Pliant's SSDs Available Through Bell Microproducts

Bell Microproducts, a global value-added distributor of storage and computing technology, has signed a distribution agreement with Pliant Technology.

 

Bell Micro will market and distribute Pliant's full line of Lightning Enterprise Flash Drives, or “EFDs,” throughout North America.

 

According to Vice President of Marketing, Joe Cousins, solid state drive technology is increasingly being embraced by Bell Micro’s enterprise customers. Cousins said this adoption offers significant opportunity for Bell Micro and their customers, and their company is thus bringing their vast storage expertise to bear on the SSD space.

 

Bell Micro intends to leverage their expertise in serving this customer base and create a win-win situation by aligning the company with enterprise SSD storage suppliers like Pliant.

 

These high performance, high reliability storage drives from Pliant are ideal for data centers and other high-performance computing environments. Their innovative design ensures dramatic improvement in performance and reliability of SAS (News - Alert) storage and IT systems.

 

Company officials said that Pliant’s EFDs can also reduce cost, space requirements and energy consumption. They claim that lightning EFDs deliver the industry's highest sustained performance with the most predictable performance profile across a variety of read/write workloads.

 

Eric Shiroke, vice president of sales for Pliant, said they chose to partner with Bell Micro because of their enterprise storage expertise. They were also impressed by their focus on the opportunities for solid state storage to address the challenges facing today's enterprise IT storage OEMs, integrators and their customers.

 

Pliant Lightning EFD family has been specifically designed for demanding, mission-critical 24x7 applications. The products can easily integrate into Serial Attached SCSI, or “SAS,” based enterprise storage and server systems, and don’t require modifications to existing applications, operating systems or infrastructure.

 

"We are confident that our distribution partnership with Bell Micro will help us effectively and efficiently bring these innovative products to the enterprise storage market," Shiroke said.