OCZ Technology Announces Selection of Deneva Solid State Drives (SSDs) in PEER 1 Hosting’s Datacenters

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SAN JOSE, CA – July 19, 2011 – OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced that the OCZ Deneva SSD Series was qualified by PEER 1 Hosting for integration into their product offerings for Managed Hosting and Dedicated Servers (under the company’s ServerBeach brand). The Deneva Series delivers superior bandwidth, durability, and power efficiency over traditional hard drives along with enterprise-rich reliability features, enabling PEER 1 Hosting to provide an even more robust storage resource for their clients’ critical data warehouses.

“At PEER 1 Hosting, we enable our customers to focus on the possibilities of the Internet, and not the problems,” said Ron Bradburn, Director of Technology for PEER 1 Hosting. “The OCZ Deneva SSD Series has a great performance to cost ratio. This allows us to offer our customers a compelling alternative to slower mechanical drives and dramatically improves the performance of their server’s applications. The advanced features for data integrity on this drive help to increase reliability as well.”

“We are pleased that PEER 1 Hosting has chosen our Deneva SSDs to be deployed within their customizable hosting solutions,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group. “PEER 1 Hosting has a complete spectrum of hosting services and our Deneva Series delivers unprecedented speed, scalability, and reliability for their most compute-intensive applications.”

PEER 1 Hosting is one of the leading hosting providers worldwide, with a 10Gb FastFiber Network™ connected by 17 state-of-the-art datacenters across North American and Europe. These highly secure, redundant datacenters protect customer servers and web presence, and ensure they remain online and operational at all times. OCZ Deneva SSDs will be available as an upgradable option to PEER 1 Hosting customers and will include ECC recovery, power loss data protection, endurance, and superior transactional throughput to overcome the obstacles inherent in mechanical HDD storage.

As the demand for optimal data throughput and reliability broaden across various industries, the Deneva SSD Series is the ideal storage deployment option for customers looking to maximize data security and productivity for their online resources. OCZ continues to provide products that enhance performance and value across the range of storage service providers and IT environments.

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PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world’s leading IT hosting providers. The company is built on two obsessions: Ping & People. Ping, represents its commitment to best-in-breed technology, founded on a high performance 10Gb FastFiber Network™ connected by 17 state-of-the-art datacenters, 21 points-of-presence and 10 Colocation facilities throughout North America and Europe. People, represents its commitment to delivering outstanding customer service to its more than 10,000 customers worldwide, backed by a 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support™. PEER 1 Hosting’s portfolio includes Managed Hosting, Dedicated Servers under the ServerBeach brand, Colocation and Cloud Services. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with European operations headquartered in Southampton, UK. PEER 1 Hosting shares are traded on the TSX under the symbol PIX. For more information visit: www.peer1.com or www.peer1hosting.co.uk.