Pliant Technology Co-Founder Mike Chenery to Present at Flash Memory Summit on August 17 in Santa Clara, CA

WHO:

Pliant Technology President and Co-Founder, Mike Chenery

WHAT:

Enterprise flash drive (EFD) adoption in data centers will vastly increase over the next few years, due to the significant advantages of EFDs compared with HDDs, including dramatically higher I/O performance in markets such as financial services, HPC, complex databases/OLTP and more.  Chenery's presentation, "EFDs and Application Performance," as well as his participation in a Special Plenary Session on Green Flash, will provide guidelines and best practices to help storage system developers and IT professionals architect next-generation systems that can increase application performance while simultaneously reducing data center energy consumption significantly.

WHEN:

Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. PT (Special Plenary Session on Green Flash)

Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 2:40 – 5:30 p.m. PT (Flash in Enterprise Storage Systems: EFDs and Application Performance)

WHERE:

Flash Memory Summit (http://www.flashmemorysummit.com/): Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Directions to Santa Clara Convention Center

WHY:

To educate storage system developers and IT professionals on designing future enterprise IT systems to take full advantage of the significant performance, efficiency gains and energy/power consumption of Enterprise Flash technologies.

Pliant Technology (www.plianttechnology.com) develops Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs), a new class of ultra-high performance, energy-efficient solid state data storage drives that meet the demanding performance and reliability needs of data centers and other high performance computing environments.

CONTACT:

Sara Lee

Walt & Company

408.369.7200 x2980

[email protected]