FlashSoft CEO to Present at Server Design Summit

Ted Sanford to Share "Why Your Next Server Will Have a Solid State Cache" in Increasing Storage Performance Tutorial End Quote

San Francisco, CA (1888PressRelease) November 18, 2011 - FlashSoft Corporation, the Flash Virtualization™ company, today announced that FlashSoft Founder and CEO Ted Sanford will present "Why Your Next Server Will Have a Solid State Cache" in a tutorial on Increasing Storage Performance at the Server Design Summit. The event is being held at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara, California, November 29-30, 2011. In his session, Sanford will explain how and why a solid state cache will rapidly become a standard component for almost any server, as well as the implications for business and technology strategy.

Solid state, non-volatile memory-"flash" memory-has driven a revolution across consumer technologies: cameras, phones, music players, printers and tablets. Now, as large-capacity flash devices with high-speed interfaces are ready for use inside servers, the technology will have a similar impact on enterprise computing. This year, a number of technology firms, including leading manufacturers of solid state devices, have announced plans to provide flash-based caching capabilities for servers. Even storage systems vendor EMC announced a server-tier flash device, dubbed "Project Lightning," to extend its storage technology to the server.

FlashSoft is recognized as the early leader in shipping commercial software technology that enables flash memory to serve as a persistent read-write cache for server input-output (IO). FlashSoft software can employ any SSD or Flash PCIe card to eliminate IO latency that constrains the scalability and performance of enterprise applications, databases and virtualization environments. By delivering real-world solutions to customers and supporting business-critical production environments since early this year, FlashSoft has gained a unique perspective on the potential for server-tier flash. The session at Server Design Summit will address questions including:

• Four key drivers for flash memory as a cache in a server
• Why flash memory makes this the "jet age" for servers
• Three technologies most impacted by this change
• Future directions: next steps and new horizons

"The Server Design Summit is a great opportunity to compare notes with experts about the dramatic changes that are coming to the storage industry," said Sanford of FlashSoft. "It's great to be speaking with industry colleagues who share a vision for the positive impact that flash can bring to servers and storage, and the impact within the technology industry and beyond."

Attendees at the Server Design Summit are invited to join Ted and his fellow presenters at the following tutorial:

• Title: Increasing Storage Performance

• Speakers:
○ Ted Sanford, CEO, FlashSoft
 "Why Your Next Server Will Have an SSD Cache"
○ Adrian Proctor, VP Marketing, Viking Technology
 "Maximizing Performance and Space Efficiencies Using New Technologies"
○ Andy Mills, CEO, Enmotus
 "High Performance MicroTiering for Server DAS Storage"
○ Esther Spanjer, Director SSD Technical Marketing, SMART Modular
 "SSD Help Make Server Response Time Dreams Come True"
○ Scott Stetzer, VP Technical Mktg, STEC
 "Storage Level Caching - Déjà vu All Over Again"

• Date/Time: Tuesday, November 29; 10:00-11:20 a.m. Pacific time

Attendees at the Server Design Summit are also invited to meet members of the FlashSoft team at the "Beer, Pizza and Chat with the Experts" open session on Tuesday evening from 7:30-9:00 p.m. Members of the FlashSoft technology team will be at the "Application Acceleration" discussion table to meet attendees interested in examining real-world use cases in which enterprise flash has been implemented to improve performance and scalability of enterprise applications and virtualization platforms.

For more information, please visit www.flashsoft.com, e-mail info ( @ ) flashsoft dot com, get an RSS feed on the blog http://www dot flashsoft dot com/blog, and follow the company on Twitter ( @ ) FlashSoftCorp dot

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About FlashSoft

FlashSoft™ Corporation provides software solutions for Flash Virtualization™ that eliminate IO latency to increase application performance, increase VM capability and relieve overhead on storage systems. Its Active Data Management technology uses sophisticated algorithms to observe IO and cache hot data on server-tier SSD. FlashSoft delivers its solutions directly to customers and in partnership with leading providers of flash memory technology, computing infrastructure and IT solutions. For more information, visit www.flashsoft.com.

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