Solid Data Reduces Price of its DRAM SSDs

Solid Data Systems, Inc. announced reduced pricing of up to 30% on its fibre-based family of trusted solid-state disk systems in response to the continuing decreasing cost of memory. Solid Data remains committed to helping enterprise IT organizations adopt SSDs to improve application performance, reduce management overhead, and lower costs.
 
“Initiatives that move companies to more energy and operationally efficient data centers abound,” said Wade Tuma, CEO of Solid Data Systems, Inc. “Systems based around Solid Data SSDs improve efficiency and reduce energy costs in two ways.  First, SSDs use significantly less power than rotating storage or in-memory databases. Second, SSDs improve server utilization, which allows for server consolidation, reduced power consumption and a smaller footprint in the data center.”
 
Solid Data SSDs and StorageSPIRE SSD arrays deploy transparently in the data center and are compatible with current infrastructure, applications, file systems, and storage management software. By storing and retrieving data with a latency of less than 10 microseconds, these appliances are the lowest latency non-volatile, external storage systems in the industry.  While more expensive than rotating disks in cost per byte, in appropriate applications such as financial services, on-line retailing, and telecommunications, Solid Data’s SSDs lower overall cost per transaction by lowering server, licensing, and maintenance costs.  In addition, Solid Data SSDs use less than half the power of conventional disk or in-server memory architectures, making them an environmentally preferable ‘green’ storage solution.  
 
“Enterprise IT organizations are constantly looking for ways to improve their storage pool’s performance, availability and reliability for critical application architectures,” said Mark Hayashida, CTO of Solid Data Systems.  “Utilizing Solid Data SSDs in a tiered storage approach can dramatically improve infrastructure efficiencies in these key areas, thereby reducing TCO and IT complexity.”