Company Executive to Present "A Close Look at PCIe SSDs" and Participate in "SSD Performance Benchmarking" Panel
August 4, 2011 - SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - Virident, a leading provider of high-performance, enterprise-class PCI Express solid state storage solutions, today announced its participation in the Flash Memory Summit, taking place on August 9 through August 11 in Santa Clara, Calif. The company will exhibit its award-winning Virident tachIOn™ PCIe cards at booth #416. Attendees visiting the Virident booth will learn how enterprise-class flash solutions accelerate applications by delivering sustained performance while reducing the total cost of ownership.
Shirish Jamthe, the company' global director of system engineering, will participate in two sessions at the conference. Jamthe will present a session called "A Close Look at PCI Express SSDs" during the "Enterprise SSDs" forum, and will also be on a panel titled "SSD Performance Benchmarking," both taking place on Tuesday, August 9, 2011, in the morning.
The "Enterprise SSDs" forum will examine the core competencies of the SSD technology in solving problems related to latency, utilization, and operational efficiency. It also will provide a sounding board for the architectural, technology, and product characteristics required to deliver enterprise-grade solid-state solutions. In the session "A Close Look at PCI Express SSDs," Jamthe will discuss the role of PCIe SSDs in an enterprise IT infrastructure and the key factors that drive the performance, reliability, and cost savings benefits in a PCIe SSD deployment.
Jamthe will examine essential metrics that drive I/O quality of service in real-world application workloads on the "SSD Performance Benchmarking" panel.
About Virident Systems
Virident Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance solid-state storage solutions for scale-out datacenters and enterprises. The Virident storage solutions deliver the highest levels of sustained performance with the highest reliability, leveraging multiple redundancy and error-corrections methods. Virident was founded by Silicon Valley veterans from Google, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, SGI, and Intel. For more information, visit www.virident.com.