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Dataram Named a Finalist in 2009 Products of the Year Competition
January 27, 2010
XcelaSAN® Intelligent Storage Optimization Appliance Recognized for Innovation and Value
Princeton, NJ, January 27, 2010 — Dataram Corporation [NASDAQ: DRAM], a worldwide leader in the manufacture of high-quality computer memory, storage products and software, 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. Winners will be announced in February after having been judged by the TechTarget Storage Media Group editorial staff and a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants.
“Dataram's high-performance storage products reduce companies' total cost of computing and maximize the performance capability of IT infrastructure and investment,” said John Freeman, Dataram’s CEO. “The XcelaSAN offers a game-changing proposition to companies needing high-end performance from their mid-range storage systems. This value is acknowledged in our receiving the Products of the Year finalist recognition and we are pleased to have been named among the past year's most innovative solutions.”
Dataram's unique storage optimization appliance enables IT managers to cost-effectively accelerate application data access on Fibre Channel SANs. XcelaSAN is a new and better solution to I/O bottlenecks that delivers high-end performance from mid-range storage systems. “This appliance provides for easy integration and interoperability to existing storage systems,” said Alan Niebel, Founder and CEO, Web-Feet Research. XcelaSAN is a cost-effective, highly available solution with industry-best pricing per I/O. The new storage optimization appliance leverages Dataram's 42-year history of memory and storage expertise to deliver enterprise-level reliability, availability and scalability—including hot-swappable, redundant power supplies, ECC, chip kill technology, internal mirrored flash drives and high availability SAN configurations with no single point of failure. The XcelaSAN appliance installs in about an hour with no new host software required, and is managed through a Web-based browser for user-friendly operation.
By delivering up to 30x performance improvements to applications, XcelaSAN provides investment protection by extending the life of the existing infrastructure and lowering the overall cost of storage ownership for organizations. In addition, as the customer's storage infrastructure changes or consolidates, the new environment automatically benefits from XcelaSAN’s intelligent storage optimization technology.
About Dataram
Founded in 1967, Dataram is a worldwide leader in the manufacture of high-quality computer memory, storage and software products. Our products and services deliver IT infrastructure optimization, dramatically increase application performance and deliver substantial cost savings. Dataram solutions are deployed in 70 Fortune 100 companies and in mission-critical government and defense applications around the world. For more information about Dataram, visit www.dataram.com.
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