RNANetworks

RNA Memory Virtualization Transforms Memory into a Shared, Networked Resource

Portland, Ore. – February 2, 2009 – RNA networks, a leader in memory virtualization software that transforms server memory into a shared network resource, today announced the launch of its Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP) and first product, RNAmessenger, based on the MVP.  Memory Virtualization unleashes high-performance computing from existing commodity hardware by decoupling memory from the processor and server.  Uniquely, the RNA Memory Virtualization Platform is transparent to existing applications and operating systems allowing enterprises to leverage their existing IT assets with no changes.

“Reliance on fragmented local server memory has been a key roadblock to optimizing performance in data center clusters, but memory virtualization eliminates size limits and slashes access times by providing distributed shared memory for all CPUs in a cluster,” said Eyal Waldman, Chairman, President and CEO, Mellanox Technologies. “By combining RNA Networks' Memory Virtualization with Mellanox Technologies' unrivaled connectivity performance, data center architects can achieve new levels of performance with high efficiency and lower costs.”

RNA networks’ software improves utilization of existing data center resources, and provides a high-performance alternative to data center investments aimed at addressing the limitations of memory availability.  Businesses that utilize memory virtualization are experiencing increased top line results because of the large performance boost directly attributable to memory virtualization.  All of this is accomplished with no changes to the IT infrastructure.

“For years, distributed processing, whether across WANs, LANS, backplanes and now multiple cores has suffered from I/O and memory constraints,” said Glen Van Datta, Vice President of Engineering, Trion World. “To create a rich user experience will inevitably require a large distributed pool of shared memory across the IT environment.  RNA’s Memory Virtualization is exciting technology in this arena.”

RNA Memory Virtualization Platform and RNAmessenger

RNA’s innovative Memory Virtualization Platform works by pooling or aggregating available memory across nodes, and making the memory pool available as a shared network resource available to all servers in the data center.  Servers can access the pool, contribute to it or both.

“Our IT clients are continually looking for cost-effective ways to expand data processing throughput while controlling costs and maintaining service levels,” said Julie Craig, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Management Associates.  “RNA provides a compelling solution that goes beyond simply adding more memory to servers. By leveraging unused horsepower from existing servers via memory pooling, RNA’s Memory Virtualization Platform delivers higher application performance with no additional investments in data center resources.”

RNAmessenger, the first product based on RNA’s platform, is targeted at accelerating high-volume, low latency applications or any business critical environment that demands superior transaction processing speeds.  Algorithmic trading, content delivery and on-line gaming are areas that gain immediate benefit from RNAmessenger.  For example, by keeping all trade execution messaging in memory, hops are eliminated and unmatched latency (microseconds) can be achieved.   RNAmessenger consistently shows more than 500 percent improvement in trade execution latency.

“Memory Virtualization has broad applicability to a number of challenges that have plagued the data center for years,” said Clive Cook, CEO of RNA networks.  “In early customer evaluations, we’ve repeatedly seen how frustrated enterprises are with  the limitations of the current memory ‘island’ model.  Using the RNA Memory Virtualization Platform, these same customers have experienced dramatically improved performance at significantly lower cost with service levels which are destined to transform their business.”

About RNA networks
RNA networks is the leader in memory virtualization software. The company's Memory Virtualization Platform eliminates application bottlenecks associated with memory, and transforms memory into a shared, networked resource available to servers in the data center. RNA’s products scale across commodity hardware, take advantage of existing data center equipment, and are transparently deployed to deliver unmatched performance. RNA networks is located in Portland Oregon and Silicon Valley and is funded by Menlo Ventures.  For more information, visit http://www.rnanetworks.com.

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