White Papers
Texas Memory Systems offers many white papers about our products, relevant applications and industries, and the storage market at large. Read these papers for a fresh perspective.
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The Billion IOPS Solution
Texas Memory Systems gives you the same aggregate performance in a smaller, more efficient, market-tested package that’s compatible with the applications you actually use.
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An In-Depth Look at the RamSan-810 Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-810 packs up to 10 TB of the latest eMLC Flash in a compact 1U enclosure. It delivers up to 320,000 IOPS and 4 GB/s through its 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel or 40 Gb/s QDR InfiniBand connections.
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Faster SQL Server Access with Solid State Disks
Increasing processor power often has very little impact on SQL Server performance. The best option is to put the most frequently accessed database components on fast solid state disks.
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RamSan Database Mirroring Best Practices
As a standalone solution, database mirroring allows for a failover or recovery strategy as an economical approach to availability. It can also be coupled with Microsoft Cluster Services and a shared-storage RamSan to provide the highest availability.
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An In-Depth Look at the RamSan-710 Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-710 offers up to 5.15 TB of capacity in a 1U chassis that typically draws only 280 watts of power.
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An In-Depth Look at Variable Stripe RAID™ (VSR™)
Variable Stripe RAID (VSR) reduces the risk of uncorrectable errors occurring in user data on a Flash chip while preserving as much storage space as possible. By dynamically altering stripe size, VSR can drastically reduce wasted planes.
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An In-Depth Look at the RamSan-70 PCIe Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-70, the first member of the Series-7 family, offers up to 900GB of usable capacity (1.25 TiB raw capacity) in a half-length PCIe card that requires minimal power wattage.
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Faster SQL Server Access with Solid State Drives
This paper presents methods for improving SQL Server database performance using solid state disks to accelerate the most resource-intensive data that slows performance across the board.
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TMS History with the US DoD
This paper discusses the twenty-year history of involvement between Texas Memory Systems and the United States Department of Defense.
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DoD Industry Applications
This white paper discusses Department of Defense and Intelligence Community applications of Texas Memory Systems RamSan® products.
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Faster Oracle Performance with Solid State Disks
This paper presents methods for improving Oracle database performance using solid state disks to accelerate the most resource-intensive data that slows performance across the board.
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ASM and RamSan® Best Practices
Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is an all-inclusive approach to storage management, performance, and availability. This paper discusses best practices when using ASM with RamSan® SSDs.
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An In-depth Look at the RamSan-630 Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-630 is the densest high-performance SLC Flash-based enterprise storage on the market. It is completely non-volatile and incorporates a suite of reliability and error-correction strategies.
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An In-depth Look at the RamSan-630 Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-630 is the densest high-performance SLC Flash-based enterprise storage on the market. It is completely non-volatile and incorporates a suite of reliability and error-correction strategies.
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Quick Statspack and AWR Analysis
This paper discusses key aspects of Oracle Statspack and AWR reports that can be used to help understand true database performance.
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Oracle, TPC-C, and RamSans®
This white paper compares solid state disk and hard drive performance using the Oracle TPC-C benchmark.
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Flash Solid State Disk Reliability
Flash SSDs are already becoming commonplace in data center architectures and so are the strategies, software, and hardware utilities that allow Flash to function reliably in the most demanding environments.
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Understanding IOPS
This document is intended to explain how IOPS (I/Os per second) numbers are achieved and provide some practical advice to companies evaluating disks, RAIDs, and solid state disks.
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RamSan-20 PCIe Flash SSD: Expanding the Role of Flash in Enterprise
The RamSan-20 expands the horizon of solid state storage solutions, complementing the advantages of SAN and NAS, while offering powerful new choices and solutions in the cases where SAN and NAS architectures do not.
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In-Memory Databases vs. Solid State Disks (SSD)
SSDs make the process of implementing a complete memory solution as simple as transferring the database tables from the current storage device to a SSD and starting up the database.
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Utilizing Solid State Disks in the Securities Industry
SSDs offer increased performance to some of the most important applications in the securities industry. RamSan® products are proven solutions deployed globally to accelerate critical financial exchange, securities trading, and bank applications.
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Faster Oracle Performance with Solid State Disks
This paper presents methods for improving Oracle database performance using solid state disks to accelerate the most resource-intensive data that slows performance across the board.
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ASM and RamSan® Best Practices
Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is an all-inclusive approach to storage management, performance, and availability. This paper discusses best practices when using ASM with RamSan® SSDs.
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Improve Application Performance and Lower Costs
Reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for centralized SAN storage while improving application performance is best achieved with a balance of solid state disk (SSD) systems (Tier 0 SAN) and departmental RAID systems (Tier 2 SAN).
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Flash Solid State Disk Reliability
Flash SSDs are already becoming commonplace in data center architectures and so are the strategies, software, and hardware utilities that allow Flash to function reliably in the most demanding environments.
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Faster Sybase Performance with Solid State Disks
This whitepaper discusses methods for improving Sybase database performance, using solid state disks (SSD) to accelerate the most resource-intensive data that slows performance across the board.
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Understanding IOPS
This document is intended to explain how IOPS (I/Os per second) numbers are achieved and provide some practical advice to companies evaluating disks, RAIDs, and solid state disks.
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In-Memory Databases vs. Solid State Disks (SSD)
SSDs make the process of implementing a complete memory solution as simple as transferring the database tables from the current storage device to a SSD and starting up the database.
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RamSan-20 PCIe Flash SSD: Expanding the Role of Flash in Enterprise
The RamSan-20 expands the horizon of solid state storage solutions, complementing the advantages of SAN and NAS, while offering powerful new choices and solutions in the cases where SAN and NAS architectures do not.
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An In-depth Look at the RamSan-630 Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-630 is the densest high-performance SLC Flash-based enterprise storage on the market. It is completely non-volatile and incorporates a suite of reliability and error-correction strategies.
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An In-depth Look at the RamSan-440 Solid State Disk
Super fast SSDs, like the RamSan-440, allow organizations to perform very high transaction volumes and support larger numbers of concurrent users using fewer servers, thus increasing performance while lowering cost and administration efforts.
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An In-depth Look at the RamSan-620 Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-620 is the first enterprise Flash storage array that demonstrates an ability to compete with arrays of 15K RPM hard disk drives in density, cost, and reliability while offering stunning performance and power efficiency.
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An In-depth Look at the RamSan-500 Cached Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-500 is the world’s first cached flash solid state disk designed from the chip up to meet enterprise requirements for performance, scalability and reliability. The RamSan-500 is a fusion of DDR memory and Flash memory.
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The Ultimate Oracle Architecture: OPERA (Oracle Performance Enhancing Reliable Architecture)
By leveraging the available features of Oracle itself, and new technologies available from Texas Memory Systems (TMS), a high-performance, reliable, and cost-effective system can easily be constructed.
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Quick Statspack and AWR Analysis
This paper discusses key aspects of Oracle Statspack and AWR reports that can be used to help understand true database performance.
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Oracle, TPC-C, and RamSans®
This white paper compares solid state disk and hard drive performance using the Oracle TPC-C benchmark.
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Oracle, TPC-H, and RamSans®
This white paper compares performance of solid state storage and traditional hard drive storage using the Oracle TPC-H benchmark.
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Using Oracle ASM Preferred Read Failure Groups with RamSans®
This paper discusses the merits of using preferred read group (PRG) technology with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and solid state disks.
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Using the TMS Write Accelerator
This paper discusses key considerations when optimizing database write throughput using the TMS Write Accelerator.
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Validating Your IO Subsystem: Coming out of the Black Box
This paper explores different approaches to calculating the inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) numbers for your application.
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eCommerce with Flash Storage
This paper explains the benefits of solid state disks in eCommerce applications.
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Solid State Disks and the Telecom Industry
This paper explains how solid state disks can handle the demands of the telecommunications industry.
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High Performance Computing
This paper discusses how solid state disks can be used to keep compute nodes busy in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment.
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An In-depth Look at the RamSan-6300 Flash Solid State Disk
This white paper discusses the RamSan-6300, a 14U rack of RamSan-630 solid state disks which can sustain up to 12,600,000 IOPS and up to 140 GB/s bandwidth.
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Healthcare and Solid State Storage
This white paper discusses how solid state storage can address many challenges present in the healthcare industry.
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DoD Industry Applications
This white paper discusses Department of Defense and Intelligence Community applications of Texas Memory Systems RamSan® products.
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TMS History with the US DoD
This paper discusses the twenty-year history of involvement between Texas Memory Systems and the United States Department of Defense.
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Faster SQL Server Access with Solid State Drives
This paper presents methods for improving SQL Server database performance using solid state disks to accelerate the most resource-intensive data that slows performance across the board.
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An In-Depth Look at the RamSan-70 PCIe Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-70, the first member of the Series-7 family, offers up to 900GB of usable capacity (1.25 TiB raw capacity) in a half-length PCIe card that requires minimal power wattage.
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An In-Depth Look at Variable Stripe RAID™ (VSR™)
Variable Stripe RAID (VSR) reduces the risk of uncorrectable errors occurring in user data on a Flash chip while preserving as much storage space as possible. By dynamically altering stripe size, VSR can drastically reduce wasted planes.
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An In-Depth Look at the RamSan-710 Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-710 offers up to 5.15 TB of capacity in a 1U chassis that typically draws only 280 watts of power.
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Faster SQL Server Access with Solid State Disks
Increasing processor power often has very little impact on SQL Server performance. The best option is to put the most frequently accessed database components on fast solid state disks.
-
RamSan Database Mirroring Best Practices
As a standalone solution, database mirroring allows for a failover or recovery strategy as an economical approach to availability. It can also be coupled with Microsoft Cluster Services and a shared-storage RamSan to provide the highest availability.
-
An In-Depth Look at the RamSan-810 Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-810 packs up to 10 TB of the latest eMLC Flash in a compact 1U enclosure. It delivers up to 320,000 IOPS and 4 GB/s through its 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel or 40 Gb/s QDR InfiniBand connections.
-
The Billion IOPS Solution
Texas Memory Systems gives you the same aggregate performance in a smaller, more efficient, market-tested package that’s compatible with the applications you actually use.
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An In-depth Look at the RamSan-630 Flash Solid State Disk
The RamSan-630 is the densest high-performance SLC Flash-based enterprise storage on the market. It is completely non-volatile and incorporates a suite of reliability and error-correction strategies.
