Nirvanix Selects Violin Memory

Violin
Memory, Inc. has been selected by Nirvanix, Inc. for its public cloud storage
network spanning 10 data centres around the world.

Violin’s purpose-built Flash Memory Arrays have increased performance for
customers by up to 15 times and enabled Nirvanix to expand its business into
new markets. The Nirvanix-Violin solution is implemented across several
multi-petabyte clouds, including a leading $50 billion financial services
company. This is validation that Violin’s flash technology is replacing
conventional SAN systems due to its performance,
scalability and cost advantages.

New wave of applications deployed in cloud
In addition to increasing performance by up
to 15 times over conventional SAN storage, customer data from Nirvanix
demonstrate that applications deployed in private clouds perform at near line
speed, delivering nine GB/s of throughput on a 10GbE line
and ensuring SLAs are met for consistent and
continuous data accessibility and ingest. This ushers in a new wave of
applications that can be deployed in the cloud.

"Integrating
Violin Memory with our public, private and hybrid cloud solutions expands the
opportunities for our customers to build their business on a cloud foundation
and opens up business opportunities for us to better serve both new and
existing customers," said Dru Borden, CEO of Nirvanix. "The superior performance of Violin’s primary
Flash Storage Arrays enhances the enterprise-class scale, security, data
integrity and data accessibility that we provide."

"Enterprise
customers are looking to cloud storage solutions to store and access key
business data while delivering an enterprise-class experience," said
Jeff Janukowicz, research director of Solid State Storage at IDC. "High-performance flash-based storage
systems, such as from Violin Memory, are well positioned to deliver that
experience to customers by providing the performance, reliability and
scalability necessary in a cost-efficient manner."

Backups reduced from months to weeks
Violin Flash Storage Arrays have been
implemented worldwide, delivering benefits to customers. One Nirvanix-Violin
private cloud customer plans to back up several hundreds of terabytes per week;
processing this amount of data would take months using conventional disk-based
SAN storage. This financial services company will deploy more than 10PB of
storage across multiple geographic locations.

"Violin
Memory is dedicated to providing storage solutions in line with the
performance, availability and economic needs of modern enterprise data centres,"
said Don Basile, CEO of Violin Memory. "Nirvanix is a world-class example of leveraging flash memory to build
the storage infrastructure of the future. We are excited to be a part of the
global cloud market with flash storage at the core."

Choosing Violin’s flash memory arrays
over traditional
SAN storage
Nirvanix is essentially an URL with a byte
stream payload that is consistent and globally replicated based on
policy with infinite elasticity. Violin Memory provides an injection of
horsepower into the Nirvanix cloud architecture accelerating I/O performance
for the most demanding enterprise customers and Fortune 500 clients.
Nirvanix evaluated multiple traditional SAN storage options but Violin
convincingly demonstrated superior performance and economics.