Texas Memory Systems designs and builds solid state storage systems for accelerating enterprise applications. It uses the industry’s leading storage technology, PCI-e Solid State Disks (SSDs), to provide solutions to the IT industry that allow for scalable, low-latency messaging with high throughput. These requirements are found today in financial services, social networking and other High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.

Instead of a rotating mechanical disk, SSDs use memory chips (typically DDR RAM or Flash Memory) to read and write data. These drives eliminate the mechanical limitations and latency of hard disk drives and allow storage speeds to catch up with the speed of today’s processors, thereby improving performance and productivity. With SSDs, applications can accommodate more concurrent users and simultaneous transactions and can be more economical than adding monolithic RAID, servers, RAM, or constant application tuning.

Texas Memory Systems will work with The Linux Foundation and the Linux kernel community to help ensure that its SSDs are supported in the mainline kernel, which benefits Texas Memory Systems’ customers using Linux who will have support for their drives “out-of-the-box.” The company’s efforts to upstream the Linux driver for supporting PCI-e SSD drives are part of an industry effort it is leading to ensure all storage manufacturers have support for new storage devices in the mainline Linux kernel.