Violin XVS 8 3U Doubles Capacity Storage Platform With NVMe Interface

Violin Systems LLC announced that adoption of the NVMe standard interface into its storage platform is enabling a doubling of capacity of its XVS 8.

Combined with the company’s hallmarks of performance and enterprise data services, this release offers customers a transformative option for ensuring business-critical information remains immediately accessible in order to derive maximum value from it.

With twice the capacity delivered in the same 3U form factor, the NVMe-based XVS provides an density-to-performance ratio to improve the operational of data-driven organizations. By maximizing application performance while reducing IT infrastructure costs, the company enables organizations to achieve rapid transactions, timely business insights, reduce time to market and speed up sales cycles.

“Across many industries, there are workloads that will always benefit from lower storage latencies that enable enterprises to increase revenues, service more customers faster, and introduce new types of applications that were just not possible before,” said Eric Burgener, research VP, infrastructure systems, platforms and technologies group, IDC. “With the burgeoning use of AI, machine and deep learning, and the IoT, demand for these types of extreme performance systems is growing, and IDC predicts that by 2021 NVMe-based storage systems will be driving over 50% of all primary external storage system revenues. Vendors like Violin Systems, whose systems leverage NVMe technology to deliver consistent and predictable low latencies at scale, give customers a proven enterprise storage foundation on which to build competitive differentiation.“

By enhancing the NVMe standard interface with its proprietary performance-enhancing technologies, the company ensures compatibility with existing infrastructure, eliminating the need for customers to rip-and-replace in order to meet business demands while still ensuring continuity of operations, data protection, scale and major efficiencies in storage. Customers can continue to leverage their current storage for less-critical, lighter-performance workloads while deploying the firm’s solution for applications requiring consistent, performance for an impactful end-to-end experience.

“We are excited to see Violin innovating without compromising their core values of performance and continuity,” said Svetlana Agapova, CIO, VTB Insurance Ltd., a part of SOGAZ Insurance Group, which is a large insurance group in Russian market. “Violin storage platforms enable us to save money while maximizing the performance of our business-critical applications.“

The XVS 8 is suited for organizations and industries that demand performance and reliability, including financial services, healthcare, government, education, transportation, and media and entertainment. The performance storage and software enable performance for OLTP, SQL databases, real-time analytics and others are far too slow to support. The company’s set of enterprise services leveraged on standards-based technology is an increasingly attractive alternative to others requiring a major overhaul to implement.

“Sonifi was seeking a cost-effective, high performance storage array for our VMware workloads.” said Barry Hyronimus, director, IT operations, Sonifi Solutions, Inc., provider in guest engagement solutions for the hospitality industry that is serving 500 million travelers in over one million hotel rooms annually. “Violin storage was an easy choice – as they offer consistent sub-millisecond latency and the implementation was a breeze.“

“As the pioneer of all-flash arrays and leader in consistent extreme performance, we continue to seek out new ways to innovate,” said Mark Lewis, chairman and CEO, Violin. “Now, with NVMe technology maturing, we have taken standard SSDs and optimized them for consistent performance with Violin’s patented vRAID technology and specific tuning while working closely with media technology players.“

The NVMe version of the XVS 8 features total usable capacity of up to 151TB, with effective capacity as high as 907TB factoring in the firm’s deduplication and compression ratios.

The XVS 8 is available for purchase through the company’s partner first network of VARs.

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