Bert Nordberg Board’s Director of Violin

Violin Memory, Inc., provider of fast and scalable memory appliances, announced that Bert Nordberg, President of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, has joined the company’s Board of Directors.

 Nordberg is a key addition to the board as Violin expands its global presence as a leading solution for the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing in the world’s most advanced data centers.

"Violin’s silicon storage arrays will have a significant impact on the power consumption required to run the world’s data centers and emerging cloud infrastructure," said Bert Nordberg, President of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. "I look forward to lending my global business experience to assist Don Basile, his team, and the global CIOs he has assembled on the company’s Advisory Board to reach the company’s growth potential. Violin’s memory appliances offer the first true enterprise-grade silicon storage device that will enable true data center virtualization and pave the way to enterprise cloud computing in data centers around the world."

"We are pleased and honored to have Bert Nordberg’s expertise and guidance. He brings tremendous capabilities to Violin’s board with his experience in growing multi-billion dollar businesses, leading international operations and delivering solutions to the largest and most sophisticated customers that will be a valuable asset to our company’s strategic direction," said Don Basile, CEO of Violin Memory. "Bert is a thought leader and visionary and his senior leadership at Ericsson and now Sony Ericsson brings experience that will advance Violin Memory’s profile as a breakthrough silicon storage provider for high-performance data centers."

On Oct. 15, Nordberg will assume the role of President of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. Before becoming President, he was Executive Vice President of the Ericsson Group and Head of Ericsson Silicon Valley. Nordberg originally joined Ericsson in Sweden in 1996 as the head of Enterprise Services and advanced through the company’s executive leadership structure to serve as EVP of Group Function Sales and Marketing of Telefonaktiebolaget, EVP of Ericsson Services, EVP of Division Global Services, Head of Business Unit Global Services, Head of Business Unit Systems and SVP of Group Function Sales and Marketing.

Violin Memory appliances are specifically designed for scalable, reliable and sustainable use in the data center. These silicon storage appliances scale to millions of IOs per second and tens of terabytes of capacity. In 2010, Violin will deliver density, reliability and per terabyte pricing competitive with enterprise-class performance hard disk drive storage thus transforming the entire pricing structure of the performance storage market.