Dataram Corporation has announced the opening of a development, test and QA facility in Issaquah, WA. It will house the expanding storage solutions development team and a test lab to support the XcelaSAN Fibre Channel SAN optimization appliance. Dataram chose the Seattle area based upon the rich technology talent pool and the welcoming business climate. In May 2010, Forbes ranked Seattle in the top 5 most innovative cities in technology.

"Dataram's expansion and opening of a Seattle location dedicated to the development of XcelaSAN is a reflection of our confidence in the product and the positive feedback we have received from our customers," said Tom Mayberry, Director of Product Development at Dataram. "The team at this location will enhance our XcelaSAN appliance as well as develop additional leading edge storage technology solutions for customers seeking high performance and high availability for mission critical applications."

XcelaSAN is a proven, cost-effective and highly available solution that dynamically and transparently improves I/O performance up to 30x with block-level caching. The storage optimization appliance leverages Dataram's 43-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 mirrored SAN configurations, with no single point of failure.

"Customers who depend upon high I/O intensive business applications such as ORACLE, SQL, or VMware experience significantly improved performance when they implement XcelaSAN," continued Mayberry. "This translates directly into higher user productivity, more effective use of storage resources and a substantially reduced cost of computing."

XcelaSAN provides investment protection by extending the life of the existing infrastructure and lowers 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.