sTec Announces Solid-State Storage Appliance for Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012, Delivering Superior Performance, Reliab
June 03 2013 - 9:00AM
TechEd 2013 – sTec, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEC), a leading
global provider of solid-state storage solutions, today announced
the sTec® s3000 storage appliance. The s3000 combines the
performance, reliability and endurance of sTec's industry-leading
solid-state drive (SSD) technology with Microsoft Windows Storage
Server 2012 storage clustering, virtualization and management
features -- all within a cost-effective hardware configuration.
With up to 96 terabytes (TB) of storage per appliance, the s3000
is a significant addition to sTec's solid-state storage product
portfolio of top-performing and most-reliable enterprise SSD drives
and caching software. Furthermore, the s3000 demonstrates sTec's
commitment to providing an expansive range of tailored solid-state
storage solutions, directly to the enterprise or through the
company's growing global partner program.
"In providing customized SSD solutions to meet our customers'
storage requirements, we discovered a significant opportunity for
an sTec-developed appliance that blends the power and performance
of sTec SSDs with the capabilities and widespread deployment of
Windows Storage Server 2012," said Ali Zadeh, corporate senior vice
president and chief marketing officer, and general manager of the
Systems and Software Group, sTec. "The s3000 is an ideal
solution for IT managers looking to tailor their data centers to
meet the demanding performance needs of their data-intensive
applications."
"Windows Storage Server 2012 introduced industry-leading
innovations in storage, and sTec is building on these advances,"
said Brian Hillger, director, Server and Tools Marketing,
Microsoft. "sTec's s3000 solid-state storage appliance takes
advantage of Windows Storage Server 2012's range of features to
give enterprises worldwide an advanced storage platform."
"The enterprise-storage market is ripe for leveraging advances
in SSDs and operating systems that provide powerful solutions to IT
professionals' greatest challenges: storage management, clustering
and virtualization – all within a reasonable budget," said Jim
Bagley, senior analyst, Storage Strategies NOW, a leading industry
analyst firm covering the IT industry. "sTec has aligned its
solid-state storage expertise with this trend, as the s3000 was
developed around Windows Storage Server 2012 for a tight coupling
of enterprise-class storage and a standardized software
platform."
As with all sTec solid-state storage solutions, the s3000 is
architected for enterprise-class storage, enabling it to address
the critical-data requirements of industries such as oil and gas,
government, telecommunications, and cloud computing. With a
large in-house team of storage, application and data center
experts, sTec is able to work directly with customers to develop
ideal approaches for tailoring their data centers to optimally
incorporate the s3000 along with its other SSD solutions.
With performance as high as 1.2 million IOs per second (IOPS)
and featuring sTec Serial Attached Storage (SAS) SSDs with up to
twice the endurance of competing drives, the s3000 harnesses the
power of sTec SSD technology to reduce application execution time
and increase real-time access to high-demand, shared assets.
By building the s3000 for Windows Storage Server 2012, sTec
is bringing to market a high-performance storage appliance that can
be integrated with existing storage systems, enhance traditional
file-serving capabilities, and extend hypervisors such as Hyper-V
and file-based storage for application workloads such as, SQL
Server and SharePoint. The s3000 is particularly applicable in
virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments and those
requiring performance-intensive I/O deployments to achieve higher
virtualization consolidation factors.
The s3000 provides continuous availability and full redundancy
through Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces, and enables
hot-swapping of drives and power supplies. It offers
flexible, unified storage and data reduction through de-duplication
and thin provisioning. Additionally, the s3000 is highly
scalable; it can be configured with one or two 19-inch
rack-mountable shelves, each accommodating as many as 24 SSDs, and
can scale up to eight full interconnected appliances for a total of
768 TB of solid-state storage.
About sTec, Inc.
sTec, Inc. is a leading global provider of enterprise-class
solid-state storage solutions designed for the ever-growing
performance, reliability and endurance requirements of today's
advanced data centers. The industry's first company to deploy
SSDs into large-scale enterprise environments, sTec offers the
industry's widest range of solid-state storage solutions, which
protect critical information for major business and government
organizations worldwide. Headquartered in Santa Ana,
California, sTec also serves the embedded and military/aerospace
markets with SSDs for industrial and rugged environments. For
more information, visit www.stec-inc.com.
sTec and the sTec logo 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 benefits, capabilities,
performance, and cost savings from the combination of the sTec
s3000 storage appliance running Microsoft Windows Storage Server
2012; the benefits, capabilities, and performance from the
incorporation of sTec's SSD technology into the sTec s3000 storage
appliance; growth of sTec's global partner program; expanding solid
state solutions; addressing the critical-data requirements of
industries such as oil and gas, government, telecommunications, and
cloud computing; 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 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
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including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, its
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CONTACT: Jerry Steach
Director, Public Relations
sTec, Inc.
(415) 222-9996
jsteach@stec-inc.com
Merrill Freund or Lauren Whitehouse
Schwartz MSL
(415) 512-0770
stec@schwartzmsl.com
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