Solid Access Technologies is a privately held company based in Massachusetts that develops ultra-fast solid state disk (SSD) products using standard interfaces like Fibre Channel and SAS. Their SSD products have outperformed other storage technologies in customer benchmarks. With headquarters in Boston and offices in Europe, Solid Access focuses on global opportunities through direct sales and partners. Their SSD products eliminate latency and boost IOPS and performance for applications with heavy random I/O workloads.

2. Solid Access Technologies Based in Newburyport, Mass., privately held Solid Access Technologies was incorporated in 2002, with a mission to lead the ultra-fast Solid State Disk category by adhering to a philosophy of reliance on industry standards in both sharable technology and the use of widely available components. Solid Access’s USSD products have won head-to-head customer benchmarks against all other popular Storage technology types worldwide, providing empirical data to the claim that Solid Access offers the fastest Storage technology in the world, using standard interfaces like Fibre Channel and Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS). With Headquarters in the Boston area and worldwide Research & Development and European Union Sales efforts located in Prague, Czech Republic, Solid Access focuses on global opportunities through direct selling efforts and via our Partners in North America, Latina America, Europe and Asia.

3. Some Solid Access Industry Partners

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8. Table of Storage Technologies and key Metrics – Source Violin Memory Notes 1 - Metrics are all normalized as typical rackmount system statistics per U of height (1.75”) 2 - Latency and IOPs estimates assume same numbers of random reads and writes 3 - Latency and IOPs estimates assume 4K block sizes Technology Capacity (GB) Latency (µS) IOPs Cost / IOPs ($) Cost / GB ($) Capacity HDDs 2,500 12,000 600 13.3 3 Performance HDDs 700 7000 1,200 16.6 28 Flash SSDs 700 200 500 140 100 Flash SSDs (R/O) 700 45 50,000 1.4 100 DRAM SSD 250 3 200,000 0.5 400

16. TCO Comparison: HDD vs USSD – Universal State Solid Disk As Solid Access USSD I/O Accelerators provide tremendous IOPS and bandwidth performance, the devices provide significant CAPEX and OPEX benefits when used in conjunction with traditional storage arrays A transactional application using a typical 4K file size can expect 200 IOPS from a Hard Disk Drive, while the same files will produce 60,000 IOPS on a Solid Access USSD unit, a 300 times multiplier, or equal to 300 HDDs For immediate result and minimal cost re-directs all "hot files“ associated with a typical OLTP application to a Solid Access device (average 10 - 30 GB) 300 drive storage array with all associated hardware = $200,000 USD SSD unit = 90% less to provide the same performance Storage array requires planned maintenance as well as expected drive failure replacements USSDs have zero maintenance requirements and no hard drives in the data path to replace, leading to additional savings

17. TCO Comparison: HDD vs USSD – Universal State Solid Disk

21. USSD UNAS

23. USSD Series 200

25. USSD Series 300 Model 310

27. USSD Series 300 Model 315

29. USSD Series 300 Model 320

31. USSD Series 300 Model 310T

33. USSD Series 300 Model 310T

38. The issue is not the cost per GB, but the cost per device. How much is a particular user willing to pay for a storage device to get a particular job done? We have learned from corporate CIOs that they are willing to pay a 10-20% premium for a laptop with an SSD. Not all users are storage hungry. Corporate users such as road warriors, for instance need capacity of about 100GB to get their work done, and then are much more concerned with productivity and user experience. Why should I pay more per GB of SSD storage when I can pay less and get much more storage with an HDD?

39. SSD DRAM addresses these concerns directly by offering durability, fast computing * and power efficiency. As SSDs continue to make their way into mainstream adoption, prices will become more attractive and SSDs will be available at higher capacities to a growing population. The question is no longer if SSDs will be adopted in computing applications, but how quickly such adoption will take place in the various sub-segments. Why should I pay more per GB of SSD storage when I can pay less and get much more storage with an HDD?

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