Netlist, Celestica, and Violin Collaborate to Showcase Enhanced Performance of Violin's New QV2020 NVMe Storage Platform at SuperComputing 2020

IRVINE, CA / ACCESSWIRE / November 11, 2020 / Netlist, Inc. (OTCQB:NLST) today announced that through a collaboration with Celestica and Violin, a StorCentric company, it will showcase its 3.84TB U.2 NVMe SSDs at the SuperComputing 2020 conference from November 9 to 19, 2020.

During the virtual conference, Celestica, Violin, and Netlist will showcase a fully loaded QV2020, the latest line in Violin's simple, fast, affordable high-performance NVMe storage platforms. The new high-performance storage platform features Celestica's Athena+^TM NVMe Platform coupled with Violin's QV2020 software-defined all flash storage solution, and Netlist's 3.84TB U.2 NVMe SSDs. Representatives will be available to discuss the solution through the Celestica SC20 conference booth throughout the conference.

"Netlist's NVMe SSDs are a perfect match for the low latency and high bandwidth requirements of Violin's QV2020 solution," said, Tinh Ngo, Vice President of Marketing, at Netlist. "The performance capabilities and affordability of NVMe based storage platforms are truly exceptional, meeting the needs of the most demanding workloads and an expanding set of enterprise applications."

"We are excited to partner with Netlist and Celestica to showcase the enhanced performance of our latest software-defined NVMe storage platform," said Bob Antoniazzi, Vice President, Product Management and Operations at Violin, a StorCentric company. "This fully integrated solution is populated with Netlist SSDs to deliver the high-performance required by today's most powerful compute and storage workloads."

"We are delighted to have Violin Systems and Netlist join our virtual booth at SC20," said Todd Beaudoin, Celestica's General Manager, Enterprise Hardware Platforms. "Celestica is committed to setting a new standard for high-performance enterprise storage with the most challenging application workloads. Our partnership with Violin and Netlist is advancing innovation and unlocking economic growth for our common customers. We are excited that Celestica's Athena hardware platform is the foundational platform for this unique solution."

About VIOLIN, a StorCentric Company
As the creator of the flash array storage industry, VIOLIN continues to innovate groundbreaking, high-performance technology solutions that serve the complex computing needs of the world's most demanding enterprises and public sector organizations. Customers worldwide realize that our ability to quickly move, manage and maintain information offers them a unique competitive advantage. Founded in 2005 and headquartered at the base of Pikes Peak, VIOLIN® is proud to call Colorado Springs, Colorado home. VIOLIN owns a large and compelling patent portfolio including more than 100 patents issued in the United States. Our strengths are speed, flexibility and people. Violin Memory is part of the StorCentric family of brands.

About Netlist
Netlist provides high-performance SSDs and modular memory subsystems to enterprise customers in diverse industries. The Company's NVMe™ SSD portfolio provides industry-leading performance offered in multiple capacities and form factors. HybriDIMM™, Netlist's next-generation storage class memory product, addresses the growing need for real-time analytics in Big Data applications, in-memory databases, high-performance computing and advanced data storage solutions. Netlist also manufactures a line of specialty and legacy memory products to storage customers, appliance customers, system builders and cloud and datacenter customers. Netlist holds a portfolio of patents in the areas of server memory, hybrid memory, storage class memory, rank multiplication and load reduction. To learn more, visit www.netlist.com.

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