Confirmed Acquisition of GridIron by Violin

Violin Memory, Inc. has completed the acquisition of GridIron Systems, Inc., in data center application acceleration.

GridIron solutions accelerate the performance of a range of enterprise applications including OLTP, data warehouses, virtualization and big data analytics.

"The acquisition of GridIron Systems complements and expands Violin Memory’s strategy of offering memory-based solutions that accelerate business critical applications while optimizing IT infrastructures," said Don Basile, CEO of Violin. "The expanded talent, technology and intellectual property position Violin Memory at the forefront of the ongoing transformation of enterprise data centers to memory-based architectures."

Violin provides its customers with tier 1 flash memory array solutions that enable them to achieve high performance for a variety of enterprise applications. GridIron brings sophisticated IP for SAN-based caching and application acceleration to Violin’s market portfolio.

"GridIron’s patented algorithms enable dramatic application acceleration in data center SAN environments by non-intrusively learning about I/O access patterns and caching an application’s active dataset," said Som Sikdar, founder and CTO of GridIron. "By combining GridIron IP and Violin Memory Array technologies, we can deliver solutions that will allow companies to transform the way they deploy and manage applications in their data center."

GridIron System’s business, engineering and operations units have been integrated with Violin Memory.