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Dataram Corporation has announced an initiative that affords companies the opportunity to evaluate the XcelaSAN Fibre Channel SAN appliance and experience dramatic I/O performance improvement. Customers will experience outstanding performance improvements in VMware, ORACLE, SQL, DB2 and other high I/O intensive applications while using their own data, in their own sites. Installation can be completed in one hour while systems are running and significant performance improvement will be immediate.

Dataram is offering companies the opportunity to install and test an XcelaSAN solution at their sites under its 'Let Us Prove it to You' promotion. They are so confident in the results and ease of installation that a 32GB iPad will be given to organizations that complete the evaluation.

XcelaSAN is a storage optimization appliance that offers the quickest and least expensive way to successfully supercharge high I/O applications on midrange SANs. It dynamically and transparently improves I/O performance up to 30x with block-level caching, resulting in exponential savings.

"Companies often invest time and money to plan, simulate, monitor and report the anticipated results of performance enhancements, and then repeat the process to install and test the solution in their environment," said Phyllis Reiman, Manager, Storage Product Marketing at Dataram. "XcelaSAN is a better alternative that installs quickly, without taking systems offline. Customers run their own data and validate the actual improvement. No guessing - just proof and immediate results."

XcelaSAN is a proven, cost-effective and highly available solution with industry-best pricing per I/O. The new 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. No new host software is required, and XcelaSAN is managed through a Web-based browser for user-friendly operation.

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.

"To prove our point," continued Reiman, "we will gladly provide an onsite evaluation of our XcelaSAN storage optimization appliance to show how IT managers can dynamically improve their performance while eliminating the need for additional expensive storage arrays. We're convinced that they will see the value of high performance and high availability that the XcelaSAN provides."

Companies interested in evaluating an XcelaSAN onsite and receiving the 32GB iPad should contact Dataram at 1-800-DATARAM (choose option 5 and mention code prove it to me) or send an email to xcelasanprovesit@dataram.com to set up an installation.