Read What All The Buzz Is About
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:
TechTarget/Storage Channel Pipeline – XcelaSAN featured in The Top 10 Percent List
October 3, 2011 - In a blog post written by Storage Switzerland Sr. Analyst Eric Slack, XcelaSAN makes the list:
"Rather than wait until January to do a "top 10" piece on storage products and technologies, I'm starting now. Let's just call it an end-of-the-(fiscal)-year product review. Also, rather than trying to put these products in any kind of order (too subjective, and why limit it to 10?) I thought I would call this the "Top 10 (percent) list." At Storage Switzerland, we take upward of a dozen technology reviews each week; that's 200 to 300 each year. The ones presented in this blog and subsequent entries (we'll spread these out through the fourth quarter) all deserve a look. They're storage-related, they have compelling approaches to common problems and they're all available to VARs. But most importantly, these products may help complete a solution you're working on—or get you into a new account.
Network World – XcelaSAN featured in Products of the Week Article
March 7, 2011 - Network World has listed Dataram’s XcelaSAN Model 100 as one of thirteen “intriguing new products” in this week’s edition of their Products of the Week article:
“XcelaSAN Model 100 with High Availability for mission-critical applications can boost the performance of high I/O performance up to 30 times with block-level read and write caching. Also includes an enhanced Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI), an improved SNMP management interface; and advanced performance monitoring and statistics reporting to assist with SAN performance planning.”
Storage Switzerland LLC – How Data Centers Can Benefit from SSD Today
March 7, 2011 — The next step in solid state deployment, and potentially the most logical first step for many environments, is the use of an advanced caching system like those offered by Dataram. Their XcelaSAN product is a caching device that sits logically in front of the storage system but, unlike basic caching appliances, is able to be implemented with block devices. Similar to basic caching it also doesn’t suffer the data movement back and forth between tiers. However, because it is block based, it supports the applications and infrastructures most likely to need and most able take advantage of cache based systems. It also means that most file system based environments could still be supported as long as the NAS device accesses its storage through the SAN. A NetApp vFiler is an example of a NAS that can benefit from a block based, advanced caching system.
The second big difference with advanced caching is that it provides a performance boost to write, as well as read I/O. This means that the most expensive storage I/O task is now finally accelerated and that the advanced cache provides a performance boost as soon as it’s implemented; in other words no warm up time. Write caching also means that writes can be made to disk in a more consistent fashion, which optimizes the use of the mechanical array for those operations.
Full Article (PDF) – How Data Centers Can Benefit from SSD Today
eWEEK - The new appliance can improve storage I/O performance up to 30 times using block-level read-and-write caching
March 2, 2011 — Dataram, a New Jersey-based memory and data storage-making company with a history that dates back to 1967, launched a new storage optimization appliance Feb. 28 for midrange-size Fibre Channel SANs.
Dataram's solid-state XcelaSAN Model 100 with High Availability, the latest in a line of other similar appliances, is designed for optimizing 24/7-type mission-critical applications. The plug-and-play machine can improve I/O performance up to 30 times using block-level read-and-write caching, Dataram CTO Jason Caulkins told eWEEK.
Storage Switzerland LLC Industry Expert George Crump Issues Briefing Note Praising Dataram's XcelaSAN
January 24, 2011 — George Crump, a recognized expert within the storage industry recently said in a briefing note, "We have been following the progress of Dataram's XcelaSAN for almost two years now. They took a very cautious approach to producing a product and waited until it was right before releasing to the market. The result is a product and a company that I believe you can trust. There are amazing benefits from leveraging solid state disk for caching, even more when you trust the system to do write caching. That trust has to come with some high availability capability which is difficult to get just right. It seems that Dataram has cracked that code."
A PDF version of Mr. Crump's briefing is available here
George Crump is President and Founder of Storage Switzerland. With 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS and SAN. Prior to founding Storage Switzerland he was CTO at one the nations largest storage integrators where he was in charge of technology testing, integration and product selection.
Dataram's XcelaSAN to Enhance DoD Missile Performance
Modeling and Simulation Applications Targeted
November 16, 2010 — Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) has purchased and installed the XcelaSAN® storage acceleration appliance for use in its missile defense research. XcelaSAN is designed to increase the performance of a storage area network to simulate missile detection, interceptions and counter measures. Dataram is also a provider of server and workstation memory products to JHU/APL.
Companies that need to maximize the performance, high availability and life span of their existing storage infrastructure will benefit from Dataram’s XcelaSAN storage acceleration appliance.
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.
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.
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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."
