InternetTop SSD Performance Comes at a Price

Texas Memory Systems debuts a RAM-based product that's big and powerful, but definitely not cheap.

Texas Memory Systems (TMS) is debuting a RAM–solid state disk drive (SSD) today for enterprises able to say "price be damned" in exchange for intense performance, fast speed and high storage capacity. Starting at $140,000 the RamSan-440 quadruples current available RAM-SSD capacity and can handle up to 600,000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS), according to the vendor. The four-unit rack-mount chassis scales to 512 gigabytes of storage capacity. The news comes as enterprises want greater power and capacity to handle increasing datacentric applications such as mission-critical databases. "This kind of RAM-based SSD is at the top of the performance pyramid," Jeff Janukowicz, an IDC analyst who covers solid state drives & HDD components, told InternetNews.com. RELATED ARTICLES Solid-State Drive Tech Breaks a Few Records The Wait Is Over in SSD Power-On Scenario SSD Arrival Stokes Excitement For more stories on this topic: "It's really about performance," he said. "There are always applications that require higher-level performance and datacenters that are looking to increase the number of transactions," he said. The announcement is also another validation point for SSD technology, which is gaining prominence given advancements in flash-based SSD technologies. Last July, an IDC report predicted SSDs were ready to hit the mainstream and that the technology's performance and mobility-related requirements... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

InternetLive blog: Yahoo discusses second quarter (CNET)

CNET - Yahoo's financial results came in lower than analyst expectations for revenue and net income, but the stock is trading higher after hours. Here are highlights from what Chief Executive Jerry Yang, President Sue Decker, and Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen have to say about the second quarter during the company's conference call.

InternetTechnical Analysis: Bulls Get Tested

The major indexes appear headed for their first big test since the rally began last week.