Fujitsu Also With Stec for SSDs

STEC, Inc. 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."