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Ok, I just got a marketing email from Texas Memory Systems, the great
folks that brought you the memory-based disk array, which is pretty
cool.
Their product is all DIMMs. It simulates a disk drive, no moving
parts, can get them large enough as 1TB... making for a very fast
database (in case your database is so full of WTFs that it's cheaper to
buy this than hire 1/2 of India to fix it)...
In case you don't know who Don Burleson is...
Redneck Philosophy
The email:
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Greetings
Christopher</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Can I ask if you'd like to
get together and discuss database/application acceleration with solid state
disks at any of the following shows? </font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Oracle Open World September
17-22, San Francisco, California, USA — Booth 408</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">PASS (SQL), September
27-29, Dallas, Texas, USA — Booth 205</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Storage Expo, October
12-13, London, England — Stand 760</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Storage Networking World,
October 24-27, Orlando, Florida, USA — Booth C13</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I have a handful of extra
passes to the expos if you need one. </font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">We'll have copies of Mike
Ault and Don Burleson's book, Oracle Solid State Disk Tuning, at Oracle Open
World. If the books last, we'll have some available at PASS as well. At Storage
Networking World, we are holding a special tutorial session on Storage
Performance Testing. At all the shows, we'll be showing our new RamSan-400 solid state
disk — the industry’s first solid state disk with 4-gigabit Fibre Channel
interfaces. It’s currently the only storage device that can sustain 3
gigabytes/second of random data transfers. The RamSan-400 is covered under our
industry unique Application Performance Guarantee, so you can purchase with
confidence.</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Of course, I'd be happy to
have an application performance expert contact you outside of these shows, but
if you will be in any of these cities, it would be great to arrange a
face-to-face meeting. Will we see you at any of the shows?</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Yours Truly,</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">James StinsonMarketing
AnalystTexas Memory Systems, Inc.</font>