Expanded Flash Storage Platform From Violin Provides Needed Solutions for Customers Seeking Optimization for Extreme Performance; Primary Storage Solutions; and Entry Level Capacity

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - December 01, 2015) - 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 addition of the FSP 7600 and the FSP 7250 to its Flash Storage Platform™ (FSP) 7000 series. As enterprise customers continue to experience a vast range of performance and capacity demands to cope with the challenges of diverse enterprise workloads, Violin's newest FSP all-flash storage arrays address these challenges. The Violin FSP 7600, a high-density array is designed to deliver extreme performance to address the high end of the all-flash array market, and the Violin FSP 7250, is optimized with always on data reduction to provide an entry level point -- below $100,000 -- into all-flash storage.

With the FSP 7600, Violin demonstrates its industry leadership in high-performance arrays, offering extremely low latency and high I/O density, while setting a new industry bar for storage consolidation by delivering 140TB of raw flash in three rack units. Violin's FSP 7600 delivers 1.1 million IOPS under 500-microsecond latency, reducing the latency by half, as compared to current all flash arrays in the market, while simultaneously driving up its high I/O density. This allows customers to consolidate mixed and multiple workloads in the lowest footprint possible, outclassing all competitive products.With the FSP 7250, Violin makes it easier for customers to transition to flash with a lower entry price with the flexibility to scale in performance or capacity as their data center needs grow.

"Customers are struggling with the continual increase of enterprise applications and resulting workloads that demand a wide range of performance requirements," said Tim Stammers, senior analyst at 451 Research. "Customers approach 451 seeking guidance for all flash arrays available in the market that offer a range of performance from 100,000 to 1 million IOPS. With that wide range of demands, the cost to deliver the right level of performance for any workload is quickly coming into the spotlight. Violin's announcement today means customers will have a set of options to address these performance and capacity demands without compromising the flexibility to have an enterprise storage platform."