Violin Announces 6000 Series Flash Memory Arrays

Violin Memory has introduced the Violin 6000 Series flash Memory Arrays; all-silicon storage systems designed to be deployed as mission-critical primary storage. As noted in this Marketwatch news release, the 6000 Series marks a new flash-based vision for the future of enterprise storage. Violin also unveiled the new Violin 3220, doubling the storage capacity of the 3200 Series to 20 terabytes (TB) of SLC per 3U shelf.

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"With 80 percent reduction in cost per input/output operations per second (IOPS) and a 15:1 reduction in physical consolidation of hardware from a disk array vendor, Violin's "Rack in a Box" approach paves the way for CIOs to leverage all-silicon enterprise storage as the foundation for the most data-intensive enterprise environments, including those supporting virtualization, private and public clouds, and Big Data initiatives.

"Violin also unveiled the new Violin 3220, doubling the storage capacity of the 3200 Series to 20 terabytes (TB) of SLC per 3U shelf. Together, Violin's 3000 and 6000 Series transforms the industry by addressing all requirements for flash in the data center -- from specialized departmental application acceleration use-cases to business-critical enterprise and primary storage.

"Violin 6000 models are available based on either Single Level Cell (SLC) or Multi Level Cell (MLC) flash technology. Systems based on SLC are optimized for performance, supporting 16TBs per array and delivering one million RAIDed IOPS. Systems based on MLC are optimized for capacity and support 32TBs per array and deliver 500,000 RAIDed IOPS. Violin's unique vRAID hardware based approach results in the fastest MLC Memory Array on the market. Multiple Memory Arrays can be clustered together scaling to petabytes of storage and tens of millions of IOPS.

"Violin 3220 is available now and the new 6000 series Arrays are currently shipping to strategic partners in limited quantities with general availability in Q1."

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