STEC to Demonstrate the Performance Benefits of Its PCI Express-Based Solid-State Drive in Oracle Database Environments

STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEC), a leading global provider of solid-state storage solutions, will demonstrate at COLLABORATE 13 how IT professionals can achieve significantly enhanced performance in Oracle databases with the PCI Express (PCIe)-based STEC™ s1120 PCIe Accelerator. The demonstration, at this premier conference for the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), will feature a comparison of the s1120 solid-state drive (SSD) used with Oracle's Read-Preferred Mirror and without Read-Preferred Mirror.

What:  Demonstration of performance benefits of the STEC s1120 PCIe Accelerator with Oracle databases

Where:  Booth #707, Collaborate 13, Colorado Convention Center, Denver

When:  April 8-10, 2013

About STEC, Inc.

STEC, Inc. is a leading global provider of enterprise-class, solid-state storage solutions designed for the ever-growing performance, reliability and endurance requirements of today's advanced data centers. The industry's first company to deploy solid-state drives (SSDs) into large-scale enterprise environments, STEC offers the industry's widest range of solid-state storage solutions, which protect critical information for major business and government organizations worldwide. Headquartered in Santa Ana, California, STEC also serves the embedded and military/aerospace markets with SSDs for industrial and rugged environments. For more information, visit www.stec-inc.com.

STEC and the STEC logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of STEC, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks or brand names referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including those statements concerning the benefits and performance of STEC's s1120 PCIe Accelerator running Oracle databases. 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 cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from current expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in forward-looking statements are detailed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, made from time to time by STEC, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and its subsequent Current Reports on Form 8-K, which are available on the Investor Relations section of STEC's website at www.stec-inc.com. The information contained in this press release is a statement of STEC's present intentions, beliefs or expectations. STEC may change its intentions, beliefs or expectations, at any time and without notice, based upon any changes in such factors, from STEC's assumptions and otherwise. Except as required by law, STEC undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date thereof, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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