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Texas Memory Systems, Inc

15th generation of The World’s Fastest Storage™Over 32 yrs of solid state storage experiencePrivately held; no VC & no long term debtGlobal in presence

RamSan’s Did You Know?

Used in the largest SSD installations in the world

Operate in 9 major financial exchanges worldwide

Used by 7 out of 10 of the world’s largest telecoms

Installed in over 35 countries

Business productivity and cost reductionIT and business alignmentBusiness agility and speed to marketBusiness process re-engineeringIT cost reductionIT reliability and efficiencyIT strategic planningRevenue generating IT innovationsSecurity and privacyCIO leadership role – Trend: ~50% now report directly to the CEO

RamSan is here to assist and alleviate over 80% of these day to day concerns…

…have you thought to how much better your business could run with the award winning RamSan?

Top 10 Concerns of Today’s CIO

RamSan-300,400,440

RamSan-500,620

RAM-BasedNetwork Attached

FLASH-BasedNetwork Attached

FLASH-BasedDirect Attached

TMS Product PortfolioSYSTEMS

PCI

RamSan-10/20

Introducing: RamSan-630

1-5TB capacity250,000 IOPS3GB/s throughputLatency 80-250 µs

Formerly highest density SLC Flash SSD systemAudited SPC-1 test demonstrate lowest average latency and lowest cost per SPC-1 IOPS of any Flash SSD tested.Easily shared and multipathed through eight 4Gbit Fibre Channel ports or 4x InfiniBand.Enterprise Reliability

Single Layer Cell (SLC) FlashFault Tolerant Flash (FTF) ArchitectureActive Spare Feature

RamSan-620

RamSan-620 SPC.1 ResultsSPC.1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARYTEXAS MEMORY SYSTEMS, INC.TEXAS MEMORY SYSTEMS RAMSAN-620/5TB

SPC-1 V1.11Submitted for Review: October 27, 2009 Identifier: A00085

Throughput Data - Response TimeI/O Request Throughput

50% Load 80% Load 100% Load127,521.34 203,995.39 254,994.21

Average Response Time (ms):All ASUs 0.29 0.41 0.72Reads 0.34 0.41 0.62Writes 0.26 0.41 0.79

AVERAGE POWER CONSUMPTION – 230 Watts

Management Control Processor

Redundant Power

Supplies

4 Dual-ported Fibre Channel

Redundant Fans

1-5TB of SLC Flash Boards

2U Chassis

RamSan-620 Architecture

Super capacitors

RAID-5 Protected Flash250 GB usable, 343 GB RAW

Two Flash Controllers

Embedded PowerPC

750 MB RAM

RamSan-620 Fault Tolerant Flash

2-10TB capacity500,000 IOPS8 GB/s throughputLatency 80-250 µsHighest density SLC Flash SSD system available.Leverages proven flash core from the RamSan-20 and RamSan-620Easily shared and multipathed through ten 4Gbit Fibre Channel ports or QDR InfiniBand ports (Q3)Enterprise Reliability

Single Layer Cell (SLC) FlashFault Tolerant Flash (FTF) ArchitectureActive Spare Feature

RamSan-630

Management Control Processor

Redundant Power

Supplies

5 Dual-ported Fibre Channel

Redundant Fans

2-10TB of SLC Flash Boards

3U Chassis

RamSan-630 Architecture

Super capacitors

RAID-5 Protected Flash500 GB usable, 686 GB RAW

Four Flash Controllers

Embedded PowerPC

On Board RAMECC Protected

RamSan-630 Fault Tolerant Flash

225/450GB capacity120,000 read IOPS50,000 write IOPS700MB/s throughputLatency 50µsOn-board Flash Management

Preserves Server CPU and RAMBest performance among PCI Express Cards

Bursts I/O longer than competitor cardsSustains higher I/O than competitor cards

Best-in-class write latency and write I/OEnterprise Reliability

Single Layer Cell (SLC) FlashFault Tolerant Flash (FTF) Architecture

RamSan-10/20

(1) PCIe 1.1 Spec x4(2) Power PC CPU 333mHz(3) Xilinx FPGA(4) 450GB SLC Flash

(640GB total)(5) 750MB DRAM(6) Super Capacitors(7) Full Height

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128,000Burst

12 years25% writesLife Expectancy

15 wattsPower drawFull heightPCIe x4Form factor

333-MHzPower PCCPU80µsLatency500 MB/sWrite700 MB/sReadBandwidth100,000Read at 70%Random R/W

50,000Random Write

120,000 Random ReadIOPS4KBBlock SizeSLCNAND Type450-GBCapacity

RamSan-20 Specifications

115,000Burst

128,000Burst

12 years25% writesLife Expectancy

15 wattsPower drawFull heightPCIe x4Form factor

333-MHzPower PCCPU80µsLatency500 MB/sWrite700 MB/sReadBandwidth100,000Read at 70%Random R/W

50,000Random Write

120,000 Random ReadIOPS4KBBlock SizeSLCNAND Type450-GBCapacity

RamSan-20 Specifications

RamSan-20 Architecture

Texas Memory Systems Customers and Partners

See the Case Study section of our Web site for details of the RamSan customers you can reference.

TMS Reference List

• 1st Installation: Reduced Batch Run from 15 Hours to 3 Hours (5x Improvement)

• 2nd Installation: Deployed additional units to handle web traffic after CEO Guest Spot on The Oprah Winfrey Show caused flood of concurrent users

"We knew our IT infrastructure was about to be slammed and that we would need a quick and effective way to handle an unprecedented level of concurrent visitors to our site. We needed equipment from Texas Memory Systems in a hurry and they were there for us. Since the show aired on November 13th, our new infrastructure is helping us take maximum advantage of the exposure." Tom Birmingham, CTO of The Container Store

RamSan-620RamSan-620

RamSan-440

EMC CX500

The Container Store

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Online auction site•

70,000 concurrent users

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1.1 Million simultaneous auctions•

Using just a pair of small (32 GB) RamSans reduced application response time and increased throughput by 20%

Trade Me

Over 100 RamSan systems in production supporting 3 core revenue-generating systems. Moving key Oracle tablespaces from the existing storage array Doubled application performance, even though the tablespaces in the storage array were served from cache.

Major US Exchange

SPC-1 Results

Texas Memory Systems RamSan-620 has the Lowest Cost per SPC-1 IOPS™ for any Flash SSD and a record low Average Response time according to the Storage Performance Council (SPC) SPC-1 Test record.*

SPC-1 IOPS ™ - 254,994.21Low Cost per SPC-1 IOPS ™ - $1.13World Record Low Average Response Time - .19 ms

“The test results demonstrate that customers can achieve higher performance and lower cost for performance with RamSan SSDs.”

* Based on TMS testing audited (A00085) and published by the Storage Performance Council (storageperformance.org)

2009 SPC Audited Testing

Average Response Time vs IOPS

Texas Memory Systems RamSan-620

IBM POWER™595 WITH POWERVM™(SSDs)

IBM System Storage DS8300 Turbo

IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 4.2

EMC Clarion CX3 Model 40

3PAR InServ® T800 Storage Server

HP StorageWorks XP24000 (Hitachi USPV)

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RamSan Latency Advantage!

Contact info

name: Tim Polland email: tpolland@takan.comphone: +43 650 399 4800

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RamSan-500

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Response Time vs IOPS