Posts Tagged ‘Systems Design’

The Violin Memory Four-Level System Architecture

by Jack on April 11, 2012

Much has been discussed about the various approaches to flash storage in the enterprise. Violin has taken an architectural path that started with early innovations in our unique Violin Switched Memory (vXM) architecture and hardware based vRAID to build a tightly integrated system that can’t be achieved with off-the-shelf components or stand-alone devices. This design [...]


Stanford Talk on Flash Memory Design

by JCRB on March 15, 2012

Back to school day. Over at Stanford they have a speaker series that has been going on for the last few… decades, called the  Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering Computer Systems Colloquium, known to many simply as EE380. The list of past speakers is as they say, long and distinguished, and includes such industry [...]


Why Design a Flash Storage System from Scratch?

by KRowett on February 10, 2012

Building from the ground up. High end enterprises require their flash storage systems to be extremely reliable, with excellent performance density, the ability to upgrade in place, and lasting for years. The best way to achieve that is starting the system design from scratch (the flash chips). Building from the ground up, Violin Memory is able to [...]