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Dataram’s XcelaSAN has received a tremendous positive response from VARs, analysts, thought leaders, and customers in the storage arena. Leading industry partners and analysts agree that XcelaSAN delivers unique value and investment protection for users of mid-range storage infrastructure:

 

Dataram Named Finalist in
2009 Products of the Year Competition

XcelaSAN® Intelligent Storage Optimization Appliance Recognized for Innovation and Value

January 27, 2010 — Dataram Corporation has been recognized as a finalist for Storage Magazine's and SearchStorage.com's enterprise data storage Products of the Year awards. Dataram's XcelaSAN has been selected in the Storage Networking Equipment category, along with other notable companies such as Brocade, NetApp and QLogic.

With 40 nominees in 15 categories, Products of the Year finalists represent a select group of vendors who meet requirements for exceptional innovation, performance, functionality and value, as well as ease of integration, use and management.

 

IDC, December 2009
Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Drives

“The enterprise SSD market is poised to continue growing as vendors look to accelerate application performance and improve overall system productivity. Solutions, like Dataram with its proprietary software and cache algorithms, combined with a channel partner program will provide customers with easy access to high performance solid state storage technology."

 

Channel Web Magazine Online www.crn.com Monday, Sept. 28, 2009
Scott Hansen, Sales Manager for Enterprise Solutions, Melillo Consulting

“Financial firms can see big performance increases, and can use smaller arrays than before and actually save money…With Dataram, you can run all traffic through the appliance, or filter specific applications…As a channel partner, Dataram is excellent, they help us in a lot of cases to help customers save money, even before the economic downturn. XcelaSAN is an extension of what they already do.”

 

Enterprise Strategy Group, September 28, 2009
Mark Peters, Senior Analyst

“Dataram has years of experience, which is evident in the sound mix of technology and capability in its new XcelaSAN offering. The sweet spot for its intended mid-market users is a combination of performance, value, and ease. By delivering immediate performance and ROI improvements with its sophisticated and automated cache and flash integration – which also precludes the need for a wholesale storage system replacement – the company is aimed in just the right place.”

 

StorageSearch.com, September 28, 2009
Zsolt Kerekes, Editor

“The search for a self tuning agnostic SSD software layer which sits between a SAN server and conventional rotating disk bulk storage has been the Holy Grail of SSD oems for over a decade. None have actually achieved it - till now.”

“…a viable route for mid-budget user enterprises - who have been neglected by SSD vendors for economic reasons - to join the march of the SSD Revolution…”

 

TechAwardsCircle.com, Fall 2009

Jason Caulkins, Dataram Chief Technologist Named Tech Awards Circle Gold Winner for 2009

Jason Caulkins, Dataram Chief Technologist, selected as a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, taking Gold in the Technologist of the Year category. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers/journalists from nominations based on a broad range of achievements – from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators.

Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

"Despite overwhelmingly strong competition, Mr. Caulkins exhibited true industry excellence to be recognized among the top of the Tech Awards Circle," said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. "Our judges were pleased at the level of submissions from all the vendors entering this year’s competition, so to be named a winner of this prestigious award is a testament to the quality and innovation unrivaled in the high tech community."

 

IDC Product Flash, October 2009
Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Drives

“…IDC believes that the ability to provide dynamic allocation of the data (as Dataram does with its proprietary software and cache algorithms) is critical for increased SSD adoption……Dataram is now back in the storage market with a product that promises to eliminate the traditional purchase of underutilized disk capacity in the quest for improving application performance.”

 

Web-Feet Research, September 30, 2009
Alan Niebel, Founder and CEO; Walter Blount, Vice President, Storage Research

“…This appliance provides for easy integration and interoperability to existing storage systems. Dataram’s approach provides a caching appliance that is inserted between the server and storage array…”