Violin Partnering With VMware

Violin Memory, Inc. announced an OEM agreement with VMware, Inc. offering virtualization-in-a-box to enterprise customers.

This
enables companies to run business critical and big data applications at
the speed of memory in virtualized and cloud environments.

By
running vSphere natively on the company flash memory arrays, customers
can put business applications directly on Violin’s system to get storage
performance without worrying about the configuration or management of
traditional storage networks.

Faster data transactions enable businesses to make real-time decisions.

"Violin
has identified the virtualization challenges with disk-based storage
infrastructures and set out to eliminate those barriers using flash," said Narayan Venkat, VP of products for Violin Memory. "By
partnering with VMware, we enable our customers to achieve their goal
of a fully virtualized data center. This is one of the many steps we’ve
taken to apply the benefits of flash to virtualized environments, and
create specialized application acceleration appliances like Virtual
Database-in-a-box, Private Cloud-in-a-box and VDI-in-a-box."

According to Parag Patel, VP of Global Strategic Alliances for VMware, "Embedding
industry-leading VMware technology empowers companies such as Violin
Memory to increase the value of solutions provided to customers. By
partnering with VMware, Violin Memory can deliver fully contained and
simplified virtualization solutions based on VMware technology."

VMware
embedded OEM partners are provided a way to bundle VMware
products into their solutions. Working with VMware, Violin Memory is
increasing control of virtualized deployments, tailored to its specific
go-to-market and ongoing post-sales support preferences.