World's Fastest Storage Backed With A Performance Guarantee As Texas Memory Systems Moves To Expand Market For Solid State Disks
Texas Memory System's guarantees RamSan solid state disks will deliver faster performance than any competitive storage product and that software application performance will be accelerated to the customer's satisfaction.
Houston, TX (PRWEB) April 4, 2005 -- Texas Memory Systems, makers of the
World’s Fastest Storage®, announced that it is now guaranteeing that RamSan
solid state disks will deliver faster performance than any competitive storage
product and that software application performance will be accelerated to the
satisfaction of customers. This guarantee is an industry first and is expected
to increase the number of organizations trying, and ultimately using, solid
state technology to accelerate their software applications.
Organizations
that are unfamiliar with solid state disks performance and price-performance
metrics often end up with a poor return on investment by adding processors, RAM,
hard drives, monolithic RAID or constantly re-coding databases when trying to
solve application performance problems, A solid state disk is a very cost
effective way to solve performance issues.
Solid state disks are
strategically used to accelerate enterprise applications like databases, OLTP
(online transaction processing), OLAP (online analytical processing), modeling,
and data acquisition. Typical users include corporations in the financial,
telecom, broadcasting, and e-commerce sectors as well as government, military
and research organizations.
In a recent independent survey*, people who
already used solid state disks (all manufacturers) were asked to rate their
experience of the benefits delivered, compared to expectations. 65% said solid
state disk greatly exceeded expectations; 6% said their experience exceeded
expectations and 6% said their experience met expectations. While 12% said they
were mildly disappointed, nobody (zero percent) was strongly disappointed. When
asked what would make it easier to buy solid state disk technology and remove
doubts and risks which currently act as roadblocks, 52% suggested performance
guarantees and 44% suggested try-before-you-buy programs.
"Many customers
are implementing multiple storage tiers that offer different levels of
performance, based on measurable cost/benefit advantages," said David Freund,
Information Architectures Practice Leader at Illuminata. "Yet most shy away from
adding a higher-performance solid state disk tier based solely on cost. Assuring
customers their expectations will be met or exceeded with a money-back guarantee
removes a significant obstacle, enabling more IT shops to consider using solid
state disk in their storage infrastructures."
"Before CIOs invest in
solid state disk technology they want to know if it will deliver the desired
performance within their own unique IT environment," said Woody Hutsell, Texas
Memory Systems' Executive Vice President. "We can make reasonable predictions
about performance. However, an actual installation removes any doubt. Our
guarantee mitigates the financial risk of investing in Texas Memory Systems'
solid state storage making us the safest investment."
The guarantee can
be summarized as follows and full details are available at www.superSSD.com/guarantee.htm:
Guarantee Relative To
Competitive Storage Products: Texas Memory Systems guarantees that qualifying
RamSan solid state systems will perform faster than any competitive storage
product currently owned by qualifying customers. If a RamSan unit does not
outperform the customer's existing storage in a head-to-head benchmark**, the
RamSan unit may be returned within 30 days of delivery and Texas Memory Systems
will refund all related Texas Memory Systems hardware charges.
Guarantee
Relative To Application Performance Satisfaction: Texas Memory Systems
guarantees that qualifying RamSan solid state systems will accelerate the
software application performance of qualifying customers, by whatever
measurement the customer chooses and documents. If the RamSan unit does not
accelerate the software application performance to a level acceptable to the
customer, the RamSan unit may be returned within 30 days of delivery and Texas
Memory Systems will refund all related Texas Memory Systems hardware charges,
minus a 10% restocking fee.
About Texas Memory Systems
Texas Memory
Systems (http://www.texmemsys.com) manufactures the World's Fastest
Storage® and is the market leader in solid state disks. Their RamSan line of
solid state storage is used to accelerate enterprise applications like OLTP
databases, batch processes, and data warehouses, modeling and video editing.
Founded in 1978, they sell direct to large enterprise and government
organizations. They also sell through OEM and reseller partners.
* http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdsurvey.html
** Benchmark
Test Requirements: Identical capacities and identical interfaces (including
equal port count) must be tested using the IOMeter open source benchmark tool.
IOMeter must be set for any block size transaction, 100% random data access, and
20 outstanding I/Os.
Texas Memory Systems, World’s Fastest Storage,
RamSan and Active Backup are trademarks or registered trademarks of Texas Memory
Systems.
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