OCZ News -
OCZ Technology Partners With The Rombus Group to Deliver PCIe Flash-Based Storage to SME and Mid-Sized IT Environments in Ger...
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - April 30, 2013) - OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced that its PCI Express (PCIe) flash-based SSDs for enterprise and workstation applications are now qualified on specific Rombus Group platforms. This includes OCZ's Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD Series for Rombus Supermicro Tertia enterprise servers and OCZ's RevoDrive 3 SSD Series for Rombus Quinta workstations. These high-performance SSDs are available from The Rombus Group and targeted for small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and mid-sized IT environments in Germany.
The ability to achieve optimized VMware virtualization within the Supermicro Tertia platform was a priority for The Rombus Group in their selection of OCZ's Z-Drive R4 SSD Series. Each Z-Drive R4 card provides a compact, power-efficient solid-state solution that fits directly into the server's PCIe slot to increase application performance while delivering fast and reliable access to data without burdening host CPU and memory resources. The Z-Drive's Virtualized Controller Architecture™ (VCA) efficiently distributes the application loads between all available flash on the host-based SSD card resulting in optimal random data access performance within virtual server environments. With many SAN/storage infrastructures based on Fibre Channel/iSCSI deployments, the implementation of Z-Drive R4 cards within Supermicro Tertia servers enable new levels of I/O access and application performance while lowering IT operating costs when compared to conventional hard disk drives (HDDs).
To complement power users and multimedia designers in workstation environments, The Rombus Group now features OCZ's RevoDrive 3 SSD family to its Quinta workstation platform. The RevoDrive 3 SSD Series is designed for intensive workstation applications delivering incredible performance and a sophisticated feature-set also based on OCZ's proprietary VCA Technology. This single-card solution reduces the burden on host resources and is ideally suited for professional media development and management.
"We are very pleased that our partnership with The Rombus Group has resulted in qualifications of our PCIe offerings into their enterprise server and workstation platforms," said Wayne B. Eisenberg, Senior VP of Sales for OCZ Technology. "The Z-Drive R4 Series and RevoDrive 3 Series represent a turning point in the evolution of PCIe solid-state storage enabling ultra-fast I/O access and application performance, advanced durability and reliability, while slashing capital and operating costs."
The Z-Drive R4 Series is available in both full-height (FH) and half-height (HH) configurations. The FH form factor supports storage capacities from 800GB to 3.2TB and random write operations (4K blocks) up to 410,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS). The RevoDrive 3 is FH-compliant with storage capacities up to 480GB and random write operations (4K blocks) up to 130,000 IOPS.
For more information about Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSDs, select www.ocz.com/enterprise.
For more information about RevoDrive 3 PCIe SSDs, select www.ocz.com/consumer.
About The Rombus Group:
Founded in 1996, The Rombus Group is one of the leading German manufacturers of server, storage, notebook and PC systems. The group is headquartered in Westphalian B?ren (near Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport) and is a multi-channel distributor of its own product brands with focus on service, speed, flexibility and individual customer attention. The 'Rombus' brand of IT solutions is focused on efficient, high-performance server systems and blade technologies that are built 'to-order' providing the specifications, benefits and budget needs of its customers. The Rombus Group has a base of over 4,700 resellers with locations in B?ren (headquarters), Passau (Germany) and Taipei (Taiwan). For more information, select www.rombus.de.
About OCZ Technology Group, Inc.
Founded in 2002, San Jose, CA-based OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (OCZ) is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high-performance solid-state storage solutions and premium computer components. Offering a complete spectrum of solid-state drives (SSDs), OCZ provides SSDs in a variety of form factors and interfaces (i.e. PCIe, SAS and SATA) to address a wide range of client and enterprise applications. Having developed firmware and controller platforms, to virtualization and endurance extending technologies, the company delivers vertically integrated solutions enabling transformational approaches to how digital data is captured, stored, accessed, analyzed and leveraged by customers. For more information, please visit: www.ocz.com.
Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements in this release relate to future events and expectations and as such constitute forward-looking statements involving known and unknown factors that may cause actual results of OCZ Technology Group, Inc. to be different from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. In this context, words such as "will," "would," "expect," "anticipate," "should" or other similar words and phrases often identify forward-looking statements made on behalf of OCZ. It is important to note that actual results of OCZ may differ materially from those described or implied in such forward-looking statements based on a number of factors and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the risk that the process of preparing and auditing the financial statements or other subsequent events would require OCZ to make additional adjustments; the time and effort required to complete the restatement of the financial reports; the ramifications of OCZ's potential inability to timely file required reports; including potential delisting of OCZ's common stock on NASDAQ; the risk of litigation or governmental investigations or proceedings relating to such matters; market acceptance of OCZ's products and OCZ's ability to continually develop enhanced products; adverse changes both in the general macro-economic environment as well as in the industries OCZ serves, including computer manufacturing, traditional and online retailers, information storage, internet search and content providers and computer system integrators; OCZ's ability to efficiently manage material and inventory, including integrated circuit chip costs and freight costs; and OCZ's ability to generate cash from operations, secure external funding for its operations and manage its liquidity needs. Other general economic, business and financing conditions and factors are described in more detail in "Item 1A -- Risk Factors" in Part I in OCZ's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on May 14, 2012, and statements made in other subsequent filings. The filing is available both at www.sec.gov as well as via OCZ's website at www.ocz.com. OCZ does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.
All trademarks or brand names referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.
OCZ Press Contact:
Scott Harlin
Director of Marketing Communications
(408) 440-3484
sharlin@ocztechnology.com
OCZ Investor Relations Contact:
Bonnie Mott
Senior Manager of Investor Relations
(408) 440-3428
bmott@ocztechnology.com
OCZ Technology Partners With The Rombus Group to Deliver PCIe Flash-Based Storage to SME and Mid-Sized IT Environments in Ger...
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - April 30, 2013) - OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced that its PCI Express (PCIe) flash-based SSDs for enterprise and workstation applications are now qualified on specific Rombus Group platforms. This includes OCZ's Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD Series for Rombus Supermicro Tertia enterprise servers and OCZ's RevoDrive 3 SSD Series for Rombus Quinta workstations. These high-performance SSDs are available from The Rombus Group and targeted for small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and mid-sized IT environments in Germany.
The ability to achieve optimized VMware virtualization within the Supermicro Tertia platform was a priority for The Rombus Group in their selection of OCZ's Z-Drive R4 SSD Series. Each Z-Drive R4 card provides a compact, power-efficient solid-state solution that fits directly into the server's PCIe slot to increase application performance while delivering fast and reliable access to data without burdening host CPU and memory resources. The Z-Drive's Virtualized Controller Architecture™ (VCA) efficiently distributes the application loads between all available flash on the host-based SSD card resulting in optimal random data access performance within virtual server environments. With many SAN/storage infrastructures based on Fibre Channel/iSCSI deployments, the implementation of Z-Drive R4 cards within Supermicro Tertia servers enable new levels of I/O access and application performance while lowering IT operating costs when compared to conventional hard disk drives (HDDs).
To complement power users and multimedia designers in workstation environments, The Rombus Group now features OCZ's RevoDrive 3 SSD family to its Quinta workstation platform. The RevoDrive 3 SSD Series is designed for intensive workstation applications delivering incredible performance and a sophisticated feature-set also based on OCZ's proprietary VCA Technology. This single-card solution reduces the burden on host resources and is ideally suited for professional media development and management.
"We are very pleased that our partnership with The Rombus Group has resulted in qualifications of our PCIe offerings into their enterprise server and workstation platforms," said Wayne B. Eisenberg, Senior VP of Sales for OCZ Technology. "The Z-Drive R4 Series and RevoDrive 3 Series represent a turning point in the evolution of PCIe solid-state storage enabling ultra-fast I/O access and application performance, advanced durability and reliability, while slashing capital and operating costs."
The Z-Drive R4 Series is available in both full-height (FH) and half-height (HH) configurations. The FH form factor supports storage capacities from 800GB to 3.2TB and random write operations (4K blocks) up to 410,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS). The RevoDrive 3 is FH-compliant with storage capacities up to 480GB and random write operations (4K blocks) up to 130,000 IOPS.
For more information about Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSDs, select www.ocz.com/enterprise.
For more information about RevoDrive 3 PCIe SSDs, select www.ocz.com/consumer.
About The Rombus Group:
Founded in 1996, The Rombus Group is one of the leading German manufacturers of server, storage, notebook and PC systems. The group is headquartered in Westphalian B?ren (near Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport) and is a multi-channel distributor of its own product brands with focus on service, speed, flexibility and individual customer attention. The 'Rombus' brand of IT solutions is focused on efficient, high-performance server systems and blade technologies that are built 'to-order' providing the specifications, benefits and budget needs of its customers. The Rombus Group has a base of over 4,700 resellers with locations in B?ren (headquarters), Passau (Germany) and Taipei (Taiwan). For more information, select www.rombus.de.
About OCZ Technology Group, Inc.
Founded in 2002, San Jose, CA-based OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (OCZ) is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high-performance solid-state storage solutions and premium computer components. Offering a complete spectrum of solid-state drives (SSDs), OCZ provides SSDs in a variety of form factors and interfaces (i.e. PCIe, SAS and SATA) to address a wide range of client and enterprise applications. Having developed firmware and controller platforms, to virtualization and endurance extending technologies, the company delivers vertically integrated solutions enabling transformational approaches to how digital data is captured, stored, accessed, analyzed and leveraged by customers. For more information, please visit: www.ocz.com.
Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements in this release relate to future events and expectations and as such constitute forward-looking statements involving known and unknown factors that may cause actual results of OCZ Technology Group, Inc. to be different from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. In this context, words such as "will," "would," "expect," "anticipate," "should" or other similar words and phrases often identify forward-looking statements made on behalf of OCZ. It is important to note that actual results of OCZ may differ materially from those described or implied in such forward-looking statements based on a number of factors and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the risk that the process of preparing and auditing the financial statements or other subsequent events would require OCZ to make additional adjustments; the time and effort required to complete the restatement of the financial reports; the ramifications of OCZ's potential inability to timely file required reports; including potential delisting of OCZ's common stock on NASDAQ; the risk of litigation or governmental investigations or proceedings relating to such matters; market acceptance of OCZ's products and OCZ's ability to continually develop enhanced products; adverse changes both in the general macro-economic environment as well as in the industries OCZ serves, including computer manufacturing, traditional and online retailers, information storage, internet search and content providers and computer system integrators; OCZ's ability to efficiently manage material and inventory, including integrated circuit chip costs and freight costs; and OCZ's ability to generate cash from operations, secure external funding for its operations and manage its liquidity needs. Other general economic, business and financing conditions and factors are described in more detail in "Item 1A -- Risk Factors" in Part I in OCZ's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on May 14, 2012, and statements made in other subsequent filings. The filing is available both at www.sec.gov as well as via OCZ's website at www.ocz.com. OCZ does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.
All trademarks or brand names referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.
OCZ Press Contact:
Scott Harlin
Director of Marketing Communications
(408) 440-3484
sharlin@ocztechnology.com
OCZ Investor Relations Contact:
Bonnie Mott
Senior Manager of Investor Relations
(408) 440-3428
bmott@ocztechnology.com
