Media Advisory: SMART Modular and Xockets to Debut StreamSwitch(TM) at Strata + Hadoop World 2015

NEWARK, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 28, 2015) -

Who:  
SMART Modular Technologies, Inc., a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of specialty memory and storage solutions, including memory modules, flash memory cards and other memory and solid state storage products.

Xockets, Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up focused on transforming the performance, cost and scale-out of enterprise and hyper-scale applications.

What:
SMART and Xockets will showcase StreamSwitch, by Xockets, a 1U network appliance that transforms Big Data execution architecture for next generation data centers. By embedding active application awareness and processing power inside the fabric of the network itself, StreamSwitch dramatically accelerates Big Data processing. This processing enhancement is implemented with no change to in-place software or middleware. The result: A 100x reduction in job latency, and lower TCO via more efficient server and network utilization.

When:  
September 29 - October 1, 2015.

Where:  
Strata + Hadoop World 2015, booth #661, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY. 

About SMART Modular Technologies
SMART Modular Technologies is a global leader in specialty memory solutions serving the electronics industry for over 25 years. SMART Modular delivers solutions to a broad customer base, including OEMs that compete in the computing, networking, communications, storage, mobile and industrial markets. Focused on providing extensive customer-specific design capabilities, technical support and value-added testing services, SMART collaborates closely with their global OEM customers throughout their design process and across multiple projects to create memory solutions for demanding applications with differentiated requirements. Taking innovations from the design stage through manufacturing and supply, SMART Modular has developed a comprehensive product line comprised of DRAM and Flash memory technologies across various form factors. SMART Modular is part of the SMART family of global companies. See www.smartm.com for more information.

About Xockets
At Xockets we believe that the massive needs of emerging enterprise-scale and hyper-scale applications cannot be addressed by simply revising and expanding today's switch and server infrastructure. Xockets' Active Application Network leverages the power of today's servers and networks, while revolutionizing application performance and TCO.

The Xockets team is comprised of world-class network and processing hardware engineers and award-winning software infrastructure architects. Xockets has partnered with SMART Modular -- the world's leading supplier of custom hardware -- to develop and release our first product -- the StreamSwitch.

Investors and advisors include Jerry Yang, Founding Partner, AME Cloud Ventures; Ashmeet Sidana, Founder and Managing Partner of Engineering Capital; and Greg Lavender, CTO Cloud Architecture at Citigroup. The company is based in Silicon Valley. See www.Xockets.com for more information.