Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Purchases Dataram XcelaSAN

Dataram Corporation announced that the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) has purchased and installed the XcelaSAN storage acceleration appliance for use in its missile defense research. XcelaSAN is designed to increase the performance of a storage area network to simulate missile detection, interceptions and counter measures. Dataram is also a provider of server and workstation memory products to JHU/APL.

Bruce Magath, VP of Marketing and Strategy for Dataram commented: "Dataram has a long and successful history of providing products which support mission critical applications both in the commercial and government/DOD sectors." Magath went on to say: "We believe our longevity as a company is directly related to the degree of trust, confidence and value our customers place in our products. Our XcelaSAN application acceleration appliance is our latest success in delivering products to the marketplace that comply with our mission statement to optimize our customers’ investment in technology while also delivering substantial reductions in their total cost of computing."

XcelaSAN is an application acceleration appliance
for Fibre Channel SANs that:

• Boosts storage performance up to 30x without system administrator tuning
• Installs and produces performance improvements in one hour, with no changes to the customer’s application or existing storage systems.
• Does not require new processes or procedures for managing application data    
• Accelerates both reads and writes, to deliver the highest possible performance
• Delivers integrated high availability for no single point of failure when installed in high-availability pairs
• Enables customers to extend the useful life of existing midrange storage systems
• Enables customers to utilize existing storage capacity without negatively impacting performance