Violin Memory
|
|
Violin Memory is the ultimate solution for the company who is looking to accelerate their business critical applications and virtualise their Data Center storage with a scalable flash memory array that delivers unprecedented sustainability and spike-free latency at price points challenging HDD performance storage. Violin’s memory appliances bring a new level of reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) by providing:
Violin Memory has rewritten the rules for how solid-state memory, Flash or DRAM or any memory type, can be deployed into the enterprise. Violin’s technology innovation stems from a system level view to re-architect a reliable, robust, and efficient memory system. Most solid-state companies squeeze solid state memory into either existing form factors such as hard drives or existing architectures such as the traditional linear bus found in most computer systems. Thus, along two dimensions, both form factor and level of integration, Violin has innovated with patented solutions.
Many applications in today’s data center are constrained by their ability to access data stored on mechanical disk drives. With fast multicore processors and high speed networks, the common bottleneck is the latency and throughput limitations of disk-based storage. Even the fastest drives available deliver less than 250 IOPS with latency greater than 5 msec. System administrators and IT architects often find themselves over-provisioning disk drives and endlessly tuning to squeeze out incremental performance gains.
Relief has arrived in the form of flash Memory Arrays. A single 10TB array can deliver 250,000 IOPS with latency under 0.1 msec (100 µsec) boosting application performance by a factor of 10 or more. This benefits a wide range of data intensive applications including databases, data warehousing, analytics, messaging, and content management. Commercial high performance computing (HPC) applications seen in industries such as energy exploration and rendering for computer generated imaging (CGI) are constantly looking for higher performance. Large scale file systems like IBM GPFS can see a significant performance increase from speeding up metadata access.
As the data center transforms with increased adoption of virtualisation, cloud computing, and the management of big data, storage is increasingly becoming a roadblock. Here are a few examples of how flash Memory Arrays eliminate roadblocks and improve application performance.
Reporting and query acceleration for Oracle Analytics
MySQL Server Consolidation for Social Networking
Metadata Server Acceleration – Perforce
Performance Acceleration for SQL Server Data Warehouse
Violin Memory also offer a variety of resources to support customers with their products and installations. These resources are available 24/7 to help get the most out of your Flash Memory Array solutions.
Click here to view the whitepaper "Remove all bottlenecks to enterprise VDI deployments using flash Memory Arrays".
To find out more about Violin Memory and how Shift F7 can work with you to derive the maximum benefit from their solutions, please contact your Shift F7 account manager on 01306 973900. |
