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Utilizing Solid State Disks in the Financial Industry

Financial Services companies are seeking technology that will enable them to process more transactions. This is being accomplished by implementing faster servers, more powerful applications, high-bandwidth networks, and high-performance storage, such as solid state disks. Solid state disks are a cost-effective way to improve application performance because they support outrageous...

Tags: Texas Memory Systems, Disk, Financial, Solid State Disk

White papers 2007-02-01

Increase Application Performance With Solid State Disks

Application performance can be finicky. One day an application is slowed by network latencies; another day it can be impacted by processor limits and, when everything else is going smoothly I/O bottlenecks pop up as more users make the application work harder. Solving performance problems and I/O bottlenecks can be...

Tags: Texas Memory Systems, Disk, Performance, I/O, Solid State Disk, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2006-05-01

IC Source Pinpoints Best Deal With RamSan Solid State Disk From Texas Memory Systems

IC Source, Inc. has been serving the time-critical and complex needs of electronic components brokers since 1996 with its advanced inventory database application. The company wanted to improve competitiveness of trading forum by eliminating backlog of updates to the inventory database. IC Source initially set up the RamSan-400 in a...

Tags: Texas Memory Systems, Database, Integrated Circuit, Semiconductors, Storage, Hardware

Case studies

RamSan Success Stories: Manufacturing Resource Planning in an IBM Environment

Thornwood Furniture designs and manufactures oak and maple furniture that enjoys a reputation for sustained quality and value throughout the United States and Canada. Thornwood's Manufacturing Resource Planning MRP application needed to grow to keep pace with its expanding business. Increased demands on the MRP system meant that the performance...

Tags: Texas Memory Systems, Environment, MRPII, IBM Corp., Thornwood, Manufacturing

Case studies

RamSan Success Stories: LuLu, Inc.

Lulu provides independent publishers with free access to on-demand publishing tools for books, e-books, music, images, calendars and more. The company wanted to enable higher customer traffic. As a solution the company deployed RamSan-320 from Texas Memory Systems which delivers over 250,000 random I/Os per second and 1500MB/s random sustained...

Tags: Texas Memory Systems, LuLu Inc., Cloud Computing, E-books, Personal Technology

Case studies

Additional Resources

Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooks

The tech industry is always looking for the next big thing: Bing is gaining on Google, the Palm Pre will dethrone the iPhone, and so on. One of the latest "next big things" is the duo of ARM and Android which, if you buy the hype, will wrest the PC...

Tags: Google Android, ARM, Smart Phone, Qualcomm Inc., Netbook, Tech Industry, Hardware Compatibility, SSD, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Smart Phones, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-06-15

AMD grabs "impressive" market share from Intel in Q1

AMD grabs "impressive" market share from Intel in Q1AMD will do well to become very pro Linux.With the purchasing power of FOSS builders and installers behind them, they could take another huge chunk whilst doing FOSS a service at the same time.The New AMDEvery time I see Adrian "what's his...

Tags: Linux, Processors, OPEN SOURCE, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?

The second day of the PPoPP 2009 conference started with a controversial keynote by Yale Patt from the University of Texas at Austin. It was so controversial, for me at least, that I decided to wait a few days to calm down before writing about it. He had three main...

Tags: Software, Hardware, Programmer, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 Netbook

Chip maker Freescale has announced that it will use Google's Android operating system for a new type of Netbook by next quarter. Though Google's Android software was originally developed for smartphones, Freescale believes it can use the flexible OS to make a new class of less-expensive mini-notebooks...

Tags: ARM, Netbook, Freescale, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-18

University of Houston's Advanced Computing Research Laboratory (ACRL) and Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2) Uses a Server Cluster Based on the AMD Opteron Processor for Leading-Edge Scientific Research Studies

The University of Houston's Texas Learning and Computation Center is a promising research center within the university, supporting the computational sciences and engineering, and computer science as cornerstones of the university's most innovative research. There was a shift of emerging disciplines within the life sciences (i.e., bioinformatics), from being largely...

Tags: University Of Houston, Server, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Server Cluster, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2009-01-01

Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics

In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-07-24

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC

Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...

Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Apple's PA Semi buyout: A defensive move?

According to reports, Apple purchased embedded chip maker PA Semi this week and the rumors are flying: that Apple is back in chipset business; or that Apple is going back to the PowerPC for some future device (since PA Semi made PowerPC-based processor). However, some chip analysts say that it...

Tags: Exponential Technology, Apple Inc., IBM PowerPC, Chip, PA Semi, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Massive memory servers

How massive? How about 10x standard server memory capacity? There is a boom in large memory server products - anywhere from a quarter terabyte to 2 terabytes. Is this the ultimate solution to server performance problems? Some products Violin Memory is offering a...

Tags: Performance, Metaram, Gear6, Performance Management, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-03-25

eVoting systems come under fire

As reported by Robert McMillan and Elizabeth Montalbano at IDG News Service, Sequoia voting systems web site has been hacked and subsequently taken down. Sequoia and its voting system is not new to the news, as it was recently investigated by the Attorney General of New Jersey...

Tags: Sequoia Software, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, E-voting, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-20

The battle for the soul of your smartphone

The cut-throat market for the chips that power smartphones and handhelds just got more competitive. In the past few days, no fewer than five semiconductors companies, including Samsung, ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and, yes, even Nvidia, have all announced new application processors: Nvidia APX 2500 press...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Processor, Mobile, Smart Phone, NVidia Corp., Chip, Application Processor, SoC, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-02-12

The T2 and media reaction

The UltraSPARC T2 announcements back on August 7th consisted of two separate stories. The first of these involved Sun's plan to sell it into the commodity processor market. Unfortunately almost nobody in the press understood either the announcement itself or where Sun's taking this, with the straight up treatment given...

Tags: Network technology, Processors, Paul Murphy, T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, UltraSparc T2

Blog posts 2007-09-04

Michael Dell: Anti-crapware poster CEO?

Michael Dell: Anti-crapware poster CEO?I doubt it..."Well if the cost of phone support for crapware is exceeding the the savings, then the cost of the PC should remain the same"That would make sense, but I have heard nothing but complaints from Dell customers getting 0 software support on new Dells....

Tags: Desktops, crapware, PC, Crapware

Discussion threads 2007-07-10

Softick Card Export for Windows Mobile 3.18 (Mobile)

Softick Card Export 3.xx for Windows MobileSoftick Card Export for Windows Mobile is a tiny application which allows you to use Windows Mobile device as a convenient USB card reader.That is by using any file manager, including Windows Explorer you can access your files and folders on memory cards inserted...

Tags: Card, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, USB, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Mobile Applications, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-05-16

BenQ W10000

BenQ has been a major player in DLP front projection display technology for years, and the company's latest flagship projector, the W10000, is a one-chip design with Texas Instruments' new 1080p resolution chip. A good-size lamp means the 10000W will drive large screen sizes, which is an important consideration...

Tags: projector, BenQ W10000, BenQ Corp.

Product reviews 2007-04-10