Demartek Evaluates Texas Memory Oracle Real Application Cluster
With SSDs and 16Gb FC from Brocade
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on June 4, 2012 at 2:56 pmDemartek, LLC announces its evaluation of the Texas Memory Systems, Inc. high performance Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) reference architecture using 16 Gbps FC and solid state storage technology.
This architecture uses solid state storage technology from Texas Memory and 16 Gbps FC technologies from Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
"We observed sustained bandwidth of more than 7200 MB/sec with a three server Oracle RAC configuration using five host ports of 16 Gbps FC connected to a high-performance, three rack unit (3U) SSD storage solution from Texas Memory Systems," said Dennis Martin, Demartek president. "In reviewing benchmark results from the Storage Performance Council, this same level of performance requires at least 256 15,000rpm hard disk drives."