Twenty AsiaPac Customers for Violin Memory

Violin Memory, Inc. announced that its All Flash Arrays (AFAs) have gained adoption in the AsiaPac region from February 2015 through April 2016.

The company signed 20 customers in the region from a range of industries – including financial, telecom, electronics and others. This strong growth demonstrates that the move to AFA solutions is becoming a crucial business requirement.

Violin Memory has had major customer wins in Australia, Korea, Japan, China and Indonesia. In Korea, C&M Gangdong Cable TV Co. Ltd. chose Violin for a VDI deployment that allowed the customer to drive virtualization and consolidation while delivering performance across a mix of workloads and reducing VM storage costs.

In addition to meeting the VDI needs of its customers in the AsiaPac Region, Violin has also given corporations, such as Korean-based global distiller and drink manufacturer Hite Jinro the ability to maximize productivity and increase storage efficiency with its all-flash storage platform solutions.

As the world’s leading producer of Soju – and the company responsible for more than half of the beverage’s sales worldwide – Hite Jinro Co Ltd. was in need of a solution that would optimize business intelligence and performance in the Oracle database environment. After migrating to Violin’s Flash Storage Platform 7300, Hite Jinro achieved up to 20 times higher I/O performance for its Oracle BI system compared to its previous HDD-based solution.

The need for database acceleration within the AsiaPac region has also been made clear, with several companies from various business sectors – including consumer packaged goods, finance and others – choosing Violin’s Flash Storage Platform. New database acceleration customers include New Zealand’s Education Payroll Limited, a core part of New Zealand’s education sector that manages payments to the people at the heart of the country’s education system; and Invesco Great Wall Fund Management Co. Ltd, a fund management company based in China.

“The widespread and rapid adoption of Violin’s flash storage solutions in the AsiaPac marketplace aligns closely with research findings from IDC, confirming that business leaders in the region are confident in the ability of AFAs to enable business agility and accelerate business performance,” said Magnus Almquist, VP APAC, Latin America and emerging markets, Violin Memory.

IDC’s survey of 700 organizations across Australia, China, Singapore, India, Korea and Japan – each with more than 100TB of primary storage – found that 89% of respondents believe that by exploiting AFAs, they will have an opportunity to generate significant business innovation. The survey also found that with an increasingly complex business landscape, the top reasons business leaders initiate digital transformation of business processes and business models are to  bring to market new products and services (74.9%), build a deeper understanding of customers buying preferences (74.6%) and improve the quality and response time of post-sales services (61.5%)¹.

¹IDC, Flash in Driving Business Transformation in the Digital Age, 2015