Industry’s First Client SSD Upgrade Service
Designed to Make Employee Laptop Renovations Friction-Free
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash
storage solutions, today announced its SanDisk Tech Assist Refresh
(STAR) program for the company’s X-series line of client SSDs. This
innovative service provides corporate CIOs and IT decision makers
with a hassle free solution for upgrading their fleet of employee
laptops from slower hard disk drives to higher performance, lower
power and more reliable SSDs. Through the STAR program, SanDisk
relieves IT departments of having to manage all aspects of
upgrading corporate laptops such as, endpoint inventory analysis,
employee service scheduling, system upgrades, data migration, daily
progress reporting, post-upgrade analysis and support.
“At SanDisk we’re keenly focused on being a trusted advisor to
CIOs and IT decision makers in order to help address their key pain
points—security, system reliability, employee productivity, and
capex,” said Tarun Loomba, vice president of marketing, client
storage solutions at SanDisk. “Our X-series portfolio is designed
to address these pain points, and now with our STAR program, we can
go one step further by relieving CIOs from the cumbersome process
of migrating corporate information from existing HDD-based laptops
to our highly-reliable, performance enhancing X-series SSDs, and do
it for them in a timely, cost-effective manner.”
With today’s increasingly mobile, 24/7 workforce, the demand for
responsive computer applications is quickly expanding, which
requires a high-performing, power efficient and reliable laptop.
According to a survey conducted by IDC of mobile workers who owned
at least one PC or Mac computer, 40 percent of respondents are
interested in upgrading a PC within the next 12 months; 97 percent
of respondents identify the PC as their primary computing device;
and 83 percent believe it's more productive than a smartphone1.
Often, the bulk of a PC may be working, but over time, due to disk
utilization and software updates, the performance degrades to the
point where it impedes what employees need it to do. Worse yet, it
fails completely, often as a result of a mechanical disk drive
failure. Rather than replace the entire device, an upgrade to a
high-performance, highly reliable SSD allows companies to
supercharge that PC quickly and for a fraction of the cost.
SanDisk’s X-series SSDs are the perfect solution to extend the
life of a fleet of corporate desktops, laptops, and workstations.
With a corporate-wide, tech-assisted refresh, swapping out aging
mechanical hard drives for state-of-the art SanDisk SSDs is a
seamless, efficient process that has minimal impact on the
business. The new STAR program helps CIOs:
- Reduce Cost and Increase
Productivity—Replacing legacy HDDs with SSDs can contribute to
an annual cost savings of up to $608 per unit2 through an 18-month
PC lifecycle extension3, a 35 percent increase in employee
productivity2, an 86 percent reduction in IT Labor2, and a 15x
performance boost per system4.
- Decrease Risk—Data migration is
no simple task. When upgrading a fleet of corporate laptops, CIOs
must ensure they can transfer employees’ data safely, cost
effectively, and with reduced business disruption. The STAR program
helps CIOs and IT decision makers (ITDM) confidently and
efficiently move data where it needs to go.
- Limit Disruptions—SanDisk’s team
of skilled specialists and time-tested tools make the process of
migrating to an SSD efficient and friction-free, reducing
interruptions to business operations and application
availability.
“Employee frustration with our current systems was rising and we
knew we needed to do something. The STAR program was the perfect
fit for us. Not only did it come with SanDisk’s brand name,
reputation and leadership in the industry, but we were impressed by
the fact that SanDisk proposed a complete solution, as opposed to
selling a component,” said Carlos Gutierrez, vice president,
silicon systems and solutions, Lattice Semiconductor. “We didn’t
have to worry about the environment, the software, the upgrade, the
downtime, etc. and we were able to get a 50-60 percent performance
boost from the SSDs literally overnight, with very little overhead
from our IT team and very little impact on our productivity.”
To learn more about SanDisk’s new STAR services program, please
attend an informational session taking place at Interop New York on
Wednesday, October 1 at 11:30 a.m. ET in the Vendor Tech Room #1 on
the Expo Floor or visit SanDisk in booth #242 during the show,
taking place at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Additional
information on the program, as well as customer testimonial videos
from Lending Tree and Lattice Semiconductor, can be found at
http://www.sandisk.com/goto/ssd-upgrade-program/.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P
500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For
more than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of
storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have
transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality,
state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's
largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smart phones,
tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at
hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more
information, visit www.sandisk.com.
About Interop®
Interop® is the leading independent technology conference and
expo series designed to inform and inspire the world’s IT
community. Part of UBM Tech's family of global brands, Interop®
drives the adoption of technology, providing knowledge and insight
to help IT and corporate decision-makers achieve business success.
Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world
demonstrations and live technology implementations in its unique
InteropNet program, Interop provides the forum for the most
powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer.
Interop Las Vegas is the flagship event held each spring, with
Interop New York held each fall, with annual international events
in India, London and Tokyo, all produced by UBM Tech and partners.
For more information about these events, visit www.interop.com.
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and other countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for
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respective holder(s).
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including expectations for technology, product and service
introductions, technology and product capabilities, costs and
performance and markets that are based on our current expectations
and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these
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others: the market demand for our products or services may grow
more slowly than our expectations or our products or services may
not be available in the capacities that we expect, perform as
expected, or achieve the benefits expected, or the other risks
detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange
Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our
most recent annual report on Form 10-K. We do not intend to update
the information contained in this news release.
1 Survey by Intel and IDC, “Exploring our Digital Dependence,”
August 2013.
2 IDC: “The Total Cost of Ownership of a SSD-enabled PC” (July
2011).
3 Based on SanDisk internal estimates.
4SanDisk internal testing: PCMark Vantage, April 2013. Platform:
Intel H77-Intel® Core™ i7-37700 processor 3.4GHz, 8M, Ivy Bridge,
4GB non-ECC SDRAM, 1600MHz DDR3, Win 8 64-bit. Storage: SanDisk SSD
16GB, 128GB, Seagate HDD 5400.6 750GB, Hitachi HDD 7200 256GB.
SanDisk CorporationSiobhan Lyons,
408-801-2668siobhan.lyons@sandisk.com
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