Mail and messaging systems are ubiquitous in the modern enterprise. Products such as Microsoft Exchange serve as the primary means for how businesses communicate. These solutions require fast, reliable access to storage in order to maximize operational efficiency and end-user productivity. As the number of users, volume of email, and size of documents continues to increase disk-based storage is often struggles to keep pace with the challenges. The inherent performance limitations of traditional hard disk drives (HDD) fuel server and storage sprawl, require constant administration, and suffer from painfully slow backups and restore.

Violin Memory Arrays are high capacity flash memory-based systems that provide consistent low latency, high throughput, and greater end user satisfaction. They deliver fast access to email and attachments as well as consistent response time performance in other messaging environments even under heavy load. As the number of users grows, Violin provides the scalability to meet changing needs. A single 3U enclosure has 40TB of capacity and a full rack scales to over half a petabyte. Unlike SSD’s or single server flash cards, Violin Memory Arrays are designed to be shared network storage, supporting many clients and thousands of end-users.

Violin Memory Arrays offer the following benefits:

• Consistent low latency response time
• Consolidate servers and storage; reduce licensing costs
• Support more users and mailboxes per server
• Access mail and attachments faster
• Eliminate backup windows and speed up restore

Performance and Scalability Characteristics:

• Up to 40TB in a single 3U enclosure, over half a petabyte in a rack
• 250,000 IOPS from a single Memory Array
• Low latency – under 250 µsec
• Network attached via Fiber Channel (FC) or 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
• Unique flash vRAID for reliability and data protection

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