News Analysis  Texas aims solid state disc at SMEs  Texas Memory
Systems has launched a solid state disc aimed at the SME and
branch office market.  The RamSan-300 can sustain more than
200,000 random I/Os per second and 1.5Gbytes per second of
bandwidth, which virtually eliminates lag time between high
performance processors and access to stored data.  Solid state
disc systems act as performance accelerators rather than simple
data repositories and can hugely accelerate the performance of
high I/O operations such as relational database transactions.
They use memory chips instead of rotating platters for data
storage and are therefore faster than regular discs because
there is no read/write head that has to move.  They allow
database managers to increase the number of concurrent users and
simultaneous transactions without adding servers, Ram or disc
arrays.  Don Burleson, CEO of Burleson Consulting, said, “User
wait times can often be eliminated by simply speeding up an
application’s log files and indices. By