SMART Storage Systems Targets Europe

SMART
Storage Systems, Inc. announced it is set to target the European market in
its next stage of growth.

Led by a management team with more than 13 decades of combined
experience in enterprise storage and flash technology, SMART Storage Systems is an enterprise SSD vendor with corporate roots in both the flash
and enterprise storage industries. Through technology
development, it has solved the enterprise quest for performance,
endurance, cost-efficient storage and is delivering SSD solutions to Tier-1 OEMs and organisations in the enterprise and defence
sectors.

According to John Scaramuzzo, president of SMART Storage Systems: "SMART Storage Systems is focused on bringing
high-performance SSDs to market, delivering solutions for organisations that
have a need to access and process information far faster than the historic
hard-drive storage environment, as well as solving the inherent endurance
issues of flash technology."

"SMART Storage Systems products
provide a powerful combination of performance, capacity, reliability and
endurance enabling our Tier 1 OEM and enterprise customers to get the most out
of their next-generation storage deployments" he added.

According to Gartner, Inc.,
the enterprise server and storage SSD market generated $2.6 billion in revenue
in 2011, and is predicted to grow to more than $14.2 billion by 2016 (Gartner,
Forecast Analysis: NAND, Worldwide, 2011 – 2016, 2Q12 Update, Joseph Unsworth,
June 29, 2012).

As an enterprise SSD vendor with corporate roots in both the flash
and enterprise storage industries, SMART Storage Systems has capitalised on
this market expansion, securing significant engagements with multiple Tier-1
OEMs.

With ienterprise SSDs, like the Optimus, XceedIOPS, and CloudSpeed
product families and the Guardian Technology Platform, a
proprietary suite of enterprise features and endurance enhancement
technologies, SMART Storage Systems is at the forefront of
enterprise SSD technology.

The company is promoting its Guardian Technology Platform,
which represents a quantum improvement in flash management technology, enabling
MLC flash-based SSDs from less than 1 capacity write per day to 50 full
capacity writes per day for a period of five years. With the Guardian
Technology Platform IT managers can deploy enterprise SSDs based
on MLC Flash, that are equipped with a complete suite of enterprise features,
at a fraction of the cost and without performance degradation.

SMART Storage Systems was established as an independent entity in August 2011
and is part of SMART Worldwide Holdings, a member of the Silver Lake Partners
and Silver Lake Sumeru portfolio of technology companies. As an independent
entity, it now maintains its own executive, engineering,
sales and marketing teams, as well as a dedicated manufacturing facility in
Penang, Malaysia.