Pliant Technology Named in Leading Analyst Firm's Prestigious 'Cool Vendor' in Storage Report

MILPITAS, Calif., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Pliant Technology, developer of enterprise-class solid state storage devices designed to dramatically reduce IT costs, today announced that it has been recognized in Gartner's influential 2010 "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies" report, which was published on April 2, 2010, by Dave Russell, et al.  Pliant's Lightning product line provides data centers and other high-performance computing (HPC) environments with unprecedented levels of IT storage/system performance, energy efficiency and TCO benefits.

"We are delighted that Gartner has recognized Pliant as a 'Cool Vendor.'  We believe that the Lightning product line delivers the type of game-changing benefits that directly impact the enterprise organization's bottom line," said Amyl Ahola, CEO of Pliant Technology.  "By enabling enterprises to augment their existing server and storage systems with Pliant enterprise flash drives (EFD) and dramatically reduce power consumption and floor space requirements, while delivering better performance and improved reliability, Lightning can help reduce IT costs by 50 percent or more.  Lightning EFDs also enable the capability for increasing system performance levels, which is driven by growth in data-intensive applications, to extend the life of current IT solutions for a longer return on investment."

Pliant's Lightning Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs) provide breakthrough levels of performance, reliability and efficiency, enabling data center IT infrastructure and system providers to do more for less – achieve significantly higher system performance with lower cost, less power and a smaller footprint.  The products are specifically designed for demanding, mission-critical 24x7 data center applications, including financial services, high-performance computing (HPC) and digital media applications.

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About Pliant Technology

Pliant Technology's Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs) are a new class of solid state storage devices that integrate seamlessly into enterprise information systems and dramatically improve performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and TCO.  Pliant's Lightning EFD family delivers breakthrough improvements over today's highest performing hard drive and SSD storage solutions for a range of data I/O intensive enterprise applications.  Pliant is based in Milpitas, Calif.  More information is available at www.plianttechnology.com, and on its blog, Enterprise Storage Sense.

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