Many applications in today’s data center are seek bound, disk bound or I/O bound. The CPUs are idle and the response time and user load cannot be improved without buying racks of disks. The dollars are literally disappearing through the air vents.

Due to the physics of rotational media, 15K rpm disks are the fastest available.  In addition to rotating the media (4ms), a disk head is moved to seek the data (2ms). The combination of disk seek time and rotational delay causes many applications to become “seek bound” with access delays greater than 5ms and IOPS per drive less than 250.

Violin memory appliances dramatically solve the seek-bound application performance problem. Access delays can be lowered and IOPS raised by 100 to 1000 times. Applications can benefit significantly with many being accelerated by 10 to 100 times. Violin is actively partnering with software developers in application areas that include:

Flash Memory Arrays will lower access delays from milliseconds to nanoseconds and increase IOPS from thousands to millions! Violin flash Memory Arrays enable the data center to be balanced between CPU and I/O, saving millions of dollars and ensuring users get the experience they want.