Expanded Flash Storage Platform From Violin Provides Needed Solutions for Customers Seeking Optimization for Extreme Performance; Primary Storage Solutions; and Entry Level Capacity - Seite 2

The FSP 7600 and FSP 7250 are an extension of the Violin Flash Storage Platform 7000 series that addresses the needs of primary storage. The FSP series includes the existing FSP 7300, which offers up to 217 TB of effective capacity in three rack units, and the FSP 7700, a highly scalable, high-performance scale-up platform. With the addition of the FSP 7600 to the platform, customers will gain unparalleled performance and capacity scale - 2.2 million IOPS with less than one millisecond latency, and capacity scale up to 1.4PB of raw flash capacity in a single name space. The FSP 7000 platform series comes with industry-leading enterprise services such as asynchronous replication, synchronous mirroring, stretch clustering with zero RPO and zero RTO, snapshots, clones, and other services.

The FSP 7600 is available with between 35TB and 140TB raw capacity, and the FSP 7250 is available with a starting raw capacity as low as 8TB. Both arrays, as with other Violin FSP arrays, are offered with Violin's flexible "Pay As You Grow" capacity-based pricing model, which allows customers to align their storage investment with capacity as it is consumed without committing to future usage. The program provides two primary benefits: 1) customers can upgrade effective capacity nearly instantaneously and at any time through a simple process 2) activating new capacity is entirely non-disruptive, requiring no downtime and no interruption of daily operations.

Addressing Storage Challenges Across Markets

"As the pioneer in all flash arrays, Violin recognized that customers need flexibility and simplicity to transform both the performance of their applications, and the cost of their data center storage," said Kevin DeNuccio, CEO of Violin Memory. "Today, our Flash Storage Platform extends its lead to deploy a single platform architecture and operating system for all workloads or use cases. Violin's newest additions to the FSP series address key all-flash growth segments with varied solutions and options in extreme performance, primary storage and capacity optimization."

"As enterprises get increasingly sophisticated in pinpointing the specific storage and restore capabilities needed for their varying workloads, one thing is abundantly clear: vendors must orient their solution sets to specifically address a range of use cases," said Mark Peters, Practice Director & Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. "Furthermore, they should define a range of typical use cases and workload mixes that are common across multiple businesses and market segments. Because flash storage is effectively approaching – indeed sometimes already beating - the cost of disk storage, CIOs and CFOs will expect to see enterprise-class all-flash arrays with more attractive entry price points. That's why the announcement of Violin's portfolio expansion, which includes its sub-$100,000 7250 FSP, has the potential to expand the market opportunity for enterprise flash storage systems."