Violin All-Flash Primary Systems Built on Concerto OS 7

Violin Memory, Inc. announced worldwide availability of the Flash Storage Platform (FSP), including the new 7300 and 7700 all flash arrays, Concerto OS 7, and Symphony 3 management control.

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The Flash Storage Platform is an all-flash storage system designed to run all primary storage and active workloads below the cost of traditional disk. It achieves consolidation and simplification of next generation data centre workloads by delivering hight performance storage at low Capex and Opex.

“The Flash Storage Platform is a game changer for our customers and the industry as it creates the tipping point for enterprises to capture the promise of flash for all primary storage workloads, and to migrate and refresh disk storage to all-flash cost effectively. At the same time, customers gain 10X performance improvements for most applications. These performance improvements deliver efficiencies that can completely change the competitive dynamics of most industries by removing the latency and bottlenecks created in the data center by legacy disk,” said Kevin DeNuccio, CEO, Violin.

“The Flash Storage Platform delivers the performance of flash, and enterprise-grade data services, including user selectable block-level, inline de-duplication and compression at end-user costs that compete with traditional disk array prices on a single, simple, powerful platform,” DeNuccio concluded.

At the heart is Concerto OS 7. It combines Violin’s system-level flash management and control, block-level de-duplication and compression data efficiency engine, and a set of data management, protection, and recovery services, into a single, integrated OS. Concerto OS 7 is managed by the user through Symphony 3, delivering the flexibility and granular control on a per workload, application or LUN level of all features with a simple, single pane of glass storage management solution.

“The explosive growth of data has had a significant impact on how organisations in Australia store and manage data. In a fast-paced environment, everyone demands data fast, in real-time without any downtime. For the first time, customers here no longer need complex solutions with multiple components running different software environments and fragmented feature sets. With Concerto OS 7 as the foundation for the Flash Storage Platform, data protection, data reduction, performance, and scalability for the vast majority of primary storage needs are met in a single enclosure running a single OS managed through a single pane of glass,” said Ross Lynch, Violin’s director for ANZ.

The 7300 and 7700 designs reduce the effective cost-per-gigabyte by more than 75% over the company’s prior generation of arrays, and are more than 25% lower in cost-per-gigabyte than the competition. For large deployments the system delivers all-flash storage at $1.50 effective cost-per-gigabyte, making it possible to upgrade all primary storage to all-flash, opening up the roughly $15 billion primary storage market to all-flash based solutions.

The Flash Storage Platform’s fourth generation Flash Fabric Architecture (FFA) sets new level of performance, scale and density. The capacity of the 7300 FSP is 217TB effective in a three rack unit space, while the Violin 7700 FSP six-shelf configuration exceeds 1.3PB effective, delivering a density of 2.2PB in a rack. Each shelf or array delivers sustained performance that can achieve one million IO/s at sub-millisecondcond latencies.

“We are excited to enhance our Toshiba Total Storage Platform portfolio with Violin Memory’s new 7300/7300E Flash Storage Platforms series, which utilize Toshiba’s state-of-the-art NAND technology, and augment its comprehensive data service capabilities with the sophisticated inline deduplication and compression functions. We will continue to strengthen our relationship with Violin Memory to deliver flash memory solution to the market,” said Koichi Kagawa, GM, cloud and solutions compny, Toshiba Corporation.

“While the adoptin of all flash arrays is widely apparent to enterprise users, they remain concerned about the stability of software for services like data protection and data migration tacked onto these systems. Because data service and protection software is embedded at the kernel level, the Violin Flash Storage Platform eliminates this concern, ensuring end users an easy upgrade path and simplified management,” said Eric Burgener, storage research director, IDC Corp.