For R&D and Engineering, Violin Chooses Harman

Violin Systems LLC has chosen HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., to extend R&D efforts for its flash storage platform.

Choosing this firm will accelerate the time-to-market of Violin’s portfolio of technologies by augmenting the company’s engineering core with the technical expertise of the HARMAN Connected Services (HCS) division.

“One of the greatest resources a company can have is its human capital and at Violin we have been blessed by the richness of employees on our engineering team,” said Ebrahim Abbasi, Violin’ CEO and president. “With this partnership with HARMAN, we can better leverage our existing team by supplementing their efforts with established experts in enterprise infrastructure technologies to quickly and efficiently improve existing and future product lines. We look forward to a fruitful relationship with HARMAN as we continue to solve business challenges facing today’s enterprises.”

By selecting HARMAN, Violin can increase the size of its R&D engineering team with technical expertise as a complement to its engineering experts in building products with performance and low latency with data services. 

Together, Violin with HCS will accelerate R&D efforts to provide customers advanced features, functionalities, integration and readiness.

“As the market continues to see wider adoption of flash-enabled storage systems, there is an increasing need to deploy products and solutions that can scale and address the needs of enterprises transforming their data centers. HARMAN’s Digitial Transformation Solutions team is excited to join Violin in developing new efficiencies and creating a joint center of excellence for the industry,” said Sandeep Kalra, senior VP and GM, HARMAN. 

With the Violin flash storage platform, enterprises can transition from legacy storage solutions to enterprise, all-flash storage to achieve favorable CAPEX and OPEX scenarios. The platform features performance optimized platform with rich data services to enable the transition of storage from legacy solution to all-flash, helping businesses achieve high throughput and lower latency. Whether organizations need improved performance, primary storage or additional capacity, the platform provides the ability to support growth, improve efficiency and manageability, and deliver consistent and predictable service levels without breaking the IT budget.