while still maintaining our ability to service our customers. We expect that these two agreements together with cash generated from our memory solutions business will generate sufficient liquidity for us to meet our operating plans for fiscal 2011."

The Company’s net loss for the first quarter was of $1,239,000, or $0.14 per share which compares to net loss of $978,000, or $0.11 per share for the comparable prior year period. The prior fiscal year’s first quarter net loss includes an income tax benefit of $628,000 on which the Company subsequently placed a 100% valuation allowance in its third quarter of fiscal 2010.

Mr. Freeman concluded: "The turnaround of our memory solutions business is on track. Our memory solutions business is generating positive cash flow and growing. Our outlook for XcelaSAN is very robust, particularly as we move into High Availability systems later this year. We expect that the enhancements under development will further strengthen our value proposition and sales."