Solid-State Storage Appliances Make Good Business Sense

That is the title a certain storage vendor gave a press release that arrived in my mailbox today. Regular readers might have noticed that I tend to take press releases with a grain of salt; but this one was a real gem. I won’t give the name of the company that sent it here, but [...]

StorSpeed presents direct competitor for Avere FXT series caching appliances

Caching for NAS and SAN systems has been a hot topic the last few days. Late last month Dataram presented their XcelaSAN appliance that sits between a Fibre Channel SAN and the clients accessing it, storing data in RAM. A couple of days ago, Avere Systems announced the FXT series of NAS caching appliances using [...]

Dataram launches SAN caching appliance

Dataram finally launched their “mystery product”; it turns out I was on the right track with my predictions about this last month:

My best guess at this moment is that their new product will be a caching appliance that can be inserted transparently between a storage system and the clients; probably only for NAS devices at first, [...]

Dataram gives more details about their mystery product

The mystery new product Dataram has been talking about appears to be a plug-in transparent caching appliance that can be inserted between a storage system and client systems; but this technology has already been patented by a company called Storspeed. [...]

Dataram to compete against Density Dynamics?

Dataram, a company new to the storage industry that currently specializes in RAM memory modules, just announced plans to enter the storage business:

Dataram Corporation [NASDAQ: DRAM], a worldwide leader of advanced memory solutions, today announced plans to launch a unique storage product line that will deliver application performance improvements as well as cost savings without the [...]