Violin Memory®, Inc., (NYSE: VMEM) a global pioneer of award-winning all flash storage platform solutions for primary storage and active workloads, today announced the successful deployment of a new Violin 7300 Flash Storage Platform (FSP) in the data center of the San Francisco 49ers.

“As business needs grow, and the value of data increases, organizations everywhere are experiencing explosive data growth,” said Amy Love, CMO, at Violin Memory. “The San Francisco 49ers are a progressive organization. They see the value of optimizing and protecting digital assets as they strive to meet business objectives and to deliver the best possible fan experiences. Violin’s 7300 FSP meets the 49ers high availability, reliability, and performance requirements while providing a complete suite of data protection features,” Love added.

“The Violin 7300 FSP is helping us consolidate from two at-capacity Violin 6232 All Flash Arrays to a single Flash Storage Platform,” said Ethan Casson, chief revenue officer for the San Francisco 49ers. “It gives us faster, more reliable access to the data we need to run the business operations and provide the best possible fan experience.”

Violin Professional Services handled the installation and is managing the data migration.

The Violin Memory 7300 FSP is installed in the team’s data center at Levi’s® Stadium, recognized among the most technologically advanced sports facilities in the world.

“We built Levi’s® Stadium on three pillars, technology, sustainability and the fan experience, just as Violin has built its FSP on the pillars of availability, reliability and performance, with the most complete set of data protection services available on any flash storage platform today,” Casson said. “We also appreciate the support and guidance we have experienced working with Violin’s Professional Services team during the deployment of the 7300 FSP.”

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 Levi’s® Stadium

Named Sports Facility of the Year by Sports Business Journal, Levi’s® Stadium is home to the San Francisco 49ers and serves as the world’s most technologically advanced and sustainable sports and entertainment venue. The $1.2 billion venue consists of 1.85 million square feet and 68,500 seats, including 174 luxury suites and 9,000 club seats, and was designed by HNTB and built by Turner/Devcon for the Santa Clara Stadium Authority. It is a multi-purpose facility with flexibility that has allowed it to host a wide range of events – including domestic and international soccer, college football, ice hockey, motocross, concerts and various civic events – since opening in 2014. The venue is also expandable for major events such as WrestleMania 31 and the upcoming Super Bowl 50. Levi's® Stadium is owned by the Santa Clara Stadium Authority, a public joint powers authority established to provide for development and operation of Levi's® Stadium to ensure that the stadium serves the goals of the City of Santa Clara. For more information, go to www.LevisStadium.com.

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

This public announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the potential benefits that customers and others may realize as the result of using Violin Memory’s products and services, the performance and capabilities of Violin Memory’s products and services, and Violin Memory’s business plans and strategy. There are a significant number of risks and uncertainties that could affect Violin Memory's business performance and financial results, including those set forth under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," in Violin Memory's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and which is available on the Violin Memory's investor relations website at investor.violin-memory.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements in this public announcement are based on information available to Violin Memory as of the date hereof, and Violin Memory does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.

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