Is record-busting system on terror watch?
Is record-busting system on terror watch?
Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has announced that its OEM, Dynamic Solutions International has installed a 2.5 Terabyte Tera-RamSan at a customer site, easily making it the world's largest single installation of a solid state disk storage system. The previous largest installation was under 500 GB.
To put it into some perspective, the system, which came with a list price of US$4.7 million, is around 10,000 times the size of RAM in an average PC.
While Texas Memory Systems declined to name the customer, who asked not to be identified, it has emerged that the purchaser of the enormous RAM is none other than the U.S. Government.
TMS said the purchase was made to meet a demand for continuous and immediate access to data and to accelerate critical database applications, metadata and to maintain a technological edge.
This has led to conjecture that the government's Department of Homeland Security was behind the purchase, to more efficiently manage and access information on suspected terrorists, though nobody was about to confirm any such thing.
But Holly Frost, CEO of Texas Memory Systems, did confirm that the implementation was highly significant.
"This is a momentous installation that enables the client to take advantage of the latest advances in solid state disk technology. The lower pricing and unique features in the Tera-RamSan meet the market's increasing need for speed. I believe we will see even greater deployment of terabyte-plus solid state disks for demanding organisations that assess the Total Cost of Ownership of the entire solution."
"Our customers demand high returns on their IT investments," said Chris Johnson, Vice President of Storage Systems for Dynamic Solutions International. "Solid state disks enable companies to stretch IT budgets by increasing productivity without spending more on new servers or upgrades and the incremental costs of associated with managing them."
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