Corporate Overview
Founded in 1967 – before Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems – Dataram Corporation is a recognized worldwide leader in the manufacture of high quality computer memory, storage and software products. Our primary focus is to deliver measurable value to our customers through the introduction and deployment of solutions which optimizes data center and application performance, while at the same time delivering significant cost savings. Our goal and objective in engaging with your company is to deliver these benefits and cost reductions in a timely and transparent way to your business.
Dataram products and solutions are deployed in 70 Fortune 100 companies. We also maintain a significant presence within civilian governmental agencies and the Department of Defense who use our products for the most demanding mission critical applications. In addition, we have consistently delivered significant value to a long list of mid-tier customers. Lastly, many major equipment manufacturers needing embedded memory or storage solutions rely on Dataram's engineering, intellectual capital and patents to successfully deliver and support their products in their respective markets.
Dataram is, and continues to be, a valued strategic business partner and consistently demonstrates commitment to our customer base through investment in R&D and employment of accomplished engineers, product developers and solution consultants. We operate a state-of-the-art US manufacturing facility which runs under stringent ISO 9001 standards. We maintain strategically located distribution centers and sales offices located on three continents.
For more than 40 years, our products and services have set the worldwide standard for reliability, quality and cost efficiency.
Value Proposition
Unique offerings to grow your business and improve your bottom line
Technical insight and knowledge that brings value to your business
Understanding your business is essential
Ready to Deliver
Many organizations today are faced with the challenge of how to make significant reductions in data center and application expenses, while at the same time expanding services and optimizing performance. Dataram stands ready to deliver. Our portfolio of memory and storage products, performance software, and optimization services, uniquely positions Dataram to successfully achieve these objectives within your organization. To realize these goals, our customers are offered the opportunity to participate in our Performance Optimization and Total Cost of Computing Reduction (POTCC) Program.
The POTCC Program is a unique consulting service that includes a comprehensive performance and cost analysis of your existing hardware, software and resident applications. This analysis can be performed on your entire data center and application portfolio or a designated sub-segment.
The analysis will assess the cost of current spend and performance metrics associated with the specified target(s) which will define the “As-Is” model. Completing this step provides the basis to design an ideal end-state “To-Be” model which represents a roadmap for optimized hardware/software spend and customer satisfaction. In addition to cost optimization, the program will improve operational performance and customer satisfaction through performance tuning of mission critical applications and recommend Dataram memory and storage products that deliver substantial and immediate cost reductions.
Below is a summary of our POTCC Program:
The POTCC Program is based on documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) developed from years of field experience. While highly standardized, the delivery model is also customizable to insure maximum efficiency. Our customers have experienced significant performance improvements and cost reductions after our deployment of the aforementioned steps. As part of a continuous process improvement program, other customers request that Dataram perform these steps quarterly or bi-annually to ensure optimization and cost reductions opportunities are continually occurring.
Significant cost saving opportunities that can be deployed quickly, easily and without introducing additional risk
Due to the imbedded nature of memory & storage in their IT infrastructure, most customers are not aware that upwards of 60% of their hardware costs are related to these components. While it may appear to be a commodity at first glance, OEM memory and storage are typically the highest margin items for server and storage manufacturers. On a unit by unit basis these costs do not appear to be material. However, when viewed as a “rolled up” category on a hardware budget or when purchasing a large number of servers or storage devices, IT managers are often surprised at the magnitude of savings that can be achieved through different sourcing alternatives and approaches. By providing customers with a quantifiable perspective of memory and storage costs and alternative approaches, Dataram can construct alternative computing strategies that will optimize current and future spend without introducing any additional risk into your computing environment. Such knowledge is valuable for events such as; major IT cost cutting initiatives, Operating System/application upgrades, new system rollouts, system refreshes, server consolidations and mergers & acquisitions situations.
Unique offerings to grow your business and improve your bottom line
As part of this program, Dataram will leverage our other unique set of complimentary program offerings that bring additional benefits to your business including:
- Enterprise pricing models for our memory and storage products that deliver a minimum savings target of at least 30% when compared to your current expenditures. Customized Volume Pricing Agreements can include programs to cover your entire memory/storage portfolio or a sub-segment of that.
- Construction of a simulated lab environment at Dataram facilities for pretesting and certification purposes prior to deploying our solutions at your facilities. At your request, our test lab can also be used for your own internal testing purposes.
- Deployment of a trade-in trade-up program that will provide you the opportunity to recover equity on swapped out memory modules that you otherwise would receive no credit for.
- Access to our 60 Day No Obligation Memory and Storage Evaluation Program which will allow you to deploy our products and validate expected benefits prior to purchasing.
- Access to non-fee based consultative services provided by our product and engineering specialists which:
- Deliver memory pricing and storage forecasts to ensure purchases are occurring at the right time so that you don’t unnecessarily overpay.
- Construction of customized pricing protection programs to your company for newly introduced technology that typically hits the market at unfavorable pricing. This program delivers an “interim” solution to address your immediate needs with a roadmap to acquire the new technology at a more favorable price point. The program will also credit you for the purchase of the interim technology to ensure the benefits and cost savings of this program are realized.
- An analysis of how our double density memory products (which are not available by the OEM’s) can lead to consolidation of servers and reduction of necessary software licenses which result in significant cost savings.
- Substantial support in leveraging your negotiating positions during your procurement process to ensure the most favorable pricing is provided to your company. This is accomplished by:
- Using Dataram memory and storage products as a basis for comparison and positioning
- Introducing Dataram “OEM Original” Memory as a viable alternative
- Access to our Guardian program which represents the most comprehensive service, support and warranty program in the industry including such critical elements as onsite spares, service call reimbursement, prepaid service dollars and our lifetime warranty (for our memory products).
Technical insight and knowledge that brings value to your business
The rate of data generation has exceeded Moore’s Law. Unfortunately, CPU technology is arguably at or near its peak in terms of architectures e.g. x86 & RISC. Contemporary strategies to manage this dilemma consist of combining physically independent processing platforms e.g. Duo-Core, Clusters, Grid, Blade Servers, etc. Exacerbating this situation is the current demand to reduce energy consumption by consolidating physical servers and applications using virtualization technology. What is required is a major evolution in processor architecture. Until that time, optimization of existing processing capacity while reducing CPU platforms is the only viable solution.
Dataram consultants are experts in IT infrastructure technologies including, hardware, applications and network architecture. Our performance optimization services will restore problematic applications to acceptable performance levels by tuning of the existing environment. Through our years of experience, we are proficient in recognizing opportunities to deploy Dataram memory and storage products which deliver immediate performance improvements while at the same time, reducing costs. These gains are achieved without introducing any additional risk into your computing environment.
Understanding your business is essential
In order to maximize the effect and impact we have on your business, we believe it is imperative that Dataram maintains a deep understanding of exactly how your business operates, competes, and is intimately familiar with the critical success factors which are relevant within your industry.
As a result, Dataram has structured industry vertical solutions teams to ensure we can quickly and effectively deliver value to your business. Some of the benefits of this approach include:
- Our ability to deploy industry vertical solution teams that have unique insight into the most memory, storage and performance-driven applications and the underlying platforms within each industry.
- Industry specific knowledge that facilitates and accelerates the identification of performance issues impacting your business and remediation plans to address them. These same individuals maintain specialized knowledge on how to identify and introduce significant cost savings related to your data center and supported applications.
- Customers within each industry vertical are assigned a solutions specialist with expertise in that particular industry. This one-on-one service approach ensures that we can meet the specific needs of each customer and achieve optimal results for their business.
- Dataram maintains advisory boards within each industry vertical. Each board is made up of experienced senior executives who provide us with strategic advice on how to best serve their particular industry.
- At the grass-roots level, Dataram also operates performance and optimization computing user groups for a variety of industry verticals. The groups include system administrators and other key support professionals. They provide us with critical insight into their everyday challenges and computing problems so that we can develop the solutions to meet their specific needs.
