Violin Showcased All-Flash Cluster-in-a-Box Platform

Violin Memory, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation were showcasing at Microsoft TechEd an all-flash Cluster-in-a-Box Solution with Windows Server 2012 running natively on the Violin 6000 platform.

With increased demands placed on today’s IT departments to meet end user needs for data in near real-time the release of Windows Server 2012 is a welcome relief for the enterprise customer. Using Violin Memory Arrays, Windows Server 2012 can scale to address the needs of the largest and most demanding enterprise IT departments.

IT departments in data intensive markets like government, financial, Web and media, are challenged with delivering business critical data to end users anywhere and anytime. Infrastructure consolidation and private cloud deployments have enabled IT departments to address some of these challenges. However as more applications move to hosted or virtualized model, disk-based tier-1 storage simply cannot scale performance to maximize the value of solutions like Windows Server 2012. The Cluster-in-a-Box solution from Violin and Microsoft eases the transition to a more service-oriented infrastructure that delivers performance, efficiency and reliability.

"We are thrilled to collaborate with Microsoft to showcase the power of Windows Server 2012 on Violin flash Memory Arrays," said Don Basile, CEO of Violin Memory. "The 6000 platform delivers some of the highest levels of performance, reliability and efficiency to meet the needs of the most demanding enterprise IT environments. Windows Cluster-in-a-box is the foundation for a set of solutions such as continuously available file server, database-in-a-box and virtual private cloud-in-a-box."

"We’re excited to see companies such as Violin Memory demonstrate their capabilities with a Cluster-in-a-Box solution on Windows Server 2012 at the Microsoft Partner Pavilion at Microsoft TechEd in Orlando this week," said Thomas Pfenning, GM of Microsoft Windows File Server Foundation.

According to Joseph Unsworth, research VP at Gartner, "The performance challenges of spinning disk are well known and have paved the way for flash based Arrays to challenge current tier 1 storage incumbents. Systems that marry compelling hardware and savvy software by delivering enterprise reliability, efficiency and performance required for the next generation of ‘flash aware’ software will be critical for enterprises to fully exploit their investments."

Violin’s flash Memory Arrays are changing the data center for companies like AOL, Revlon, DataQuick, Tagged.com, Juniper and HP through its patented flash vRAID technology.