Colfax International and Virident Together

Virident Systems, Inc., in flash-based storage class memory (SCM) solutions, and Colfax International, provider of engineered workstations, servers, clusters, storage, and personal supercomputing solutions, announced a strategic partnership and the availability of custom-designed high-performance server solutions for enterprise customers.

The custom-designed servers will feature high-performance processing from Colfax’s line of server solutions, and Virident’s FlashMAX high capacity PCIe storage class memory solutions delivering performance.

Customers in the defense, aerospace, energy, government, education, finance, manufacturing, digital media, Web 2.0 and scientific research industries will benefit from the high-performance processing and storage performance of the server solutions.

For example, a CAD/CAM application will return stress, fluid, or material analysis results much quicker than before possible, and create time for additional queries. Any applications running on Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server will run faster with custom-configured server solutions from Colfax featuring FlashMAX SCM solutions, which are able to support the increasing capabilities and speeds of multi-core processors, the influx of big data, and demands for application performance.

"Virident’s and Colfax International’s customers fit a similar profile," said Kumar Ganapathy, CEO of Virident. "We both cater to large enterprises where unconditional, peak performance is critical to their business. Our joint solutions are ideal for high-performance applications based on Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server databases."

"Colfax International chose Virident because of the unconditional performance characteristics of FlashMAX for high-performance applications," said Gautam Shah, CEO of Colfax. "We are confident that Virident FlashMAX will be an excellent complement to our product portfolio because our customers rate top performance as their measurement for success."

FlashMAX, a PCIe storage class memory solution, ensures that application performance is 10 times faster than hard disk drive systems at one-third of the total cost of ownership. It offers high storage capacity in the small footprint. FlashMAX SCM has been designed from the ground up to exploit computer architectures which leverage many fast CPU cores and the PCIe interconnect bus to deliver maximum application performance.

High-performance server solutions are available in a variety of custom configurations from the two companies.