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christoofar

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:

Greetings Christopher

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?

Oracle Open World September 17-22, San Francisco, California, USA — Booth 408
PASS (SQL), September 27-29, Dallas, Texas, USA — Booth 205
Storage Expo, October 12-13, London, England — Stand 760
Storage Networking World, October 24-27, Orlando, Florida, USA — Booth C13

I have a handful of extra passes to the expos if you need one.

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.

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?

Yours Truly,

James Stinson
Marketing Analyst
Texas Memory Systems, Inc.