STEC and Infortrend have entered into strategic alliance to integrate STEC’s SSD technology into Infortrend’s enterprise scalable virtualised architecture (ESVA) F60 storage offerings.

The company said that by combining STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSD’s with Infortrend’s F60 Fibre Channel (FC) to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage systems enables users to attain reliable performance for their applications.

The integration of STEC’s ZeusIOPS SAS SSD into the ESVA F60-2830 effectively broadens the ESVA’s performance offering; and ZeusIOPS SSDs provide interface options, spanning Fibre Channel to SAS, and capacity options, from 73GB to 800GB.

James Hsieh, vice president of global marketing at Infortrend, said: "STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSDs were selected for incorporation into our ESVA systems based on their unique performance attributes.

"Collaboration with a proven industry-leader such as STEC to boost the storage system performance allows us to offer our customers meaningful improvements in how they store and access data in their SAN networks."

The Infortrend ESVA series is designed to support SAN. The ESVA SAN provides mid-range enterprises optimise returns on investment, simplify storage infrastructure, and maximise application productivity.