Violin Flash Arrays Certified With SAP Sybase ASE Adaptive Server Enterprise

Violin
Memory, Inc. and SAP AG announced that Violin 6000 Series Flash
Memory Arrays are certified for interoperability with SAP Sybase Adaptive
Server Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE), delivering reliability and accelerated
performance across a range of enterprise applications.

Used together, these solutions will provide customers with enhanced and
simplified solutions that leverage the power of Violin arrays and business-critical
SAP applications to accelerate transaction-driven environments. Additionally,
Violin Memory is now an SAP software solution and technology partner in the SAP
PartnerEdge
program. It will work with SAP to serve new and existing customers,
partners and channels to benefit from solutions from Violin Memory and SAP.
Violin products are also available in support of SAP ERP applications.

"The
Violin Flash Memory Arrays integrated with SAP Sybase ASE are a key solid-state
storage component for the acceleration of business-critical applications from
SAP," said Kevin Ichhpurani, SVP, business development and ecosystem
innovation, SAP. "The certification
process showed that the arrays can deliver significant performance improvement
over traditional disk-based systems, delivering substantial value to customers.
In fact, during preliminary internal testing, we have seen 10x improvement in
the performance of SAP Sybase ASE running on Violin Flash Memory."

According to Violin Memory’s CEO Don Basile:
"SAP’s certification of Violin
Memory will give customers added confidence that they can deploy an economical
flash memory system in a business environment that demands low latency and high
performance. Through our partnership with SAP, we plan to expand the reach of
memory-based storage technology to the enterprise."

Benefits of the Violin array
for SAP Sybase ASE include the acceleration of IO-bound OLTP applications, the acceleration of database set-up operations,
checkpoints, logs and ETL (Extract Transform and Load) activities.

Storage at Speed of Memory
The purpose-built memory arrays from Violin provide
the benefits of traditional storage in terms of persistence, reliability,
network sharing, scale and economics. The low sustained latencies and high
IOPS performance in a 3U form factor delivering one million IOPS for mixed
workloads brings a new shift in terms of the value proposition
delivered by SAP Sybase ASE running on Violin.

SAP Sybase ASE is a high-performance
database platform, optimized for extreme transaction processing environments,
achieving millions of transactions per minute on large and growing databases.
It helps improve operational efficiency and reduce overall costs through
efficient use of storage, processor, and staff resources.

Certification report of SAP Sybase ASE
running on Violin flash memory-based storage arrays