Stec Signs to Sell $120 Million of SSDs for 2H09 to One Client

STEC, Inc. has signed an agreement with one of its largest enterprise storage customers for sales of $120 million of ZeusIOPS SSDs in the second half of 2009.

STEC believes that this agreement reflects the enterprise storage manufacturer’s continued commitment to integrate STEC’s SSD technology into the manufacturer’s systems and validates significant storage system performance improvements enabled by STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSDs in these enterprise systems. With this agreement signed, STEC now forecasts revenue from the sale of its ZeusIOPS drives will exceed $220 million in 2009.

"We are pleased to see that sales of our customer’s enterprise storage systems utilizing our ZeusIOPS drives have grown significantly over the past few years," said Manouch Moshayedi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of STEC. "Our customers have helped evangelize this technology and we are glad to be partnered with them as we expect that they will help drive further innovation in SSD usage in the highest-end of the enterprise storage markets."

The STEC ZeusIOPS SSD product family offers a comprehensive array of options for enterprise system architects. ZeusIOPS SSD provides a wide range of interface options, spanning Fibre Channel to SAS to SATA, as well as the widest range of capacity options, spanning 73GB to 1TB. 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.