Dataram Corporation (NASDAQ: DRAM), a worldwide leader in the manufacture of high-quality computer memory, storage products and software, today announced that its new XcelaSAN storage optimization appliance drew hundreds of interested visitors to Dataram’s booth at SNW Fall 2009, the world’s largest conference devoted to storage and related technologies. XcelaSAN is the industry's first solution to seamlessly deliver up to 30x performance improvement to existing applications such as Oracle, SQL, Exchange and VMware.

XcelaSAN augments existing storage systems by transparently applying intelligent caching algorithms that serve the most active block-level data from high-speed solid state storage, creating an intelligent, virtual solid state SAN. This breakthrough solution allows organizations to dramatically increase the performance of their existing business-critical applications without the costly hardware upgrades or over-provisioning of storage typically found in current solutions for increased performance.

In addition to Dataram’s product demonstration, Jason Caulkins, Dataram’s Chief Technologist was a featured speaker at SNW’s Solid State Summit. The “standing room only” attendees heard vendor presentations and then participated in round tables to discuss their individual challenges and specific needs with the presenters.

“We were very pleased with the intense interest in solid state and XcelaSAN at both the summit and our booth,” said Caulkins. “Visitors to our booth were able to view a live demonstration of XcelaSAN delivering groundbreaking performance improvement to an existing SAN.”

More About XcelaSAN

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 active-active 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 storage optimization technology.

XcelaSAN is available now in limited quantities and is expected to be generally available by the end of the year in the United States and in 1H 2010 throughout Europe and Asia. Pricing starts at $65,000 and the product will be available through select resellers. Additional information is available at www.dataram.com.

About SNW

Computerworld's SNW Conference is the world’s largest venue devoted to storage and related technologies targeted to an audience of IT end-users, vendors, channel partners, press and analysts involved in storage, data center, infrastructure and business continuity. Offering more than 150 educational sessions, SNW provides attendees with an opportunity to gain reliable, firsthand knowledge from IT experts and visionaries in the industry. More information about the event is available online at http://www.snwusa.com.

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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