Violin Memory®, Inc., (NYSE: VMEM) a global pioneer of award-winning all flash storage platform solutions for primary storage and active workloads, today announced its Flash Storage Platform™ (FSP) solutions have been selected by five prominent customers, all listed on the Fortune Global 500, an annual ranking of the top 500 companies worldwide as measured by revenue. During the last two quarters since its introduction, FSP adoption has gained momentum with nine of the growing customer base being ranked on the Fortune Global 500 or Fortune 1000 lists.

With complex requirements and increasing demands for high levels of performance, resilience, support, and economic return, these newest Fortune Global 500 customers have deployed Violin’s Flash Storage Platform in their data center environments to greatly reduce the complexity and cost of managing data center workloads. Below are three examples of these deployments.

  • A global leader in manufacturing chose the Violin 7300 FSP to deploy comprehensive business software applications in their enterprise to manage high volume data transactions. Leveraging the performance and functionality of the FSP 7300, the customer is taking advantage of the fully-featured FSP including snapshot and asynchronous replication for disaster recovery.
  • A leading worldwide networking provider selected Violin’s 7700 FSP to improve the efficiency of their operations by creating a virtual build environment that would reduce the time to market for new products and reduce costs. To protect their valuable data, the customer created a nested business continuance approach that included stretch clusters for local protection, and asynchronous replication for protecting data for sites 1,000 miles apart.
  • A multi-national corporation with diversified products and services that include information technology and communications equipment and systems, electronic components, and more, has implemented the full Concerto OS 7 suite of software on the Violin 7300 FSP to support their operations.

“Originally, large enterprises leveraged flash storage primarily for high value database and transaction system applications,” said Kevin DeNuccio, chief executive officer, Violin Memory. “However, with the introduction of Violin’s Flash Storage Platform, visionary brands across all industries can now realize the broader benefits of moving and consolidating all of their workloads and applications to a single tier of flash-based primary storage and transform their data center in terms of simplicity, performance and cost.”

Violin FSP optimized solutions transform the speed of business, combining a wide variety of comprehensive enterprise class data services that encompass data protection, storage efficiency and business continuity with performance and density under a dual-everything Flash Fabric Architecture™. Leading brands can integrate Violin’s optimized FSP technologies to lower the acquisition cost and total cost of ownership (TCO).

Want to learn more about the benefits of moving to all-flash storage?

IDC, one of the industry leading storage analyst firms, has detailed the business-level and financial justifications of moving to all flash arrays for all active primary workloads in a recent IDC White Paper,Why AFA Architecture Matters as Enterprises Pursue Dense Mixed Workload Consolidation, sponsored by Violin Memory and written by Mr. Eric Burgener, Research Director for IDC’s Storage Practice.

About Violin Memory

Business in a Flash. Violin Memory, the industry pioneer in All Flash Arrays, is the agile innovator, transforming the speed of business with enterprise-grade data services software on its leadership Flash Storage Platforms™. Violin Concerto™ OS 7 delivers complete data protection and data reduction services and consistent high performance in a storage operating system fully integrated with Violin’s patented Flash Fabric Architecture™ for cloud, enterprise and virtualized business and mission-critical storage applications. Violin Flash Storage Platforms are designed for primary storage applications at costs below traditional hard disk arrays and accelerate breakthrough CAPEX and OPEX savings while helping customers build the next generation data center. Violin Flash Storage Platforms and All Flash Arrays enhance business agility while revolutionizing data center economics. Founded in 2005, Violin Memory is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Visit Violin Memory at www.violin-memory.com and follow us @twitter.com/violinmemory

Violin Memory Forward-looking Statement

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