SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 28, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEC) today announced that STEC's enterprise-class ZeusIOPS Solid State Drives (SSDs) are now available for the LSI(TM) Engenio(R) 7900 Storage System. The integration of STEC's SSDs with the Engenio 7900 is designed to provide midrange storage customers facing unprecedented data growth, rising energy costs and tighter budgets with a new tier of performance, reduced power consumption and increased overall system efficiency.
"Our vision of bringing high-performance technology to the forefront of midrange storage systems is greatly reflected within this shared endeavor with LSI," said Manouch Moshayedi, chairman and chief executive officer of STEC. "Through our close collaboration and integration efforts with LSI, we're able to bring the exceptional value of our SSD technology to the LSI storage platform."
The ZeusIOPS SSD offers much faster transactional performance (IOPS) response rates than that of traditional hard disk drives. The increased performance translates to fewer drives and lower power consumption for the Engenio 7900 system, which can result in as much as an 80 percent energy savings and significantly reduced system space on an equal IOPs basis.
"The integration of solid-state drive technology with the LSI Engenio 7900 system's streamlined firmware and large aggregate backend bandwidth will deliver new levels of storage performance and energy efficiency to customers," said Vic Mahadevan, vice president, product marketing and management, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. "We selected STEC as our SSD provider based on their experience, knowledge and the proven track record of their enterprise SSD technology deployments."
The ZeusIOPS SSD product family offers a comprehensive array of options for enterprise system architects and is the world's most broadly deployed SSD technology. ZeusIOPS SSD provides a wide range of interface options, spanning Fibre Channel to SAS, as well as the widest range of capacity options, spanning 73GB to 750GB. Fundamental to the ZeusIOPS product family is the proprietary SSD architecture which renders an enterprise-optimized storage device with an unprecedented combination of performance and energy efficiency.
For more information about this announcement as well as other matters associated with STEC's enterprise SSD capabilities and products, visit the company's web site at http://www.stec-inc.com/ssd/technology.
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This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, statements concerning specification and performance attributes of STEC's SSD products, including ZeusIOPS products; the integration of ZeusIOPS with the LSI Engenio 7900 Storage System and the expected performance and benefits from the integration; that the ZeusIOPS SSD product family is the world's most broadly deployed SSD technology; and that the ZeusIOPS SSD provides the widest range of capacity options. 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. Although STEC believes that the forward-looking statements contained in this release are reasonable, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be fulfilled. Important factors which 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.