STEC ZeusIOPS SSD Optimizes Performance and Efficiency in Compellent's Storage Area...

STEC ZeusIOPS SSD Optimizes Performance and Efficiency in Compellent's Storage
Area Network (SAN)

SANTA ANA, Calif., July 7, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEC)
today announced that STEC's Enterprise-class ZeusIOPS Solid State Drives (SSDs)
are now integrated and shipping into the new release of Compellent's Storage
Area Network (SAN), enabling a new level of performance that can be easily
managed like traditional drives in virtualized, automated environments.

Utilized in an automated tiered storage configuration, Compellent's
virtualization software, Data Progression, enables customers to use SSDs for
active data and automatically migrate inactive data to lower cost drives. This
allows customers to optimize their storage system infrastructure and deploy SSDs
at a reduced cost.

"Particularly with today's economic backdrop, customers are looking to increase
performance while reducing IT infrastructure costs," said Bruce Kornfeld, Vice
President of Marketing, of Compellent. "By combining STEC's SSD and Compellent's
patented software, we are able to better leverage the benefits of SSDs and allow
our customers to achieve Enterprise-level performance at a lower overall cost."

"Through extensive Enterprise-level design and product expertise, coupled with
our integration activities with Compellent, we believe we've delivered a unique
solution to Compellent and its end-users," said Manouch Moshayedi, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of STEC. "As our customers become more aware of the
benefits of using SSDs in their systems, we are seeing new and diverse
applications arise for our products. We are glad that by integrating our SSDs
into these systems we were able to bring exceptional value to Compellent's
customers."

The ZeusIOPS SSD product family offers a comprehensive array of options for
Enterprise-system architects. ZeusIOPS SSD provides a wide range of interface
options, spanning Fibre Channel to SAS to SATA, as well as the widest range of
capacity options, from 73GB to 1TB. Fundamental to the ZeusIOPS product family
is the proprietary SSD architecture, which renders an Enterprise-optimized
storage device with an unprecedented combination of performance and energy
efficiency.

For more information regarding this announcement and other important SSD topics,
please visit the company's web site at www.stec-inc.com/ssd/technology.

About STEC

STEC, Inc., with headquarters in Santa Ana, California and offices around the
globe, designs, manufactures and markets high performance storage solutions. The
Company's product portfolio includes the industry's broadest SSD offerings. For
more information, visit the company's web site at
http://www.stec-inc.com/ssd/technology.

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Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties, including, but not limited to, statements concerning:
specifications and performance attributes of our SSD products, including the
ZeusIOPS products, Compellent's Storage Area Network (SAN) and Compellent's Data
Progression; expected performance and benefits of Compellent's SAN combined with
ZeusIOPS SSD; offering the industry's broadest range of SSDs, and STEC's design
and product expertise coupled with integration activities delivering a unique
solution to Compellent and its customers. Such forward-looking statements are
based on current expectations and involve inherent risks and uncertainties,
including factors that could delay, divert or change any of them, and could
cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from current
expectations. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements are
detailed under "Risk Factors" in filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission made from time to time by STEC, including its Annual Report on Form
10-K, its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and its current reports on Form 8-K.
The information contained in this press release is a statement of STEC's present
intention, belief or expectation. STEC may change its intention, belief or
expectation, at any time and without notice, based upon any changes in such
factors, in STEC's assumptions or otherwise. STEC undertakes no obligation to
release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect
events or circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to reflect the
occurrence of unanticipated events.

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CONTACT: STEC, Inc.
Mitch Gellman, Vice President of Investor Relations
(949) 260-8328
ir@stec-inc.com