Steve Dalton SVP Engineering, Violin Memory

Violin Memory, Inc. announced the promotion of Steve Dalton to SVP of engineering from VP of software.

He joined Violin one year ago from Intel where he was the GM of Intel’s Datacenter flash software organization.

He reports to Kevin DeNuccio, president and CEO.

Dalton has more than 30 years of experience in the storage and networking markets, and brings knowledge in compute, storage systems and flash infrastructures. He has designed, built and scaled talented, fast-paced engineering teams to drive productivity and success. In his new role at Violin, he will leverage his experience to develop core array products into an expanded product portfolio that addresses the major enterprise datacenter flash market.

“Since joining Violin, Steve has led our software strategy and development teams. As senior VP of engineering, he will drive the focused efforts of our entire engineering organization,” said DeNuccio. “His engineering knowledge of flash combined with his ability to develop and manage effective engineering teams will be critical to Violin’s long-term strategy to provide advanced data management software to the market.”

“Violin’s flash technology continues to surpass the capabilities of any offering on the market,” said Dalton. “Violin is well-positioned to differentiate and offer an outstanding and attractive flash solution portfolio.”

Dalton joined Violin one year ago from Intel where he was the GM of the company’s datacenter flash software organization, responsible for flash development for enterprise datacenters. Prior to Intel, He served as GM of the file storage division at FalconStor Software, where he managed a product portfolio that enabled storage virtualization and BC in heterogeneous environments. Prior to that, Dalton was GM and SVP of engineering for Quantum where he built the tiered storage system division into a profitable, multi-million dollar business centered on the software de-duplication platform (DXi). Earlier in his career, he was VP of engineering, then CEO of Gadzoox Networks which was sold to Broadcom Corporation. He was also one of the original developers to implement the storage architecture for high-speed, 3D graphics I/O at Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Dalton holds multiple patents, and is a published author as well as co-author of a book titled FWB’s Guide to Storage.

He holds a B.S. in applied engineering technology from Cal Poly and an M.B.A. in executive management from St. Mary’s College of California.

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