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What businesses benefit from RNA networks solutions?RNA improves performance for the business critical applications running today’s large enterprises, including performance-centric applications with low latency requirements, throughput-centric applications with large data set requirements, and any web application. So, if you are in capital markets, Web 2.0 or have an OLTP-driven business where delivering sub-millisecond latencies off a transaction or processing of a message can impact your bottom line and competitive advantage, RNA networks can help - without making changes to applications, OS or storage systems. How is RNA's solution different than other application acceleration solutions?Competitive approaches to application acceleration, including storage solutions are cost- and resource-prohibitive in terms of budget, time, people, space and energy. Traditional storage solutions, including network-based storage, such as NAS and SAN, were never intended to serve as the foundation for business-critical application performance, which they are mistakenly tasked with today. Storage is located too far from the application CPU; it is constrained by physical limitations, prone to disruptive bottlenecks, and cannot be shared. This storage-server performance gap (latencies of accessing data from predominantly mechanical, hard disk drive media) inhibits the level of performance needed for high-transaction enterprise applications and high-volume operational IT applications. RNA’s Memory Virtualization Platform delivers unparalleled data center utilization that allows the other component technologies – servers, networks and storage – to play the role they were meant to play. Storage will store, high-speed fabrics will increase bandwidth, multi-core processors will provide more compute cycles and RNAcache will provide unlimited cache resources. For more information, see Comparative Advantages.Top What is RNA’s competitive advantage?RNA's Memory Virtualization Platform delivers application performance without proprietary hardware, and without making changes to applications, operating systems or storage subsystems. We leverage existing resources rather than requiring more servers, memory, or specialized storage such as Solid State Drives or in-memory databases.Top How does RNA scale?RNA scales linearly as nodes are added to the memory pool. How are RNA products deployed in the data center?RNA deployment requires no changes to your applications, operating system, or storage sub-systems. Software components are distributed using existing software deployment tools and/or processes. Additionally a 1U appliance is installed to provide initial cache capacity and provide cache management capabilities. Initial deployments, typically fewer than 32 nodes, can be completed and demonstrating value within a day. For more information see RNA Deployment. Does RNA provide failover capability and redundancy?Yes. RNA products provide high-availability features. In the unlikely event of a failure, cache operation is not interrupted, nor is any data lost because the redundant appliance kicks in until the primary can be restored. The product is generally deployed with redundant appliances and software components as required to meet availability requirements.Top What data center environments will RNA support?RNA products easily integrate and deploy into any business-aligned IT environment. It provides multi-transport, multi-processor support. Currently, Linux OS variants are supported. RNA products are uniquely qualified to deliver unmatched performance in existing or new, high performance computing environments such as grid computing, cloud computing and server virtualization.Top How is RNA’s solution delivered?RNA software comes pre-loaded on 1U COTS (commercial off the shelf) appliance, which is configured for your environment. The appliance is optional, and simplifies implementation. It comes with a 32GB memory block that establishes the initial instance of the memory pool. How much networked memory capacity can RNA products support?There is no logical limit to the size of the pool but we currently support up to 10TB. Does RNA work with InfiniBand, GbE, 10GbE?Yes. RNA is fabric agnostic and delivers performance benefits on all fabrics. It is optimized for high speed fabrics such as InfiniBand. Performance is influenced by environment, application, etc. What kind of interface is available to manage the RNAcache?Both command line interface and GUI-based (web) management console are available to manage the memory pool. The CLI provides the ability to integrate pool management with existing enterprise management solutions and the web-based UI provides an operational dashboard and configuration wizard to help organizations get up and running quickly.Top Does RNA work with WAN?Yes. RNA works in conjunction with LAN and WAN, but the benefits will be seen on a LAN within a single data center or cluster.Top
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Memory Virtualization
RNA enables memory virtualization in the data center. Capital Markets
RNA solutions provide the fastest securities trading and analysis available for trading firms. 
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