sTec to Demonstrate Virtualization Solutions Enabled by Solid-State Storage @ VMworld

sTec, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEC), a leading global provider of solid-state storage solutions, today announced it will showcase its PCI Express (PCIe)-based solid-state drive (SSD) and all-flash SSD system delivering cost efficiencies and high performance in virtualized environments at next week's VMworld 2013 conference in San Francisco. The company will demonstrate its s1120 PCIe Accelerator in cost-effective caching applications and showcase the sTec® s3000 solid-state storage appliance enabling high throughput and low latency in virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs). Additionally, sTec will be presenting throughout the day (during the conference's exhibit hours) on SSDs and their critical role in virtualized environments.

What:	sTec demonstrations of its solid-state storage solutions in caching and VDI;
	presentation on range of SSD applications
Where:	Booth #705, VMworld 2013, Moscone Center, San Francisco
When:	August 26-28, 2013 (exhibit hours vary each day)

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, capabilities, performance, and cost savings of sTec's PCIe-based SSD, sTec's all-flash SSD system, and SSDs in general operating in virtualized environments. 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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