Virident Systems announced a new partnership with Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation (SCS), a leading provider of solutions and services to the Japanese enterprise and high-performance computing (HPC) market. In partnering with SCS, Virident will leverage the Tokyo-based firm's expertise in the Japanese enterprise market and gain a local provider of enterprise-class systems.

The relationship is evidence of Virident's increasing demand worldwide and SCS' commitment to the Japanese market. It is also part of Virident's global corporate strategy in making reliable and scalable SSD storage for enterprise-wide deployment a viable and desirable option.

"We are extremely pleased to be partnering with a leader such as SCS in this market," said Jan Silverman, vice president and general manager of Virident. "The Japanese market is extremely strategic for us and we will continue growing our investment here. SCS' understanding of Japanese enterprises and HPC markets will be a critical part of our success in this exploding market."

Virident's tachIOn delivers a decisive advantage to customers across several important requirements: rated usable capacity without the need to reserve additional memory to cater to heavy write workloads; sustained performance (2-10x for random access patterns); low power; compact form factor; field upgradability; multi-year durability; and lower total cost of ownership.

"This partnership was formed in response to demand for Virident's tachIOn SSD solution in Japan where predictable, sustained performance and enterprise-class reliability are critical factors to success making it the ideal solution for the Japanese mission critical enterprises," said Naoki Ike, General Manager, IT Engineering Unit of Sumisho Computer Systems. "tachIOn is the densest, high performance PCIe SSD in the market. The compact size takes only a single slot in a 1U or 2U servers thus maximizes configuration flexibility and system density. We are exciting about Virident and tachIOn."