www.ramsan.com Texas Memory Systems, Inc

15th generation of The World’s Fastest Storage™ Over 32 yrs of solid state storage experience Privately held; no VC & no long term debt Global in presence RamSan’s Did You Know?

Used in the largest SSD installations in the world

Operate in 9 major financial exchanges worldwide

Used by 7 out of 10 of the world’s largest telecoms

Installed in over 35 countries Top 10 Concerns of Today’s CIO

Business productivity and cost reduction IT and business alignment Business agility and speed to market Business process re-engineering IT cost reduction IT reliability and efficiency IT strategic planning Revenue generating IT innovations Security and privacy CIO leadership role – Trend: ~50% now report directly to the CEO

RamSan is here to assist and alleviate over 80% of these day to day concerns…

…have you thought to how much better your business could run with the award winning RamSan? TMS Product Portfolio

SYSTEMS

RAM-Based Network Attached RamSan-300,400,440

FLASH-Based RamSan-500,620 Network Attached

Introducing: RamSan-630

PCI FLASH-Based Direct Attached RamSan-10/20 RamSan-620

1-5TB capacity 250,000 IOPS 3GB/s throughput Latency 80-250 µs

Formerly highest density SLC Flash SSD system Audited SPC-1 test demonstrate lowest average latency and lowest cost per SPC-1 IOPS of any Flash SSD tested. Easily shared and multipathed through eight 4Gbit ports or 4x InfiniBand. Enterprise Reliability Single Layer Cell (SLC) Flash Fault Tolerant Flash (FTF) Architecture Active Spare Feature RamSan-620 SPC.1 Results

SPC.1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TEXAS MEMORY SYSTEMS, INC. TEXAS MEMORY SYSTEMS RAMSAN-620/5TB SPC-1 V1.11 Submitted for Review: October 27, 2009 Identifier: A00085

Throughput Data - Response Time I/O Request Throughput 50% Load 80% Load 100% Load 127,521.34 203,995.39 254,994.21

Average Response Time (ms): All ASUs 0.29 0.41 0.72 Reads 0.34 0.41 0.62 Writes 0.26 0.41 0.79

AVERAGE POWER CONSUMPTION – 230 Watts RamSan-620 Architecture

Management Control Processor 4 Dual-ported Fibre Channel 1-5TB of SLC Flash Boards Redundant Power Supplies

Redundant 2U Chassis Fans RamSan-620 Fault Tolerant Flash

Embedded PowerPC Super capacitors

RAID-5 Protected Flash 750 MB RAM 250 GB usable, 343 GB RAW Two Flash Controllers RamSan-630

2-10TB capacity 500,000 IOPS 8 GB/s throughput Latency 80-250 µs Highest density SLC Flash SSD system available. Leverages proven flash core from the RamSan-20 and RamSan-620 Easily shared and multipathed through ten 4Gbit Fibre Channel ports or QDR InfiniBand ports (Q3) Enterprise Reliability Single Layer Cell (SLC) Flash Fault Tolerant Flash (FTF) Architecture Active Spare Feature RamSan-630 Architecture

5 Dual-ported Fibre Channel 2-10TB of SLC Management Flash Boards Control Processor

Redundant Power Supplies

3U Chassis Redundant Fans RamSan-630 Fault Tolerant Flash

Embedded PowerPC Super capacitors

RAID-5 Protected Flash On Board RAM 500 GB usable, 686 GB RAW ECC Protected Four Flash Controllers RamSan-10/20

225/450GB capacity 120,000 read IOPS 50,000 write IOPS 700MB/s throughput Latency 50µs On-board Flash Management Preserves Server CPU and RAM Best performance among PCI Express Cards Bursts I/O longer than competitor cards Sustains higher I/O than competitor cards Best-in-class write latency and write I/O Enterprise Reliability Single Layer Cell (SLC) Flash Fault Tolerant Flash (FTF) Architecture RamSan-20 Architecture

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RamSan-20 Specifications Capacity 450-GB (1) PCIe 1.1 Spec x4 NAND Type SLC Block Size 4KB (2) Power PC CPU 333mHz IOPS Random Read 120,000 Burst 128,000 (3) Xilinx FPGA Random Write 50,000 Burst 115,000 (4) 450GB SLC Flash Random R/W Read at 70% 100,000 (640GB total) Bandwidth Read 700 MB/s Write 500 MB/s (5) 750MB DRAM Latency 80µs (6) Super Capacitors CPU Power PC 333-MHz Life Expectancy 25% writes 12 years (7) Full Height Form factor PCIe x4 Full height Power draw 15 watts Texas Memory Systems Customers and Partners TMS Reference List

See the Case Study section of our Web site for details of the RamSan customers you can reference. The Container Store

• 1st Installation: Reduced Batch Run from 15 Hours to 3 Hours (5x Improvement) • 2nd Installation: Deployed additional units to handle web traffic after CEO Guest Spot on The Oprah Winfrey Show caused flood of concurrent users "We knew our IT infrastructure was about to be slammed and that we would need a quick and effective way to handle an unprecedented level of concurrent visitors to our site. We needed equipment from Texas Memory Systems in a hurry and they were there for us. Since the show aired on November 13th, our new infrastructure is helping us take maximum advantage of the exposure." RamSan-620 RamSan-620 Tom Birmingham, EMC CX500 CTO of The Container Store RamSan-440 Trade Me

• Online auction site • 70,000 concurrent users • 1.1 Million simultaneous auctions • Using just a pair of small (32 GB) RamSans reduced application response time and increased throughput by 20% Major US Exchange

Over 100 RamSan systems in production supporting 3 core revenue-generating systems. Moving key Oracle tablespaces from the existing storage array Doubled application performance, even though the tablespaces in the storage array were served from cache. SPC-1 Results 2009 SPC Audited Testing

Texas Memory Systems RamSan-620 has the Lowest Cost per SPC-1 IOPS™ for any Flash SSD and a record low Average Response time according to the Storage Performance Council (SPC) SPC-1 Test record.*

SPC-1 IOPS ™ - 254,994.21 Low Cost per SPC-1 IOPS ™ - $1.13 World Record Low Average Response Time - .19 ms

“The test results demonstrate that customers can achieve higher performance and lower cost for performance with RamSan SSDs.”

* Based on TMS testing audited (A00085) and published by the Storage Performance Council (storageperformance.org) 2009 SPC Audited Testing

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EMC Clarion CX3 Model 25 40 RamSan Latency Advantage!

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