Violin Certified With IBM SVC

Violin Memory, Inc. announced
that IBM System storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) V6.3.0 supports Violin 3000
Series flash Memory Arrays.

With the transition to silicon storage well
underway, enterprise customers can take advantage of IBM’s virtualization and
storage management to deploy flash Memory Arrays in the
data center. SVC provides heterogeneous support for multiple storage vendors
and media types with centralized management, enabling Memory Arrays to be used
in production environments with migration of applications.
Additionally, SVC offers data management tools such as
FlashCopy, Easy Tier, live migration and replication that work
with Violin arrays.

"The adoption of solid state primary storage
is gaining momentum, and it’s clear that large enterprises are actively seeking
out solutions that remove any friction with moving from the disk era to the
memory era," said George Crump, lead analyst at storage Switzerland.
"IBM understands that the explosive
growth of data and the ongoing march to the fully virtualized data center is
stretching current IT capabilities. SVC provides a stable way to manage the
evolution of data storage and reduce the risk of new technology adoption while
crossing the bridge to the future."

Violin’s
flash Memory Arrays are suitable for data intensive
applications including databases, business intelligence, analytics and
virtualized environments. They are attached to the network using standard
protocols and provide performance shared storage. The scale-out
architecture of SVC allows customers to take advantage of the high IOPS
and sub-millisecond latency performance of Violin arrays.

The
combination of IBM scale-out and Violin flash Memory Arrays was demonstrated
this July. Using Violin arrays, IBM shattered the previous General Parallel
File System (GPFS) performance record by 37 times, scanning 10 billion files in
43 minutes.

"The combination of IBM’s best-of-breed data
management and Violin’s industry leading performance is just what data center
managers have been asking for," said Jonathan Goldick, CTO of software
at Violin Memory. "IBM has
specifically designed a highly scalable solution so customers don’t have to
sacrifice the unique performance of flash Memory Arrays to gain comprehensive
data management."

IBM announced
SVC V6.3.0 on October 11, 2011.