Since early 2009, RNA Networks has been selling memory virtualization and pooling software to help companies get around memory bottlenecks in their standalone systems. Now it's taking another whack at the market with a rejiggered product lineup, more sensible packaging, and simpler pricing.
RNA in the News
A-Team Insight
April 25, 2010
RNA Networks is leveraging memory virtualisation technology to tackle memory bottlenecks that degrade data intensive trading applications. The company’s middleware platform is aimed at improving application performance, eliminating the capacity and cost constraints of server memory, and making memory a scalable networked resource. “Memory virtualisation supports ultra low latency messaging because you no longer have to pass messages through network sockets or messaging server layers. For trading floors this means micro-second delivery of execution orders which is mandatory for automated trading. Also, the algo analytics themselves get a huge boost in speed because memory virtualisation pulls DRAM memory together to create a multi-terabyte memory cloud. This enables in-memory performance for analytics, enabling near real-time access to data for algo programs and empowering traders to build more sophisticated, data-rich models.”
Network World
March 22, 2010
Like everything else in the data center, it was only a matter of time before system memory went through the virtualization hopper. And that's a good thing if you're looking to speed up transaction-heavy applications in your data center. RNAcache, one of two products RNA offers atop its Memory Virtualization Platform, lets applications load their entire working dataset – say that used for predictive analytics or travel reservations, for example – into a memory cache for faster access and processing.
The Register
January 12, 2010
RNA does something it calls memory virtualization, although memory aggregation is probably a more apt description. Its software allows users to dedicate memory on compute nodes to a common pool that can be used by any systems on the network. Our pal TPM did a great job of writing up the whats, whys, and hows of RNA here, so we’re not going to duplicate his explanation. The major change from Tim’s story is that RNA has released its RNAcache product and is pushing forward in its sales efforts.
Network World
December 15, 2009
Memory Virtualization Will Be as Widely Accepted in the Data Center as Server, Desktop and Storage Virtualization
RNA Networks, the leader in memory virtualization software that transforms server memory into a shared network resource, today announced the top three trends fueling memory virtualization's expected growth in 2010.
Computer Technology Review
December 8, 2009
Attention to the age-old problem of memory limitations will only heat up as data volumes continue to expand. Memory virtualization will be one of the top technologies to watch in the coming year. Three specific trends are fueling this growth...
Network World
December 3, 2009
Vendors such as 3Leaf Systems and RNA Networks are working on building data center platforms that offer some of the flexibility of Gartner's predicted fabric-based servers.
insideHPC
November 26, 2009
First, there were several companies presenting technical solutions that allow datacenter managers to break up the traditional concept of a compute node, freeing them to compose systems from pieces and parts at a finer level of granularity. Companies such as RNA networks, 3Leaf Systems, Avere Systems, and NextIO all occupy different segments of this trend.
eWeek
September 21, 2009
RNAcache is a Product to Watch
RNAcache allows servers to leverage RNA's pool of memory by loading entire working data sets into a singe, shared virtual memory for simultaneous access and processing.
Virtualization Review
September 16, 2009
RNA proposes a new way to deal with memory -- virtualize it. In other words, it has come up with a way to make memory a shared, network resource.
