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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. –- Imperial Technology, the company accelerating application performance, announced its MegaRam-10000, its newest solid state accelerator featuring up to one terabyte of zero latency solid state storage capacity. “Imperial’s MegaRam-10000 sets the bar for super capacity SSD requirements,” said Tony Prigmore, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Storage Group. “There’s no question that there’s a small but well defined market for a powerhouse solution that can deliver up to a million I/O’s per second. ESG believes that Imperial is well positioned to take advantage of the increasing need for significant I/O performance in the coming years.” "Several years ago, the thought of deploying a Terabyte of solid state storage was incomprehensible but so was having a Petabyte of rotating storage – yet today, enterprises have both” said Robert David, CEO and President, Imperial Technology. “It’s really just a matter of increased scale. The relative proportions haven’t changed nor have the compelling business reasons for deploying zero latency storage solutions like the MegaRam-10000.” “The performance and dynamic capabilities of real-time applications require new scale factors,” said Michael Peterson, President, Strategic Research Corporation. “Imperial has delivered a new industry benchmark with this announcement.” The MegaRam-10000 sets a new standard for a multi-location and enterprise-wide storage resource. Geared for the most transaction-intensive and mission critical environments, the MegaRam-10000’s massively scalable architecture is targeted to grid computing, life science and biomedical research, large-scale engineering, and time-sensitive geophysical applications as well as traditional OLTP environments and High Performance Computing (HPC) applications where capturing metadata real-time is critical. The MegaRam-10000 responds to a growing awareness by transaction-oriented enterprises that relying upon traditional cached arrays to meet transaction levels is increasingly costly when utilization and management costs are taken into account. Today’s large-capacity-per-spindle drives deliver phenomenal $/MB but performance per spindle measured in terms of data access throughput has dropped correspondingly. Enterprises have attempted to compensate by buying more spindles per subsystem which has resulted in lower capacity utilization and increased management costs. “Adding more drives to a cached array is like adding more gas to the tank of your car so that the car will go faster. What you really need is not more gas, but a car specifically designed to go faster,” adds David. “Significant decreases in memory chips have allowed Imperial to lower the selling price of solid state storage by up to 90% compared to three years ago – a phenomenal decrease,” said Marlin Kovaleski, Vice President Sales, Imperial Technology. “That price decrease and the resultant upswing in large capacity system demand has clearly demonstrated to us that users do need high capacity solutions as evidenced by 100GB+ orders at eBay, AT&T, Logitech, Raytheon and others. It’s now practical to put an entire database in solid state memory.” The MegaRam-10000 is available immediately starting at $350,000. A fully configured 1TB subsystem with 48 fibre channel ports lists at $2 million.