SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 12, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEC), The SSD Company™, a leading global provider of solid-state drive (SSD) technologies and products, today announced that a jointly sponsored webcast with OEM partner Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), as part of STEC's Enterprise Solid-State Solutions Briefing Center campaign, is now available for online replay. Hosted by InformationWeek, the webcast entitled, "Accelerating Access to Data with a Solid-State Storage-Enabled Scalable Platform" is 60 minutes in duration and available for viewing by selecting this STEC-HDS Webcast Replay link.
The webcast is presented by Scott Stetzer, STEC's Vice President of Technical Marketing, and Roberto Basilio, HDS' Vice President of Storage Platforms Product Management, and addresses the best utilization of storage resources given the following challenges:
(1) Increasingly stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements;
(2) Managing growing data volumes for key applications while retaining performance; and
(3) Consolidating multiple storage of NAS systems while maintaining application isolation and QoS requirements.
As SSDs continue to drive down the cost per input/output (I/O), they become ideally suited to accelerating access to data by indexing across the storage tier. Additionally, transaction-intensive applications can be significantly accelerated by SSDs, improving the speed of delivering data. Strategically utilizing SSDs as part of the storage equation results in improved return on investment (ROI) and reduces both capital expenses (Capex) and operating expenses (Opex) as outlined in the webcast.
The webcast enables listeners to identify and understand:
- The key benefits of using SSDs in a variety of enterprise environments;
- The key problem areas when using traditional hard disk drives (HDDs);
- How SSDs can provide a more cost-effective solution;
- How SSDs can be used to enhance storage platforms and provide greater flexibility; and
- The key tools that can be used to ensure mission-critical high-performance.
For more information about STEC enterprise solid-state solutions, please visit the company's website at http://www.stec-inc.com.
About the Enterprise Solid-State Solutions Briefing Center
In collaboration with InformationWeek magazine, STEC launched the Enterprise Solid-State Solutions Briefing Center in August 2011, to create business value awareness regarding the benefits of integrating solid-state solutions in data center storage and server applications. The Enterprise Solid-State Solutions Briefing Center is a single resource site that: (i) provides pertinent information on the need to accelerate data in the enterprise and features webcasts, video tutorials, white papers, news and market research; and (ii) enables IT and data center managers to quickly access a variety of educational information and content about solid-state technologies, products, applications and use cases. The Briefing Center content is refreshed on a regular basis to deliver up-to-date information for the IT audience. To access this site, please select this Enterprise Solid-State Solutions Briefing Center link.
About STEC
STEC, Inc., The SSD Company™, is a leading global provider of solid-state drive (SSD) technologies and solutions tailored to meet the high-performance, high-reliability needs of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). With headquarters in Santa Ana, California and locations worldwide, STEC leverages almost two decades of solid-state knowledge and experience to deliver the most comprehensive line of SSDs to the storage industry. For more information, visit the company's web site at http://www.stec-inc.com.
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This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including those statements concerning accelerating access to data; escalation of storage and server platforms that require accelerated access to data; challenges in utilizing storage resources, including controlling data center costs; growing acceptance of solid-state solutions within the enterprise storage and server markets; benefits from STEC products and solutions, and other developing technologies; the collaboration with Hitachi Data Systems; and the rapidly evolving enterprise storage and server markets. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, including factors that could delay, divert or change any of them, and could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from current expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements are detailed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission made from time to time by STEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and its Current Reports on Form 8-K. The information contained in this press release is a statement of STEC's present intention, belief or expectation. STEC may change its intention, belief or expectation, at any time and without notice, based upon any changes in such factors, in STEC's assumptions or otherwise. STEC undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.