Violin Memory has a wide range of customers including social networking, Financial Service,  web properties and Federal just to name a few.  Any I/O intensive application will benefit dramatically from moving from inefficient disk based array solutions to a Violin flash Memory Array including On Line Transaction Processing (OLTP), Business Intelligence/Analytics, email and video to name a few.

AOL uses EMC VPLEX to deploy 50+ Terabytes of Violin Memory Arrays

AOL is a global business with a storage team that manages 22 petabytes of internal and external information. The team is faced with time intensive database jobs with challenging Service Level Agreements, but AOL’s infrastructure of large disk arrays have constant IO bottlenecks.

Daily reports need to be processed for distribution to the field and meeting this SLA was difficult with today’s large HDD arrays and growing data requirements. To alleviate the issues, AOL used EMC’s VPLEX solution to integrate and manage several Violin Flash Memory Arrays, accelerating jobs dramatically, cutting costs and enabling more timely reports for the field while reducing rackspace, power and adding headroom for future growth.

Attendees of this session will get a first-hand view of AOL’s decision to adopt a new IT infrastructure to support their business needs, the ROI realized and a sneak peak at what’s to come in the future.

Slide Presentation
Dan Pollack, Senior Operations Architect, AOL

AOL installs 50TB of  Violin Memory Arrays; boosts DB performance by 4X
Computerworld.com, October 14, 2010

Perforce “Dream Machine”

Perforce Software build a robust and flexible SCM tool that fits any team’s traditional or agile workflow, increases productivity, improves software quality, and helps our customers quickly adapt to market changes. Perforce delivers stellar performance, and our world-class technical support is second to none with more than 380,000 users across 5,400 businesses using Perforce.

Customers include many Fortune 500 companies, world brand leaders, and influencers in diverse industries. Perforce ability to scale up to meet the needs of the most demanding enterprise environments was demonstrated at the Perforce User Conference in June 2011 where a Violin 3205 Memory Array and an HP DL580 were crowned the “Dream Machine” as an example how to scale their most demanding environments.

Quotes from the Perforce user conference:

“IO that provides the lowest amount of latency is going to be ideal for you.  While in the past 15k RPM drives were the champions of low latency access, today the tendency is moving towards enterprise grade flash Memory Arrays.” – Tim Brazil, Perforce

"What we used to see as good numbers on the old 'dated' hardware vs what we are seeing now is a whole new ballgame… No explanation really necessary – old vs new, 'do you want to be the tall bars or small bars'" - Tim Brazil, Perforce Software

“If you pick an average salary in a typical 8 hour day, a 500 user site would save $4,800 per day in lost productivity and that would allow you to pay for a Terabyte of Violin Memory storage in 10 days… That’s a no-brainer!” – Michael Shields, Perforce Software  Performance Lab Manager

Watch the Dream Machine video.

Perforce Dream Machine Presentation Slides

Brand.net online Advertising Case Study

Brand.net delivers innovative online marketing solutions to their customers and has become the leading driver of offline sales through online advertising for the world’s largest advertisers. Use of Violin Memory Arrays allowed a dramatic reduction in Brand.net’s required server volume. “Violin allows us to rapidly read and write frequency data for any one of one billion records using only two servers; without Violin it would have been twenty or more”

Data Warehouse Case Study

SQL Server Data Warehouse Case Study

A leading real estate information company based in California was about to buy a new SAN and/or outsource their data center to deal with massive amount of real estate transaction data when they discovered Violin Memory Arrays which after a short POC proved to greatly accelerate their SQL Server based data warehouse.

Data Warehouse Case Study

Healthcare Case Study

This provider of healthcare revenue cycle management services by assuming the responsibility for the management management and cost of their customers’ revenue cycle operations, supplementing existing staff with state-of-the-industry technology, expertise, and resources. Their specific problem was managing the massive data ingest of healthcare business data. Violin Memory greatly accelerated their operations and lowered their costs.

Healthcare Case Study

VDI Use Case

A growing number of Federal staff are being asked to telecommute and driving the need to virtualize the physical desktop. Supporting the increased demand of thousands to work anywhere, any place is stressing traditional storage subsystems. Because Violin Memory enables extreme IO load, you can increase the number of virtual centers well beyond the hardcoded maximum effectively enabling dramatically higher virtual deployments. As a result, organizations will realize savings in CAPEX, OPEX (space and power) while providing greater performance and larger operating windows.

The Windows desktop I/O has a strong impact on storage system performance. Therefore, separating the desktop operating system I/O from the rest of the enterprise storage can reduce the negative impact on critical enterprise application performance. This reference architecture segregates the desktop I/O to the flash memory storage, while keeping the valuable persistent user data in an enterprise network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN) via folder redirection and persistent disk. This approach can optimize the storage performance against data value and overall system cost by shifting intensive Windows I/O to a higher-performing Violin flash Memory Array. Violin Memory enables the ability to provision thousands of machines in minutes. The boot times and latency of the virtual desktops can be up to 10x better under load.

VDI Use Case