Texas Memory Achieves 8GB/s Bandwidth and 800,000 IO/s

Texas Memory Systems, Inc. has upgraded its RamSan-630 Flash storage system with the availability of the FC-381 8-Gigabit (8-Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) Interface.

This interface doubles the bandwidth previously available to FC
RamSan-630 users. Used in performance-critical applications, the
RamSan-630 and FC-381 can remove storage Input/Output bottlenecks and
allow time critical applications to run faster.

"Many Enterprise applications, such as Data Warehousing, Business
Intelligence, and Enterprise Resource Planning are bandwidth intensive
and will benefit from the performance achieved with Flash storage," said George Crump, Chief Analyst at Storage Switzerland. "By
adding 8-Gb Fibre Channel Interfaces, Texas Memory Systems can
dramatically accelerate these critical applications with a broadly
supported industry standard."

The 8-Gb Fibre Channel protocol is supported by a variety of switches,
host bus adapters (HBAs), and now the RamSan-630. In an existing Fibre
Channel network, the RamSan-630 and FC-381 provide a plug and play
solution. The system supports Point-to-Point, Switched Fabric, and
Arbitrated Loop topologies, and is interoperable with all major Fibre
Channel HBAs, switches, and virtualization devices. It also supports LUN
masking and SNMP web-based unit management.

Most traditional RAID systems, either disk-based or SSD-based, offer
only a few 8-Gb FC ports. A fully populated RamSan-630 system offers 10 independent 8-Gb FC ports for a total data transfer rate of 8-GBytes/s. It is also space-efficient, providing up to 10 terabytes of Flash-based storage in a standard 3U rack-mounted enclosure.

Now users have two high-performance options for connecting to a
RamSan-630 – the previously announced IB-381 QDR InfiniBand Interface,
and the new FC-381 8-Gb Fibre Channel Interface. The RamSan-630 can
accept five interfaces of either variety, for a total bandwidth of
either 8-GBytes/s (FC) or 10-GBytes/s (IB). The FC-381 and the IB-381
each utilize an embedded 1-GHz processor, a dedicated high-performance
FPGA, and 128-megabytes of flow control memory to maintain data rates at
near wire speeds.

"At Texas Memory Systems, we take pride in our ability to develop the highest performance solid state disks on the market," said Jamon Bowen, Director of Sales Engineering at Texas Memory Systems. "In
order to take advantage of the very high bandwidth inherent in Flash
chips, the RamSan-630, the FC-381, and the IB-381 were specifically
designed to support extreme Flash bandwidth with no compromises. Now the
user can take maximum advantage of this Flash bandwidth to accelerate
applications."

The new FC-381 for the RamSan-630 is available.