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Datasheets

Violin 6000 series High Performance Primary Flash Memory Array
Primary Storage based on the highest availability and highest performance flash Memory Arrays.

Violin 3220 series High Performance Flash Memory Array
Violin’s highest performance, highest capacity Single Level Cell flash Memory Arrays.

Violin 3100 series Capacity Flash Memory Array
The Violin 3100 series is based on Multi Level Cell (MLC) flash technology and is optimized for density.

Violin 3200 series Capacity Flash Memory Array
The Violin 3200 series is based on Single Level Cell (SLC) flash technology and is optimized for performance

Violin vSHARE Memory Gateway
Violin Memory Gateways provide SAN/LAN access via Fiber Channel or Ethernet interfaces for shared network storage of one or multiple Flash Memory Arrays

Violin vCACHE
Violin vCACHE provides a scalable, network-based pool of flash memory for NFS caching

White Papers

Microsoft SQL Server and Violin flash Memory Arrays
The Evolution of Microsoft SQL Server: The right time for Violin flash Memory Arrays

IBM GPFS Benchmark Record
Violin Memory Breaks Existing GPFS World Record By 37 Times using IBM Research Storage Technology

Disk Storage Shortfall
Understanding the root cause of the I/O bottleneck – mechanical disk drives in a silicon data center

The Server-Storage Performance Gap
How disk drive throughput and access time affect performance.

CIO WP – Flash Memory Arrays: Enabling the Virtualized Data Center
An overview of Flash Memory Arrays and how they fit within the evolution of the modern data center

An Overview of vSHARE: Intelligent Flash Storage
Violin vSHARE systems based on Flash Memory Arrays enable the cost effective large-scale deployment of flash-based enterprise storage. This paper provides an overview of vSHARE systems, architecture, features, and underlying technology.

Violin Memory Flash vRAID Overview
Violin has developed a unique hardware based flash vRAID designed specifically for Flash Memory Arrays to reliably protect data, efficiently utilize resources, and optimize performance.

Data Center Megatrends: Consolidate, Conserve, and Virtualize
These three trends are having a major impact on the evolution of the modern data center. This paper looks at the server-storage performance gap from the perspective of dealing with them.

Server Virtualization: Avoiding the I/O Trap
How Flash Memory Arrays and NFS caching help balance increasing I/O loads of virtualized servers

Provisioning for Predictable Performance
A closer look at server, network, and storage provisioning in enterprise computing.

Data Center Performance Insurance
How NFS caching guarantees rapid response times during peak workloads.

Solving Rendering Bottlenecks in Computer Animation
A technical overview of Violin NFS caching success in computer animation

Accelerating Software Development with Centralized Caching
Scalable caching systems reduce build times for existing development tools.

Case Studies

AOL Installs 50TB of Violin Memory Arrays; Boosts DB performance by 4x
Slide Presentation, Dan Pollack, Senior Operations Architect, AOL

Computerworld Case Study, October 14, 2010

Perforce Creates a “Dream Machine” with a Violin Memory Array for a Software Configuration Management (SCM) solution for the most demanding environments
Watch the Dream Machine video

Perforce Dream Machine Presentation Slides

Brand.net uses Violin Memory Arrays for an online advertising data warehouse with over one billion records
Brand.net Data Warehouse Case Study

Leading real estate information company accelerates SQL Server data warehouse performance with Violin Memory Arrays
Data Warehouse Case Study

Healthcare Services Company accelerates SQL Server data warehouse performance with Violin Memory Arrays
Healthcare Data Warehouse Case Study

Addressing the challenges of building a robust and high performance Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) including a reference architecture developed and tested by Force 3 that includes technology from VMware, Cisco, and Violin Memory
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) use case and reference architecture

Multimedia

Flash Forward. Insanely Powerful, Beautifully Simple – watch the video