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Posted on July 15, 2014

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Violin Windows Flash Array Transforming Windows Environments

Accelerating Business with Violin Flash Arrays

Violin Windows Flash Array Transforming Windows Environments

Violin transforms the speed of business with high performance, always available, low cost delivery of critical business information and applications. Violin award winning

All Flash optimised solutions accelerate breakthrough CAPEX and OPEX savings for building the next generation data centre. Violin’s Flash Fabric Architecture™ (FFA) speeds data delivery with chip-to-chassis performance optimisation that achieves lower consistent latency and cost per transaction for Cloud, Enterprise and Virtualised mission-critical applications. Violin’s All Flash Arrays and Appliances, and enterprise data management software solutions enhance agility and mobility while revolutionising data centre economics.

Proven Customer Results with Flash Solutions

Customer-Proven Benefits, Tangible Results

Violin All Flash Array Redefining High Performance Storage

Redefining High Performance Storage Solutions

Violin All Flash Array Redefining High Performance Storage

Violin delivers real-world benefits to customers, providing a powerful return on investments by delivering reduced total cost of ownership, while creating a competitive advantage through application acceleration. These are a few of the things that our customers are saying about Violin:

  • ROI achieved in 11 months; reduced nightly report times by 3X for Oracle
    E-Business Suite – BlueScope
  • $400,000 savings in operational costs – UC Davis
  • $1.2M savings on legal fees and $775,000 savings in CAPEX –  Gilead
  • $500,000 in savings with an accelerated storage platform – Sony Entertainment

Customers

Violin Maestro All Flash Caching Leverage Existing FC SAN Data Center with All Flash Array

Enhancing Data Centers with Flash Caching

Violin Maestro All Flash Caching Leverage Existing FC SAN Data Center with All Flash Array

37 out of the Fortune 500 leaders run their applications on the Violin All Flash array platform. Customers include more than 350 companies in financial services, telecom, media and entertainment, healthcare, government, Internet and manufacturing.

Industry Partnerships Driving Flash Adoption

Strategic Partnerships to Enable Industry-Wide Adoption

Violin has forged a unique alliance with Toshiba to set the price/performance bar for flash storage, and enable mass adoption of solid-state storage technology in the data centre. In addition, Violin works closely with leading technology providers to ensure seamless interoperability and ease of administration. Violin All Flash Arrays have been used to set transactional and virtualisation workload performance records by VMware, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Fujitsu, HP and IBM. Other sample partners include Citrix, Splunk, Mellanox,
Emulex and Brocade.

Violin at a glance

Founded

  • 2005

NYSE Listed: VMEM

Employees

  • 350

Headquarters

  • Santa Clara, California
  • Offices in Beijing, London, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney,
    and Tokyo

Transforming the Data Centre

  • Up to 10X application acceleration
  • Up to 80% lower power, space and cooling costs
  • Up to 70% lower software costs
  • Higher application performance
  • Higher virtualisation density

Key Takeaways

  • Violin’s Flash Fabric Architecture (FFA) delivers ultra‑low, consistent latency and high performance by combining thousands of flash dies into intelligent modules.
  • Strategic partnership with Toshiba ensures flash memory supply stability and integration for superior enterprise storage solutions.
  • Violin’s custom all‑flash arrays (6000 and FSP series) offer significant CapEx and OpEx savings through performance, density, and reduced power/cooling costs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Flash Fabric Architecture (FFA) and why does it matter?
FFA is Violin’s proprietary architecture combining flash dies into Violin Intelligent Memory Modules (VIMMs) with mesh switching and vRAID, delivering microsecond‑level, consistent latency and high reliability across enterprise workloads.
How does the Toshiba partnership benefit Violin systems?
Toshiba provides strategic flash memory supply and roadmap collaboration, ensuring Violin arrays have stable access to optimized NAND chips for performance and cost efficiency.
What are Violin’s main product series and their use cases?
Violin’s 6000 Series and Flash Storage Platform (FSP)/7000 Series deliver ultra‑fast, low‑latency storage ideal for ERP, cloud, virtualization, real‑time analytics and mission‑critical applications.

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