NextIO OEM of Texas Memory

Texas Memory Systems has entered into an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement with NextIO, in next-generation I/O virtualisation.

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By combining Texas Memory Systems’ RamSan Flash with its ICA-2800 Chassis, NextIO will provide data centre customers with an extremely high performance storage solution that is highly space efficient. The joint solution utilises NextIO’s PCIe expansion chassis to create a virtualised pool of RamSan PCIe Flash that can be shared across multiple servers to improve performance, efficiency, and manageability in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments and data centres that need to accelerate applications and databases. Next IO will demonstrate the solution at Super Computing 2009 in Portland, Oregon.
 
NextIO’s ICA-2800 PCIe expansion chassis creates a pool of I/O resources that is easily managed by the server administrator. By adding RamSan PCIe Flash from Texas Memory Systems to the chassis, administrators can accelerate their applications and improve the productivity of their servers using a localised PCIe solution instead of a large SAN infrastructure. Texas Memory Systems PCIe storage is easily integrated into the NextIO ICA-2800 because of its on-board management and simple drivers. The card provides enterprise class reliability due to its Error Correction Coding and RAID protection and offers unmatched performance.
 
“Through our partnership with Texas Memory Systems, we are better able to optimise the performance and needs of Enterprise and HPC environments,” said DaWane Wanek, vice president of worldwide sales at NextIO. “Our partnership will allow customers to experience rapid application response and uncompromising reliability while leveraging the convenience and efficiency of PCIe attachment. As NextIO established an initiative to deliver increased high performance storage, the decision to partner with Texas Memory Systems was an easy one. Texas Memory Systems has a long history of performance leadership, unique engineering depth, and ability to deliver the levels of reliability that are critical to success in the Enterprise arena.”
 
NextIO demonstrated a bundled storage appliance utilising 8 or more TMS RamSan-10 PCIe SSD cards performing at 1.2M IOPs or greater at SC09. The system on display had a mix of ten RamSan-10 and RamSan-20 PCIe Flash cards in an ICA-2800 chassis, delivering sustained performance in excess of 1.2 million IOPs from 3U of rack space. In a full rack deployment, the system can deliver 15 million IOPs from a single rack for unmatched performance density.
 
“Texas Memory Systems developed its PCIe products with a focus on easy integration, high performance and enterprise reliability for hardware and application OEMs,” said Woody Hutsell. “We were very impressed at how thorough NextIO was in assessing our product for reliability and durability, as well as the efficiency of our PCIe implementation. They made it clear that leading performance needed to be matched by solid engineering and uncompromising reliability.”