Netlist and Nyriad Enter Co-Marketing Partnership To Unlock the Power of Today's Most Demanding Storage Applications

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. NLST today announced a co-marketing partnership with Nyriad to enhance its products using Nyriad's software and unlock the power of today's most demanding applications.

Netlist and Nyriad have collaborated to advance GPU-accelerated storage to create high performance systems that achieve levels of data resilience, integrity and availability not possible with traditional central processing unit (CPU) or redundant array of independent disks (RAID)-based solutions.

Under the co-marketing agreement, Netlist and Nyriad will coordinate on the following initiatives: marketing activities; compatibility, benchmarking and performance testing; engineering support; and will actively market their products to their respective customer base as preferred suppliers.

C.K. Hong, Netlist Chief Executive Officer, said, "We started working with Nyriad more than a year ago and today's announcement highlights the continued development and success of that relationship.  Nyriad is a leader in advanced data storage solutions and when combined with Netlist's memory solutions, can deliver substantial performance benefits at minimal cost, to end user applications across the rapidly growing big data and high-performance computing market place."

Nyriad Chief Executive Officer, Matthew Simmons said, "We have a strong working relationship with Netlist and the collaboration will allow us to improve the performance of storage solutions, while advancing the value of Netlist's non-volatile products."

About Netlist
Netlist provides high-performance SSDs and modular memory subsystems to enterprise customers in diverse industries. Flagship products NVvault® and EXPRESSvault™ enable customers to accelerate data in their servers and storage and reliably protect enterprise-level cache, metadata and log data in the event of a system failure or power outage. 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 and provides 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, many seminal, in the areas of hybrid memory, storage class memory, rank multiplication and load reduction. To learn more, visit www.netlist.com.

About Nyriad
Nyriad is pioneering the use of GPU-accelerated storage to deliver next-generation data fabric solutions for big data and high performance computing. Nyriad developed GPU-accelerated storage technology for the Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest computing project. The technology is now available from selected distribution partners. Contact partnerships@nyriad.com if you are interested in being a distribution or marketing partner. For more information, visit nyriad.com.

Safe Harbor Statement
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For more information, please contact:

The Plunkett Group
Mike Smargiassi/Sharon Oh
NLST@theplunkettgroup.com
(212) 739-6729

SOURCE Netlist, Inc.