SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEC), a leading global provider of solid-state drive (SSD) technologies and products, today announced that Swapna Yasarapu, director of SSD product marketing for STEC, will serve as chairperson of a session on reducing power usage in data centers at this week's 2012 Server Design Summit in Santa Clara, California.
Yasarapu will lead a session at 8:30 a.m. on November 28, detailing the best approaches to energy reduction in servers and data centers. The session, titled "Reducing Data Center Power Usage," features paper presentations by representatives from FieldView Solutions, Micron Technology, the HyperTransport Consortium, and Flextronics, offering fresh insights to data center power conservation.
"The Server Design Summit has become a must-attend event for anyone in the server market, and I've been fortunate enough to participate in the event since its inception in 2010," said Yasarapu. "I am excited to be leading a discussion this year on the importance of reducing server energy consumption in data centers."
At STEC, Yasarapu is responsible for advancing STEC's SSD product families, which deliver enterprise-class solid-state storage solutions to customers worldwide. Yasarapu is a member of the Server Design Summit's Conference Advisory Board, served as conference chairperson of the 2011 event and chaired the 2010 summit's workshop on increasing server performance.
STEC offers a complete line of enterprise-class SSDs for a wide range of servers used in data centers and other environments that require fast and reliable data access. STEC was the first company to champion SSDs in the enterprise, leveraging its high-capacity and high-performance SAS, SATA, and PCI Express solutions for that rapidly expanding market segment.
STEC Session
Session: A-201 (Energy Track): "Reducing Data Center Power Usage"
Chairperson: Swapna Yasarapu, Director of SSD Product Marketing, STEC
Paper presenters:
- Data Center Cost Savings: Not a Myth, Sev Onyshkevych, CMO, FieldView Solutions
- Improve Server Performance and Lower Power, Jim Cooke, Enterprise Segment Manager, Micron Technology
- Cluster Power Efficiency – Myth vs. Reality, Mario Cavalli, General Manager, HyperTransport Consortium
- Future of Data Center Solutions: Evolution of the Rack as the Serving Appliance, David Kassel, Director Product Marketing and Strategy, and Shally Deva, Director Architecture, Flextronics
Date: Wednesday, November 28
Time: 8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
Location: Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, California.
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About Server Design Summit:
The Server Design Summit is the only event focused entirely on the $40 billion server market, featuring tutorials, technical sessions, panel discussions, workshops, keynotes, and exhibits. The conference sessions include key emerging topics such as virtualization and consolidation, cloud computing, green design and energy saving methods, solid-state drives, open specifications and standards, blade and appliance servers, high-performance servers, power and cooling, and low-latency and high-availability applications.
About STEC, Inc.
STEC, Inc. is a leading global provider of enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD) technologies and solutions tailored to meet the high-performance, high-reliability and high-endurance needs of today's data-intensive server and storage platforms. With headquarters in Santa Ana, California, and locations worldwide, STEC leverages almost two decades of solid-state knowledge and experience to design, manufacture and deliver the most comprehensive line of PCIe, SAS, SATA, and embedded SSDs on the market today. In addition, STEC's EnhanceIO™ SSD Cache Software enables IT managers to cost-effectively scale server application performance. For more information, please visit www.stec-inc.com.
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