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Dell has acquired Oregon-based RNA Networks.
Dell told Austin Business Journal that the deal closed last Thursday for an undisclosed amount.
RNA Networks, which launched in 2006, develops server virtualization, which enables a lone server to appear to operate as multiple servers, each with its own operating system.
RNA networks today announced it has extended its Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP) product family with the release of RNAcache. MVP transforms server memory into a shared network resource. RNAcache allows servers to leverage RNA’s unlimited pool of memory by loading entire working datasets into a single shared, virtual memory pool for simultaneous access and processing. RNAcache significantly lowers the cost of supporting business critical, memory-intensive applications without making further investments in costly data center equipment, enabling companies to wring as much revenue potential out of existing servers as possible.
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.
An investment management firm using RNAcache said, “With RNAcache, our analytic models that previously took 1.5 hours ran in a matter of minutes – showing a 2,000 percentage performance improvement.” In this case, RNA’s unlimited memory pool held a working dataset of 3 Terabytes across hundreds of compute nodes.
RNAcache works in all network environments including GbE, 10GbE, and InfiniBand. RNAcache removes data center bottlenecks caused by contention for application memory, the most scarce and limited resource in the data center. During customer testing, RNAcache significantly enhanced performance in the following use cases:
The rate of proliferation and amount of data that must be quickly analyzed, shared and interpreted is growing exponentially. RNAcache makes the benefits of memory virtualization widely available to customers in industries who rely on access, performance and scale to remain competitive – be it video streaming or algorithmic model processing.
RNA networks today announced the launch of its company and $7M in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures.
Memory virtualization transparently enables high-performance computing in the enterprise from commodity hardware. RNA networks’ software improves utilization of existing data center resources, and provides an alternative to data center investments aimed at addressing the limitations of memory availability. By leveraging existing hardware, RNA brings tremendous business benefits to the enterprise including cost savings through consolidation and increased utilization. Equally compelling are the increased top line results of the businesses that utilize memory virtualization. All of this is accomplished with no changes to the IT infrastructure.
RNA networks also announced a U.S.-based, global multi-billion dollar hedge fund as a first customer of its RNAmessenger product. RNAmessenger is targeted at high-volume, low latency messaging or any business critical environment that demands superior transaction processing. Algorithmic trading, content delivery and on-line gaming are arenas that gain immediate benefit.
NetworkWorld brings us the news of stealth startup RNA Networks, which says it will “offer technology that aggregates memory and shares it across servers, improving performance of online transaction processing and clustered or grid computing.”
From their websites:
RNA networks brings memory virtualization into the enterprise data center.
RNA delivers the consolidation and dramatic cost savings of virtualization for business critical applications. In addition, RNA’s Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP) delivers breakthrough performance at scale, reliably and efficiently.
Memory Virtualization profoundly changes everything about business aligned IT, from economics to use cases. RNA transforms the data center into a high performance asset where virtualization is fully adopted. With RNA, your business performance is accelerated.
RNA is reportedly slated for launch in the beginning of February 2008.