Violin Memory®, Inc., (NYSE:VMEM), a leading provider of award-winning all-flash storage arrays and appliances delivering application solutions for the enterprise, today announced the Concerto™ 7000 All Flash Array has been named a “Trend-Setting Product in Data and Information Management for 2015” by Database Trends and Applications Magazine. This recognition highlights cutting-edge products, services and platforms that arm organizations with tools to address rapidly changing market requirements and that represent a commitment to driving industry innovation.

The Concerto 7000 All Flash Array combines performance and density under a dual-everything Flash Fabric Architecture™ with comprehensive data protection, efficiency and business continuity services. With the Concerto 7000, users can access 500,000 IOPS at consistent sub-millisecond latencies, in addition to mirroring, synchronous replication, remote asynchronous replication, stretch metro cluster, continuous data protection, encryption for data in-flight, clones, snapshots, and thin provisioning and more.

“Database administrators are faced with the growing challenge to improve how their organizations manage and extract insight from today’s data-propelled environments,” said Eric Herzog, CMO and SVP Alliances at Violin Memory. “The Concerto 7000 provides a robust suite of enterprise-class data services that enables a new level of business intelligence with ultimate data protection and performance that enables new revenue opportunities, reduced total cost of ownership and unmatched return on investment – all at the cost of traditional storage.”

The complete list of Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2015 can be found here: http://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/Trend-Setting-Products-in-Data-and-Information-Management-for-2015-100626.aspx.

About Violin Memory

Business in a Flash. Violin Memory transforms the speed of business with high performance, always available, low cost management of critical business information and applications. Violin’s All Flash optimized solutions accelerate breakthrough CAPEX and OPEX savings for building the next generation data center. Violin’s Flash Fabric Architecture™ (FFA) speeds data delivery with chip-to-chassis performance optimization that achieves lower consistent latency and cost per transaction for Cloud, Enterprise and Virtualized mission-critical applications. Violin's All Flash Arrays and Appliances, and enterprise data management software solutions enhance agility and mobility while revolutionizing data center economics. Founded in 2005, Violin Memory is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit www.violin-memory.com. Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/violinmemory

Violin Memory Forward-looking Statement

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