Distributor of Violin Memory, Tara Sistem Announces Rapid Adoption of All Flash Arrays in Turkey

Violin Memory, Inc., announced that its All Flash Arrays (AFAs) were adopted at a fast pace in the Turkish marketplace in 2015.

With robust IT spending and accelerating implementations of transformational technologies across the country, the growth appears likely to continue into 2016.

Violin reseller Tara Sistem Bilişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. experienced this rapid growth first hand, benefiting from a 10-fold increase in the sales of Violin All-Flash products in 2015, compared to the previous year.

“This growth was fueled, in part, by the successful sale and integration of Violin All-Flash Arrays into several major national companies, including government-owned Halkbank; Migros, the second-largest retailer in Turkey; and Turkish Airlines, the sixth-largest airline in Europe. What’s more, Acibadem Hospitals Group, one of the largest healthcare organizations in the country, is also using Violin for its core application,” said Aybars Gumus, GM, Tara Sistem. “Turkish companies clearly see the benefits of going all-flash. Tara Sistem customers have seen Oracle database performance improvements of more than 60% after implementing Violin AFAs. Depending on application and data type, the performance increases brought about by the integration of Violin AFAs in the Turkish market have reached as much as 600%.“

The upsurge of Violin AFAs in Turkey is attributed to evolving storage performance requirements, which have rendered many legacy storage architectures inadequate or obsolete. As a result, financial, retail and transportation organizations are increasingly turning to AFAs to address their growing data challenges.

The rising demand for AFAs is congruent with predictions by IDC that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) spending in Turkey was primed to cross the $27 billion mark. This growth is attributed to Turkish organizations’ increasing investments in technologies such as big data, cloud, social business and mobility. IDC forecast that Turkish organizations would make further investments in the data-center space as well as in mission-critical hype-rscale servers, which are predicted to be game-changers for organizations from late 2015 into 2016. The accelerating adoption of these data-intensive technologies has elicited greater demand for next-generation storage technologies such as flash that offer the performance, speed and efficiency necessary to accommodate their needs.

“Many Turkish customers have experienced significant growth throughout 2015 and have thus invested heavily in data-driven technologies such as cloud, big data and mobility that place heavy performance demands on spinning disk and SSD-based storage architectures,” Gumus continued. “What’s more, the way in which customers access and use data is also changing rapidly. Servicing this kind of growth often requires a re-evaluation of backend storage architectures, and many organizations have found that AFAs, with their vastly superior performance, reliability and speed, can better meet these elevated demands. We regard Violin AFAs as the best in the industry, and looking ahead, this makes Violin the right partner to help us take advantage of the enormous market opportunity for high-quality all-flash solutions in the year ahead.“