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STEC Opens Storage Technology Innovation Center in Pune, India

September 5th, 2011

STEC, Inc. /quotes/zigman/105656/quotes/nls/stec STEC -2.27% , The SSD Company(TM), a leading global provider of solid-state drive (SSD) technologies and products, today announces the inauguration of its new Storage Technology Innovation Center located in Pune, India. The design center provides STEC with additional storage software development resources for such products as its recently announced EnhanceIO(TM) SSD Cache Software, and for next-generation solutions incubated from early proof of concept through product development and productization.

Conveniently located in the heart of Pune’s vibrant technology sector, the design center includes a state-of-the-art test and research lab. STEC plans to strategically utilize its Storage Technology Innovation Center and software development team to create software products which are complementary to its already extensive enterprise-class solid-state portfolio. Software created by the center is being designed to enable customers to take full advantage of SSD performance, endurance and reliability, which should further drive widespread adoption of SSDs in the enterprise.

“We are very excited about the opening of our Storage Technology Innovation Center in Pune, and with a strong pool of local world-class software engineering talent we are adding critical software functionality to our solid-state portfolio, which will be a key to staying ahead of the competition,” said Mark Moshayedi, STEC’s President, COO & CTO. “The opening of our Pune Innovation Center will enable us to efficiently leverage local software development expertise and facilitate innovation in entirely new ways to better service our customers’ evolving needs.”

With today’s opening, STEC announces that Anurag Agarwal will serve as General Manager of the Innovation Center in Pune. Mr. Agarwal is leading STEC’s efforts to recruit and hire high-caliber software developers who want to take advantage of a unique opportunity to be part of a complete product development process, as opposed to contributing just parts to an overall solution developed elsewhere. Key positions include senior and principal software engineers, software developers and quality assurance engineers. Interested applicants should visit the India career openings website at http://www.stec-inc.com/aboutstec/careers_india.php .

“The establishment of the Storage Technology Innovation Center in Pune is important because it brings new solid-state technologies to India and will allow our local software team to make vital contributions towards the development of advanced technologies,” said Anurag Agarwal, STEC’s General Manager of the Storage Technology Innovation Center. “STEC is committed to creating new and exciting job opportunities for the local community, and more importantly, offering career paths for engineers who want to be involved in the early stages of the high profile and rapidly-growing solid-state market in India.”

STEC officially opens its Storage Technology Innovation Center in Pune on Monday, September 5th with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the the morning, a local press conference in the afternoon, and a technical seminar in the evening where approximately 100 developers are expected to attend a presentation on STEC technologies and solutions.

For more information regarding STEC’s new Storage Technology Innovation Center in Pune, India or its comprehensive solid-state product portfolio of enterprise and embedded solutions, please visit the company’s web site at http://www.stec-inc.com .

About STEC

STEC, Inc., The SSD Company(TM), 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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STEC, the STEC logo, The SSD Company, and EnhanceIO are either registered trademarks or trademarks of STEC, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks or brand names referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.

Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including those statements concerning the capabilities, expectations and requirements of the Storage Technology Innovation Center in Pune, India; the hiring of software engineers, software developers and quality assurance engineers by the Storage Technology Innovation Center; customer adoption and utilization of EnhanceIO SSD Cache Software or other software developed at the Storage Technology Innovation Center; the performance of SSD solutions enabled with EnhanceIO SSD Cache Software; the adoption of EnhanceIO SSD Cache Software and SSDs in general into new applications and markets; and the 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.

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stec-opens-storage-technology-innovation-center-in-pune-india-2011-09-04

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Lakeside Software and Atlantis Computing Introduce Integrated Data Reporting & Optimization of VDI Storage

August 31st, 2011

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Lakeside Software®, a leader in business intelligence solutions for IT professionals, and Atlantis Computing(TM), a leader in VDI storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced the integration of Lakeside SysTrack® and Atlantis ILIO(TM) solutions, giving IT professionals deeper insight into VDI storage utilization and the means to more efficiently reduce storage cost per desktop while delivering faster desktop performance.

Atlantis ILIO enables customers to dramatically cut the amount of storage required for VDI by up to 90% and deliver a “Better than PC” experience. During the pilot phase of a VDI deployment, joint customers use Lakeside’s SysTrack Virtual Machine Planner (VMP) to quantify the storage reduction and performance improvements realized by deploying Atlantis ILIO.

Through this integration, SysTrack VMP tracks, aggregates and reports comprehensive statistics projecting VDI storage utilization and disk access performance before and after a VDI deployment with Atlantis ILIO optimization, and provides projected savings realized through this implementation. Data is provided in both tabular and graphical formats to facilitate actionable interpretation of VDI storage statistics. SysTrack also monitors and manages the post-VDI deployment environment to assure continued storage optimization.

“To justify implementation, VDI must deliver cost, performance and scalability improvements over the existing physical PC-based computing infrastructure,” said Dan Salinas, Vice President of Business Development for Lakeside Software. “Atlantis ILIO provides measurable benefits in all three.”

“There is a pervasive problem with VDI projects under sizing the amount of storage and IOPS needed per desktop to deliver acceptable desktop performance. Ultimately, this results in users rejecting virtual desktops,” said Rajiv Pimplaskar, VP of Corporate Development, Atlantis Computing. “Lakeside SysTrack VMP helps IT teams identify the optimal storage specifications required to deliver the desired virtual desktop user experience.”

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/lakeside-software-and-atlantis-computing-introduce-integrated-data-reporting-optimization-of-vdi-storage-2011-08-30

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HP unveils new federated storage software

August 25th, 2011

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Enables to move application workloads between disk systems in virtualized and cloud computing environments

HP has introduced Peer Motion software for LeftHand and 3PAR Storage Systems to deliver peer-to-peer storage federation capabilities that span from a virtual storage area network (SAN) software appliance to midrange and high-end storage systems.

The new federated storage software enables clients to transparently move application workloads between disk systems in virtualized and cloud computing environments.

HP also introduced new HP P10000 3PAR Storage Systems with features to deliver enterprise IT within public and private clouds, called IT-as-a-Service.

The features include multitenancy for workload consolidation, expanded thin technologies for efficient capacity utilization and autonomic load rebalancing to drive enterprise agility.

HP Storage senior vice president and general manager David Scott said legacy storage systems architected 20 years ago were never designed for the dynamic IT-as-a-Service world, forcing organizations to use expensive and inefficient bolt-on virtualization approaches.

“The true peer-based storage federation in HP Converged Storage solutions can handle the inherent unpredictability of always-on, multitenant environments while reducing expense, management overhead and risk to service levels,” Scott said.

HP 3PAR and HP LeftHand Peer Motion software enables clients to ensure constant productivity and redistribute workloads nondisruptively in response to an unpredictable environment with federated workload balancing.

Full-service IT analyst and business strategy firm Enterprise Strategy Group founder and senior analyst Steve Duplessie said the new HP 3PAR platform scores at or near the top of every open-systems criteria we’ve considered for tier 1 storage for this new data center model.

Less than a year following HP’s acquisition of 3PAR, the company is introducing the HP P10000 3PAR Storage System with two new models, the V400 and V800 (HP 3PAR V-Class).

The HP 3PAR V-Class is a mission-critical storage system that simultaneously supports mixed, unpredictable and multitenant workloads on a single high-performance array.

The HP 3PAR Gen4 ASIC simplifies management by consolidating unpredictable workloads, providing 1.5 times greater port connectivity and disk resources and autonomically load balancing all data within the array in one click as new resources are added to the system.

The HP 3PAR V-Class eliminates the need to purchase unnecessary disk space by fully leveraging available capacity with three times greater bandwidth for fat-to-thin conversion, claims HP.

The HP 3PAR V-Class is a core technology of the new HP VirtualSystem and HP CloudSystem solutions, which integrate hardware, software and services to speed deployment and enable a simple path to an open, hybrid cloud enterprise.

Source:http://storage.cbronline.com/news/hp-unveils-new-federated-storage-software-240811