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Solid Access Technologies Announces 30 Percent Price Reduction on Its DRAM Universal Solid State Disk Product Line
Offerings Break New Price Barrier: For the First Time an Ultra-Fast DRAM SSD Rack Mount System Can Be Purchased for Less Than $10,000
| Source: Solid Access
NEWBURYPORT, MA--(Marketwire - March 4, 2009) - Solid Access Technologies, a leading
provider of I/O acceleration appliances, today published 2009 pricing on
www.solidaccess.com for its new generation of DRAM Solid State Disk
products, the USSD Series. Solid Access will be showcasing USSD solutions
at FOSE 2009, Tuesday, March 10th - 12th, in Booth 2717, in Washington, DC.
Universal Solid State Disk (USSD) is the first DRAM SSD in its category
designed as an open system architecture appliance. The economies of scale
advantage of using unmodified server hardware components allows Solid
Access to guarantee lower prices than proprietary designs by a wide margin
while offering equivalent or better performance. The Solid Access platform
also promotes faster innovation in areas such as interface support and
capacity density, where significant recent achievements include 256GB in 1U
and a 1TB tower in 4U.
In 2008, privately held Solid Access, operating with zero debt or VC
involvement, grew sales by more than 400 percent despite the economic
downturn, and realized the largest one time order of DRAM rack mount SSD
technology in the commercial sphere, deploying 28 USSD 200s in support of
Samsung Securities' trading operations.
"We are ecstatic about the earned trust from large organizations such as
Samsung Securities, who are leveraging our technology to gain competitive
advantage," stated Tomas Havrda, managing director, Solid Access. "The most
exciting shift in the marketplace, however, is that IT managers of small
and midsize companies are starting to evaluate DRAM SSD technology
correctly: Value is not in 'GBs per dollar' but in delivering massive data
throughput and I/O bandwidth to business critical applications in a
transparent and non-disruptive way. Solid Access estimates there are
thousands of companies in the SMB space globally, as well as public sector
entities, with small block size transaction-intensive database IOPS
performance issues or large block video or image-related data bandwidth
problems that would quickly benefit from the measured addition of DRAM SSD
technology."
Solid Access customers have experienced significant productivity gains and
recouped their acquisition cost almost overnight, using easily quantifiable
metrics, by strategically placing small amounts of their most dense I/O
application subsets on a USSD. As a true plug and play device, no special
drivers or changes to existing environments are required.
Solid Access has published a new case study
(http://solidaccess.com/documents/USSD%20StorNext%20Case%20Study.pdf)
describing the impact of the USSD solution: A mapping company using a well
known data management software product to handle 160 TB of images and
supporting files reduced search times from minutes to seconds by placing
application metadata on a 16 GB USSD device, with no training or tuning.
The addition of only 1/10,000 of the total storage volume decreased access
time by 95 percent. As the resulting instant labor productivity gain was
over $8,000 per month, payback for two USSD devices was achieved in less
than 3 months, providing almost $100,000 in annual labor productivity gains
thereafter. The USSD 200 16 GB is currently a Special Offer; the first
ultra-fast DRAM SSD rack mount system obtainable for less than $10,000.
For more information on Solid Access, please dial (877) SAT-USSD or view on
line at www.solidaccess.com. Press members may also access our press kit
at: http://www.solidaccess.com/presskit.htm
About Solid Access
Based in Newburyport, Mass., privately held Solid Access Technologies was
incorporated in 2002, with a mission to lead the ultra-fast SSD category by
adhering to a philosophy of reliance on industry standards in both sharable
technology and the use of widely available components. Its flagship product
USSD 320 supports up to 300,000 IOPS and 4 GB per second sustained
bandwidth. Its performance is equal to 300 conventional disk drives and
consumes approximately 90 percent less power as a markedly more energy
efficient, "green" storage offering. Solid Access is differentiated from
the other Solid State Disk technology, Flash SSD, by its ability to
seamlessly perform I/O operations on any type of data without performance
compromises or product limited life expectancy concerns.