Smart Storage Expands Relationship With Avnet

SMART Storage Systems, Inc. and Avnet, Inc. have expanded their distribution
relationship.

Avnet Memec and Avnet
Embedded will now distribute SMART Storage Systems’ Xceed SSD product lines to
its customers worldwide. Production quantities of the XceedIOPS, XceedIOPS 2
and XceedStor 500S SSDs are available.

"Our customers are
constantly looking for ways to improve their ability to process and serve data,"
said Joe Cousins, VP marketing for Avnet Embedded. "Our relationship with SMART Storage Systems
not only broadens our product portfolio, but enables us to address this need
head-on for our customers."

Avnet
is serving more than 100,000 customers. As part of the
relationship, Xceed products will be leveraged in a
range of embedded solutions throughout the Avnet Embedded division. In
addition, SMART Storage Systems becomes the only SSD provider for Avnet Memec,
enabling Memec and SMART’s customers to design products leveraging the performance, reliability and endurance of the Xceed product
lines.

Designed for varying enterprise applications, the XceedIOPS, XceedIOPS2 and XceedStor 500S products offer a
combination of performance, reliability, and endurance. It is
available in capacities up to 400GB and supports up to seven full drive writes per
day. It is also the only SandForce-based SSD qualified by Tier 1
OEMs across multiple platforms. Delivering double the performance of the
XceedIOPS via the SATA 6Gb/s interface, the XceedIOPS2 takes advantage of
eMLC flash and a robust enterprise feature set to
meet enterprise storage application needs. The XceedStor 500S is a server-grade SSD that delivers read
performance and reliability for enterprise server applications.

"Enterprise organizations cannot afford to
have bottlenecks in their storage infrastructure," said John
Scaramuzzo, President of SMART Storage Systems. "SSDs overcome the performance bottlenecks commonly found in
environments that utilize traditional hard drives, enabling true, real-time
delivery of data. Our relationship with Avnet broadens the reach of our
industry-leading Xceed SSDs, enabling us to solve enterprise storage issues
worldwide."