Decimalization Problems Solved With Use of Imperial's MegaRam Solid State Disk.Business Editors EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2000 The heavy volume of message traffic that currently exists at peak market times, coupled with the flood of traffic that is expected to result from the decimalization Decimalization The process of changing the prices that securities trade at from fractions to decimals. Notes: The reasoning behind this was to make prices more easily understood by investors, and to bring the United States into conformity with international practices. conversion, is bound to overwhelm even the most powerful servers. Is your storage system equipped to provide instantaneous data access during periods of heavy demand? For over 20 years, Imperial Technology has been readying companies for growth and industry evolutions such as decimalization. Imperial's MegaRam Solid State Disks and MegaCache Inline Cache A memory cache that resides next to the CPU, but shares the same system bus as other subsystems in the computer. It is faster than lookaside cache, but slower than a backside cache. See backside cache and lookaside cache. systems provide the performance boost necessary for a company's continuous success and growth in changing times. The Securities Industry Association estimates "dramatic increases in quoting and message volume, particularly for stocks traded in pennies." It is estimated that, by December 2001, decimal trading Decimal trading The quotation and trading of stock or bond prices in decimals, as opposed to the quotation of prices in fractions. will have caused peak message traffic for securities on NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on to increase by 700 percent and peak message traffic for equity and index options to increase by 3,033 percent. The smaller trading price Trading price The price at which a security is currently selling. increments resulting from decimalization is expected to attract more investors to the markets. MegaRam and MegaCache are high-performance data accelerators that work with your existing storage to meet heavy demand with speeds more than 300 times faster than rotating disk drives. As a result these blazingly fast storage systems allow page loads, authentication procedures, searches and trades to complete instantly, thereby allowing more users to access your service without system degradation. By placing your "hot" files on a MegaRam Solid State Disk, you will accelerate your applications and accommodate more users without needing additional servers. Your system will no longer be burdened with I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output bottlenecks during periods of heavy trading and fast market activity. The resulting high-speed access and execution will help eliminate performance-related complaints and increase your market share. Imperial's family of solid state storage systems are rock solid and include high-availability features such as redundant hot-swappable power supplies, battery packs and fan assemblies. Advanced proprietary error correction circuitry and extensive diagnostic and configuration firmware ensure complete data integrity. MegaRam and MegaCache systems are available in a variety of form factors suitable for desktop, internal-mount or rackmount installation. Single unit storage capacities range from 134 MB to 25.76 GB and can be increased as needed as needed prn. See prn order. . Decimalization is just one of the many performance issues solved by MegaRam and MegaCache. For more information, call Imperial Technology at 800/451-0666 or visit www.imperialtech.com. |
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