Product category: Memory Devices and Modules
News Release from: M-Systems | Subject: SSDs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 November 2006
Solid state drives secure VPNs
Check Point Software Technologies is using M-Systems' solid state drives in continuous virtual private network system integration projects
Check Point Software Technologies has selected M-Systems' solid state drives (SSD) to provide the rugged and reliable data storage that Check Point's customers require for continuous VPN-1 (virtual private network) system integration projects. M-Systems' SSD is designed to operate reliably in demanding environments as required by the telecomms and industrial markets.
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'We are confident that M-Systems can provide our strategic customers with the superior ruggedness and reliability to ensure the continuous operation that their installations demand', said Dan Sarel, Director of Product Management at Check Point.
'We base this confidence on M-Systems' 10-year track record in providing field-tested SSDs targeted specifically at applications that must withstand environmental and operational extremes'.
As the need for storage capacity increases and the cost of NAND Flash drops, NAND Flash-based SSDs are being chosen to replace hard disk drives in an ever-widening range of markets.
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A nonvolatile data storage solution with no moving parts, SSD provides the ruggedness and reliability that mechanical hard disk drives fail to provide.
M-Systems SSDs operate reliably under challenging operational conditions such as high altitudes, and extreme humidity and temperatures.
M-Systems SSD has been field-tested to achieve an MTBF of more than 2 million hours as compared with up to 600 thousand hours delivered by hard disk drives.
This high MTBF rate is set to reduce maintenance time and associated costs.
'We are pleased to be singled out by Check Point as the Flash data storage provider of choice for their VPN-1 system integration projects, which stress high reliability specifications', said Erez Lev, General Manager of M-Systems, Europe.
'Check Point has a reputation of providing their enterprise customers with best-of-breed solutions which M-Systems SSD seamlessly complements'.
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