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Texas Memory Systems, Incy y ,Texas Memory Systems designs and builds solid state storage systems for accelerating essential enterprise applications. The award-winning g p pp gRamSan product line, known as The World’s Fastest Storage®, delivers fast, reliable, and economical solutions to a broad base of enterprise and government clients worldwide. Founded in 1978, Texas Memory Systems

ti t hit t d i th f t f lid t t tcontinues to architect and engineer the future of solid state storage.

15th generation of The World’s Fastest Storage ™31 yrs of high performance storage experience

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Privately held; no VC & no long term debtGlobal presence

Market View of TMS

“TMS truly understands Samsung Flash ”

“TMS has positioned itself well within h t IDC b li i f t i

Flash. Samsung Memory Division

“TMS has a long history of what IDC believes is a fast growing market.” Jeff Janukowicz, IDC

TMS 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.” DaWane Wanek, NextIO 2009 Storage Performance

Council Testing

Windows IT Pro, Gold Medal Winner, 2008Texas Memory Systems owns the number 1, 2, & 3 spots for:

Lowest Avg Response Time$/SPC 1 IOPS

Gov’t Computer News, Best of FOSE,

$/SPC-1 IOPS

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2008

2009 SPC Audited Testingg

Texas Memory Systems RamSan-620 has the Lowest Cost per SPC-1 IOPS™ for any FlashLowest Cost per SPC-1 IOPS for any Flash SSD and a record low Average Response time according to the Storage Performance Council (SPC) SPC-1 Test record *(SPC) SPC-1 Test record.

SPC 1 IOPS ™ 254 994 21SPC-1 IOPS ™ - 254,994.21Low Cost per SPC-1 IOPS ™ - $1.13World Record Low Average Response Time - .72 msWorld Record Low Average Response Time .72 ms

“The test results demonstrate that customers can achieve higher performance and lower cost for performance with RamSan SSDs.”

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* Based on TMS testing audited and published by the Storage Performance Council (storageperformance.org)

Used a RamSan Lately?y

Sent a text message

Conducted a financial trade

Placed an online bet

Shopped online online bet

Booked a

online

Used pre-paid cruisewireless

Used an ATMGamed online

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TMS Product PortfolioSYSTEMS

RamSan-440

RAM-BasedNetwork Attached

RamSan 500FLASH-Based

Network Attached

RamSan 620

FLASH-BasedDirect Attached

PCI

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Direct AttachedRamSan 10/20

RamSan 440RamSan 440Management

Control Processor

RAID Protected RAM Boards

4 Dual-ported Fibre Channel or

Management Control

Processor

RAID Protected RAM Boards

4 Dual-ported Fibre Channel or Processor

Hot Swappable Redundant

P S li

Redundant Batteries

InfiniBand InterfacesProcessor

Hot Swappable Redundant

P S li

Redundant Batteries

InfiniBand Interfaces

Power Supplies

Redundant

Power Supplies

Redundant

RAID Protected Backup Flash

Fans

4U Chassis

RAID Protected Backup Flash

Fans

4U Chassis

RamSan 440: Industry Firsts

512GB Non-volatile RAM storage512GB Non volatile RAM storageRAM SSD with Flash backupRAID protected RAM and Flash

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TMS patented IO2 Instant-On Input-Output

RamSan 50016 – 64 GB DDR Cache

Management Control Processor, Cache Controller

16 – 64 GB DDR Cache

Management Control Processor, Cache Controller

RamSan 500

Up to 4 Dual-ported 4 Gbps FC

Ports

Redundant Batteries (to flush cache)

Up to 4 Dual-ported 4 Gbps FC

Ports

Redundant Batteries (to flush cache)

9 Hot Swappable Raid Protected Flash Modules

Redundant Power

Supplies9 Hot Swappable Raid Protected Flash Modules

Redundant Power

Supplies

RamSan 500: Enterprise Reference Standard for Flash

A blend of RAM and Flash storageA blend of RAM and Flash storageBlazing writes (RAM) & fast reads (Flash)High density (Flash)

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Low power consumption (Flash)

RamSan-620RamSan-620Management

Control Processor4 Dual-ported Fibre

Channel or Infiniband2 5 TB of SLC

Management Control Processor

4 Dual-ported Fibre Channel or Infiniband2 5 TB of SLC

Redundant Power

Supplies

Channel or Infiniband Interfaces

2-5 TB of SLC Flash Boards

Redundant Power

Supplies

Channel or Infiniband Interfaces

2-5 TB of SLC Flash Boards

Supplies

R d d t

Supplies

R d d t

RamSan 620: The “Giant Green Flash”

Redundant Fans2U Chassis

Redundant Fans2U Chassis

255,000 IOPS (4KB & 8KB Blocks) – SPC.1 Results½ the cost/GB of previous RamSan SSDs8 FC li k t 4Gb/ h8 FC links at 4Gb/s eachSLC, ECC, RAID (FTF), ‘Hot Spare’ FlashSimple Web / Ethernet management interface

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Simple Web / Ethernet management interfaceLow power consumption (Flash)

RamSan-620

RamSan-620 Specifications

Capacity 1-TB to 5-TB

NAND Type SLC

IOPs Random Read 250,000

Random Write 250 000Random Write 250,000

Random R/W Read at 70% 150,000

Bandwidth Read/Write 3.0 GB/s

Latency 80µs

Interfaces FC & IB

Life Expectancy 25% writes 25 years

Form factor Rack mount 2U

Power draw 325 watts

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Power draw 325 watts[230W at 25% Write]

RamSan-620 Architecture

Management Control Processor 4 Dual-ported Fibre

Ch l I fi ib d

R d d t

Channel or Infiniband Interfaces1-5 TB of SLC

Flash BoardsRedundant

Power Supplies

Redundant 2U Ch i

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Fans2U Chassis

RamSan-620 Fault Tolerant Flash

Super capacitorsEmbedded PowerPC Super capacitorsEmbedded PowerPC

RAID-5 Protected Flash250 GB usable, 343 GB RAW

750 MB RAM

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Two Flash Controllers

RamSan-10/20 PCIe CardRamSan-10/20 PCIe Card450GB usable (640GB raw) of On Board

CPU

Flash Controllers

SLC NAND FlashCPU

Ultra Capacitors

PCIe 1.1 x4

750MB RAM

RamSan-20: Powerfully, efficient performance

120K IOP at 700MB/s120K IOP at 700MB/s225/450GB usable SLC NAND FlashECC and RAID protection

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Low power consumption (Flash)

RamSan-10/20RamSan-20 SpecificationsCapacity 225/450-GBNAND Type SLCNAND Type SLCBlock Size 4KB +IOPS Random Read 120,000

Random Write 50,000Random R/W Read at 70% 70,000Bandwidth Read 700 MB/sBandwidth Read 700 MB/s

Write 500 MB/sLatency 50µsCPU Power PC 333-MHzLife Expectancy 25% writes 6/12 yearsForm factor PCIe x4 Full height

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gPower draw 15 watts

Response Time vs IOPS

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Average Response Time vs IOPS

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IBM POWER™595 WITH POWERVM™(SSDs)

HP StorageWorks XP24000 (Hitachi USPV)

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0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 350,000

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Customer Examples:

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TMS Reference List

See the Case Study section of our Web site for details of the RamSan customers you can reference.

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Deutsche Telekom

Problem: Seibel CRM system on Oracle could no ylonger scale.

Solution:Solution:Two RamSan-500 2TB systems mirrored with Oracle ASM.

Results:Deadline for application scaling metDeadline for application scaling met, currently in production supporting the world’s largest Siebel installation in the telecommunications industrytelecommunications industry.

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Problem: Random I/O workloads require >200 hard disks per instance for adequate SQL and application response time

Solution:F R S 500 2TB t f tFour RamSan-500 2TB systems front-ended by NetApp V6080 HA pair.

Results:Access times improved 3x for MS-SQL servers batch jobs complete in ½ timeservers, batch jobs complete in ½ time8U vs 42U per instance23K Watt reduction in peak power

i

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requirements

C t i StContainer Store

1 t I ll i R d d B h R f 15 H1st Installation: Reduced Batch Run from 15 Hours to 3 Hours (5x Improvement)2nd Installation: Deployed additional units to handle p yweb traffic after CEO Guest Spot on The Oprah Winfrey Show caused flood of concurrent users

"We knew our IT infrastructure wasWe knew our IT infrastructure was about to be slammed and that we would need a quick and effective way to handle an unprecedented level of concurrent visitors to ourlevel of concurrent visitors to our site. We needed equipment from Texas Memory Systems in a hurry and they were there for us. Since the show aired on November 13ththe show aired on November 13th, our new infrastructure is helping us take maximum advantage of the exposure." Tom Birmingham

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Tom Birmingham, CTO of The Container Store RamSan-400RamSan-400

RamSan-440

EMC CX500

Banco Azteca

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ComputersharepApplication:

Tiered option management and stock trading system with proprietary RMS based database and applications on back endproprietary RMS-based database and applications on back end and Windows-based Web front end.

Environment:HP Alpha Server GS1280 with HP EVA 8000 storage in SAN.

Challenge:Challenge:Deliver rapid online results to customers and complete high volume transaction processing quicker.

Solution:Solution:Four 128GB RamSan-400s

Result:500% performance500% performance improvement

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Major US ExchangeMajor US Exchange

66 R S t i d ti66 RamSan systems in production supporting 3 core revenue generating system. Moving key Oracle tablespaces from the existing storagetablespaces from the existing storage array Doubled application performance, even though the tablespaces in the storage array were

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tablespaces in the storage array were served from cache.

Discussion

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For more information about the RamSan:RamSan:

Rainer Thieme+49 (0) 6173 327 470+49 (0) 6173 327 470rthieme@hmk.de

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