Pliant Technology Co-Founder Aaron Olbrich to Present at Server Design Summit on December 1 in Santa Clara, CA

Presentation to Discuss Benefits of Integrating Enterprise Flash Drives Into the Cloud Computing Server Market

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Nov 22, 2010, 08:16 ET

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --

WHO: Pliant Technology Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aaron Olbrich

WHAT: The fast growing cloud computing market will yield significant new revenue opportunities for innovative server developers. IDC estimates that server revenue for the private cloud market will skyrocket from $7.3 billion in 2009 to $11.8 billion by 2014. One technology that will play a major role in a large portion of the future cloud server market is enterprise-class solid state storage technology. Olbrich's presentation, "Optimizing the IT/Server Ecosystem for Cloud Computing" will discuss the deployment of solid state drives (SSDs) in cloud computing-optimized systems, and will provide best practices to help server/storage system developers architect future systems to take full advantage of these new technologies for the cloud.

WHEN: Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, 2:15 – 4:15 p.m. PT (Track 4 – EcoSystem Issues)

WHERE: Server Design Summit (http://www.serverdesignsummit.com/): Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054

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WHY: To discuss and explore some of the challenges server system developers and IT professionals are facing in the fast growing cloud computing market, and how to take full advantage of the significant performance, efficiency gains and energy/power consumption of Enterprise Flash Drives.

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.