Violin Scalable Memory

Violin 1010 Memory Appliance Now Available!

Violin Memory has launched the industry's first terabyte-scale Memory Appliance, the Violin 1010. Memory Appliances are flexible and scalable memory systems that can be used as either Extended Memory or High Performance Storage.

The Violin 1010 connects to a server and provides almost 10 times the capacity of memory per rack and per Watt. A single rack of Violin 1010 can support 10 TByte of DRAM at less than 1W per GByte! The 90% power savings per GByte is important for the green data center.

The Violin 1010 is based on Violin Switched Memory (VXM) technology. VXM solves the key problems of scalable memory, including power efficiency and reliability. VXM also has in-built support for other memory types, including NAND Flash.

The applications that benefit are those that process large datasets such as image, video, web content or scientific data. Today, systems are built with performance-limiting disk arrays or power-inefficient clustered servers. The Violin 1010 provides a third alternative; place the dataset in very fast and dense Memory Appliances.

The Violin 1010 and the associated Violin Intelligent Memory Modules (VIMMs) are now available. A 120 GByte DRAM Starter Kit is available for less than $40K. Please contact Violin to test drive a system.