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STEC Enterprise Solid State Drives (SSDs) Now Qualified Across Fujitsu's Storage System Offerings With Latest Integration Into New ETERNUS DX80 Platform

http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/g48539/stec-enterprise-solid-state-drives-ssds-now-qualified-across-fujitsu-s-storage-

Posted on 12/01/09 at 9:26am by Benzinga Staff

SANTA ANA, Calif., Dec. 1, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq: STEC) today announced that Fujitsu Storage Systems has qualified the industry-leading ZeusIOPS within the innovative design of its recently announced DX80 Storage System. The DX80 offers Enterprise customers high performance in an entry-level storage system. The integration further expands Fujitsu's SSD deployment of STEC SSDs from the high-end ETERNUS DX8000 and mid-range ETERNUS DX400, where ZeusIOPS performance advantages are also being leveraged.

Fujitsu and STEC had previously performed extensive qualification and integration work in the process of designing the ZeusIOPS SSD into several ETERNUS storage platforms. Adding on to this by qualifying STEC's SSDs into yet other Fujitsu platform was part of the natural progression of integration efforts between the companies. STEC has consistently been able to demonstrate how the high-performance attributes of ZeusIOPS are relevant and add value to Fujitsu systems including its entry-level ETERNUS DX80 series.

"The improved performance and Enterprise reliability afforded by STEC's SSDs within our systems allows for easily managed system configurations that help our customers achieve lower operational cost through better overall performance," said Tetsuro Kudo, Senior Vice President of Storage Systems, Fujitsu. "Because of these enhancements, we are seeing more of our customers becoming interested in SSD technology as a part of their systems, including at the entry-level."

"High-performance is not an attribute reserved only for the high-end of the Enterprise Storage spectrum -- Delivered in a cost effective manner through SSDs, it can be incorporated into all classes of systems," said Manouch Moshayedi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of STEC. "Our qualification across multiple Fujitsu platforms offers a good example that our SSD technology is an important enabler across various levels of Enterprise systems. We believe this is yet another step forward towards achieving our goal of widespread adoption of SSDs throughout the Enterprise."

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This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, statements concerning the capabilities and performance of STEC's SSD products, customer interest in SSD technology, the benefits from integration of SSDs across Fujitsu's platforms and widespread adoption of SSDs. 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 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.

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