News Articles - US1/12/10
Making big ones out of small ones: RNA networks (The Register)
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. 12/8/09
RNA Predictions for 2010
...the top three trends fueling memory virtualization's expected growth in 2010.
IT professionals agree that memory is a critical resource constraint in the data center with both economic and operational impact... Forecast: Memory Virtualization Heats Up in 2010 (Computer Technology Review)
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... 12/3/09
Flash storage should be among top data center priorities, Gartner says (Network World)
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. 11/26/09
Birds do it, bees do it (inside HPC)
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. 9/21/09
RNAcache is a Product to Watch (eWeek)
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. 9/16/09
Virtual Memory (Virtualization Review)
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. 8/10/09
Memory: The Real Data Center Bottleneck (The Virtualization Journal)
Memory virtualization solves the key barrier to increasing the efficiency of existing network resources. Links:
The Virtualization Journal
Virtualization Magazine
The Cloud Computing Journal 8/10/09
Nine Data Storage Companies to Watch (Network World)
Why it's worth watching: Latency is the enemy of many applications, particularly those used in the financial services, energy and high-performance computing industries targeted by RNA Networks. RNA's memory virtualization aims to eliminate this latency and provide new levels of flexibility by creating shared pools of memory, which let an application access its entire working data set in memory, instead of from a lower tier of storage. 7/31/09
Bigger Brain Anyone? (Datacenter Management)
Memory virtualization breaks the performance barrier by aggregating memory and dynamically allocating it where needed in the data center. Once memory is virtualized, any connected computer can share data across it, thus reducing latency, improving performance, minimizing complexity and lowering cost. Give Us an A! (Automated Trader)
RNA Networks that has come up with a solution that “floods the enterprise with memory” by the simple expedient of making all the unused memory across the enterprise accessible across the enterprise. 7/6/09
Memory Virtualization Adds a New Layer of Efficiency (Smarter Technology) 6/24/09
RNA Networks Debuts RNAcache For Its Memory Virtualization Platform (virtualization.com)
Broadly applicable to a variety of industries, RNAcache provides line speed processing of the most memory intensive and I/O bound applications including predictive analytics and modeling, high volume Internet applications and clustered environments without requiring changes to applications, OS or storage. 6/23/09
RNA Networks intros new memory virtualization application (insideHPC.com)
The idea here is that you install software on each node of a cluster that has memory you’d like to virtualize for sharing with the rest of the cluster or participate in using memory on other processors. 6/23/09
Startup Boosts App Speed With Virtualized Server Memory (InformationWeek.com)
Applications gain access to data at near the speed of light as opposed to the speed of disk retrievals.
6/23/09
RNA Networks Launches RNAcache (ZDnet)
RNA Networks is launching RNAcache, a product that lives along the border of processing virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization by offering the capability to use server memory on many systems as a shared network resource. 6/22/09
Hedge fund tosses Tibco for memory virtualization startup (SearchDataCenter.com)
A large, worldwide hedge fund company needed to reduce its server memory latency to keep investors from experiencing costly trading delays. It found the answer from the small Oregon-based software startup RNA Networks and is using their technology to replace aging Tibco software. 6/22/09
RNA Networks Expands Memory Virtualization Technology with RNAcache (Enterprise Systems Journal)
Software conquers memory limitations, transparently shares memory to boost application performance 6/22/09
I/O Virtualization Picks Up Steam (Network World)
RNA Networks announced new software called RNAcache that lets Linux or Windows x86-based servers to be clustered together with Gigabit Ethernet or InfiniBand in a network that can share memory from individual processors for bandwidth and I/O intensive applications such as simulations or large data set manipulation. 6/22/09
Product of the Week: RNAcache (Network World)
RNA's memory virtualization technology aggregates memory and shares it across servers, improving performance of memory-intensive applications without purchasing extra memory. RNAcache works with Gigabit Ethernet, 10Gibagit Ethernet and InfiniBand.
6/22/09
RNA Networks Announces RNA Cache; Network Memory (Byte & Switch)
RNA Cache offers a shared resource to computers with the ability to serve multiple computers from the same memory cache simultaneously. For example, financial analytics and simulation programs require large amounts of memory for the data sets. Distributing processing over multiple servers all using the same memory cache vastly speeds up operations.
6/22/09
Firms Push Cloud, Virtualization for IT Niches (Internetnews.com)
"Rather than adding more database nodes, expensive storage or faster processors to support these types of memory intensive applications, RNAcache software drops into the data center without any changes to an existing infrastructure," the company said in a statement. 6/22/09
RNA Debuts Virtual Data Cache (Inside Market Data)
By utilizing virtual memory, RNAcache can significantly reduce the amount of time taken to analyze large datasets. "One client used to need 90 seconds to run its models, and we brought that down to 1.5 seconds," Mallinger says. 6/19/09
RNAcache: Up to 100x Faster Application Performance with Transparent, Drop-in Software (InformationWeek.com)
RNAcache delivers performance at scale, transparently allowing CIOs, application developers, data center architects, and business owners to achieve dramatic performance improvements without adding additional hardware, complicated software frameworks, and the associated maintenance burden to their data centers. 6/10/2009
Cisco hopes its Extend Memory technology will boost UCS (SearchDataCenter.com)
An article comparing RNA networks software based virtualization to Cisco UCS Extended Memory technology. 3/2009
Thanks for the Memory (Automated Trader)
One of the significant barriers to effective data processing is availability of memory. There's a new outfit called RNA networks that has come up with a solution that "floods the enterprise with memory" by the simple expedient of making all the unused memory across the enterprise accessible across the enterprise. 3/11/2009
Creating extreme systems - an RNA Networks Customer Profile (ZDNet)
An RNA customer in high volume algorithmic trading answers questions about RNAmessenger, alternatives evaluated, and performance results. 2/13/2009
Startup RNA networks Virtualizes Memory Across Multiple Servers (InformationWeek)
The idea of managing pooled memory to manage traffic is gaining currency in other quarters. 2/9/2009
RNA networks Pioneers Memory Virtualization, Announces First Customer and $7M in Funding Led by Menlo Ventures (Supercomputing Online)
Company Launches with Veterans from High-Performance Computing, Caching and Enterprise Software Backgrounds 2/4/09
ESX host memory: share the wealth (VMtalk.com)
This week’s launch of RNA Networks and its memory virtualization technology may not mean much for VMware administrators yet, but give it a couple years, and the technology could have broad implications for how you buy and configure your virtual host servers. 2/4/2009
Dell and others put memory I/O in spotlight (Server Watch)
Memory and I/O are far from the stuff that dreams, even IT dreams, are made of. Both fall into the category of things no one gives much thought to when everything is working as it should. 2/4/2009
RNA networks develops memory sharing (CommsExpress)
Oregon-based RNA Networks has developed a memory virtualisation technique which allows for the sharing of memory across an entire data centre.
2/4/2009
Stealth Startup virtualizes server memory, claims first mover advantage (Virtualization Journal)
RNA networks, a three-year-old Oregon start-up, claims to have done what nobody else has done before and make it possible to share server memory. 2/3/2009
Five Virtualization Trends to Watch (ComputerWorld)
The economy might be sputtering and cell phone companies stuttering, but in IT the world is going virtual. 2/2/2009
RNA and Memory Virtualization (ZDNet "Virtually Speaking")
RNA Networks‘ Clive Cook (CEO) and Andy Mallinger (VP Marketing) did their best to help me understand where their concept of “memory virtualization” fits into the Kusnetzky Group model of virtualization technology 2/2/2009
Memory Virtualization Takes a Bow (eWeek)
First came server virtualization, which was quickly followed by storage virtualization. So it was only a matter of time before somebody invented the concept of memory virtualization. 2/2/2009
Startup Takes Aim at Memory Virtualization (IT Business Edge)
RNA networks has just launched the first product of its Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP), the RNAmessenger. The idea is to link all the memory systems in a server architecture to form a single memory pool stretched across any number of network server nodes. The pool operates like any other pooled resource, except that it’s reserved for the CPU memory needs of the data center, rather than bulk server or storage capabilities. 2/2/2009
Memory Virtualization Pioneer RNA networks Launches with $7 Million (VMBlog)
RNA networks, a leader in memory virtualization software that transforms server memory into a shared network resource, today announced the launch of its company and $7M in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures, the tier-one venture capital firm behind 3PAR, F5 Networks, Neterion and IronPort. 2/2/2009
Memory virtualization with a twist (Virtualization Review)
A new virtualization company opens its doors today, and is offering something I haven't seen before in the virtualization world: memory virtualization. 2/2/2009
Startup Launches virtualized shared memory product (Inside HPC)
Earlier this week startup RNA Networks announced that it has launched a software platform that aggregates memory among servers and makes it available to all the servers as a shared memory pool. The company was founded 18 months ago with people from Cray, Akamai, Intel, and QLogic.
2/2/2009
Startup RNA Introduces Memory pooling technology (Securities Industry News)
RNA Networks has emerged from stealth mode with a memory virtualization system designed to minimize data center costs while improving the performance of high-volume, low-latency applications.
2/2/2009
RNA Networks nails $7 million (TechFlash)
Menlo Ventures has led a $7 million first round funding in RNA networks, a Portland startup developing what it dubs "memory virtualization software." The company -- targeting the financial services, life sciences and oil and gas industries -- says its software uses existing computer hardware to help organizations better utilize resources at data centers. 2/2/2009
RNA networks takes the wraps off (The Oregonian)
RNA Networks formally came out of stealth mode this morning, announcing $7 million in venture backing.
1/29/2009
Looking forward: SiOnyx, lovation, RNA and more (The Oregonian)
RNA Networks, a Portland startup that is backed by Menlo Ventures among others, is due to emerge from stealth mode on Monday. RNA specializes in "memory virtualization." It's run by Clive Cook, last seen at the helm of Wi-Fi aspirant VeriLAN. 1/19/2009
Start-up in stealth mode virtualizes memory, shares across servers (Networkworld)
A virtualization start-up in stealth mode says it will offer technology that aggregates memory and shares it across servers, improving performance of online transaction processing and clustered or grid computing. 1/19/2009
Start-up in stealth mode virtualizes memory, shares across servers (SecGuru.com)
A virtualization start-up in stealth mode says it will offer technology that aggregates memory and shares it across servers, improving performance of online transaction processing and clustered or grid computing. 1/19/2009
Start-up in stealth mode virtualizes memory, shares across servers (CIO)
A virtualization start-up in stealth mode says it will offer technology that aggregates memory and shares it across servers, improving performance of online transaction processing and clustered or grid computing. 1/9/2009
Startup to virtualize memory and share it across servers (Infoworld)
RNA Networks' offering will aggregate memory and shares it across servers, improving the performance of online transaction processing and clustered or grid computing. 1/9/2009
Startup to Virtualize Memory and Share it Across Servers (CIO)
RNA Networks' offering will aggregate memory and shares it across servers, improving the performance of online transaction processing and clustered or grid computing 1/3/2009
RNA networks Attracts $7M in Investments (The Oregonian)
$7 million in investments RNA Networks, a downtown Portland startup, reported Monday that it has raised $7 million in venture capital. 1/3/2009
RNA networks nets $7M (The Seattle PI)
Portland, OR-based RNA Networks, a memory virtualization software startup, announced it has raised $7 million in Series A funding, led by Menlo Ventures. 12/14/2008
Memory Virtualization, the Third Wave of Virtualization (VMblog.com)
Memory Virtualization, like server and storage virtualization, offers the benefits of consolidation and compelling cost savings. Yet over and above early server and storage implementations, in 2009 Memory Virtualization will introduce a new way of thinking about virtualization that challenges the way IT manages applications, clustering, the data center, services and business itself. News Articles - International 2/4/2009
RNA networks and Memory Virtualization (ZDNet UK)
RNA Networks, a start-up company based in Oregon, has launched what it claims to be the first high-performance networked virtual memory system. 2/2/2009
Ex-IntelCrayAkamai startup rejiggers virtualization (The Register/IT Jungle)
RNA Networks - a startup based in server development hotbed Portland, Oregon - has launched a stack of systems software that provides memory virtualization and pooling for servers that are connected by a network. 1/29/2009
Третья волна виртуализации (OSP.RU)
Вслед за процессорными ресурсами и ресурсами хранения RNA Networks предлагает виртуализовать оперативную память, разделив ее между серверами 1/13/2009
Virtualizzazione, prepariamoci alla terza fase: la memoria (Computerworld Italy)
Una startup americana ha sviluppato una tecnologia in grado di aggregare la memoria di più sistemi per poi spartirla tra gli stessi in base alle esigenze applicative, così da incrementare le prestazioni di ambienti OLTP, cluster e grid. Blog Posts12/4/09
Tapping the Potential of Memory Virtualization in 2010 (VMblog)
Just as a desktop computer slows down when its memory gets full, limited memory prohibits the data center from operating at peak capacity. This is a great use case for virtualization, and we expect the focus on "Memory Virtualization" to continue well into next year. 7/1/09
Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware LiveBlogging and News Analysis (SOA Center)
"We see RNA Networks putting JMS onto a RAM caching box and kicking TIBCO out of a hedge fund company." 1/15/2009
メモリを仮想化する - RNA Networks (Matsuyuku.com)
メモリを仮想化してサーバー間で共有する、と書いてあって、えーと仮想メモリのことじゃなくて...と少し考えてしまった。
(そういえば昔はVirtual MemoryのことをVMって言ってたなあ）
9/10/2008
14 Portland Companies with Promise in the New Economy (Hazelnut Tech Talk)
14 were companies were selected to present at Oregon Entrepreneurs Network’s Venture Northwest conference on October 30. Analyst Articles8/25/09
RNA Networks identifies memory as the datacenter's critical bottleneck (The 451 Group)
Memory virtualization is not an easy concept to grasp on first pass. It helps to think of specific use cases. Imagine, for example, that an organization has adopted Hadoop to conduct occasional data-intensive distributed queries. Once the query has been run, memory virtualization can release the memory resources used for that job, just as a hypervisor can reclaim the compute resources and repurpose them for other work. It is in this light that RNA's technology starts to look like an interesting – perhaps a necessary – component of cloud infrastructure. 2/3/2009
Virtualization’s next frontier is memory pooling, startup RNA networks says (The 451 Group - Registration Required)
We're now all more than familiar with server and desktop virtualization. But the virtualization of other system resources, such as networking, I/O and memory, is still at its very earliest stages of development – and one of a dwindling set of market sectors where there's still some room for startups to have an impact. RNA Networks, which has come out of stealth mode this month, believes that current limitations with memory technology have the biggest impact on the performance and scalability of a virtualized system – greater than the more commonly addressed factors of compute power and storage. Where to spend in a time of crisis (Securities Industry News: Registration Required)
Industry observers note that the buy side is still making select investments in technologies that can save time and money.
Startup RNA networks releases virtualization's next frontier: memory pooling (Tier 1 Research - Registration Required)
RNA Networks is a startup based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in memory virtualization. Today it launches its first commercial product, RNAmessenger – already in full production, based on the company's Memory Virtualization Platform.
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