Violin Memory, Inc., a leading provider and pioneer of award-winning all-flash storage
arrays, announced worldwide availability of the Flash Storage Platform (FSP), including the new 7300 and 7700 all
flash arrays, Concerto OS 7, and Symphony 3 simple management control. The
Flash Storage Platform is the first all-flash storage system designed to run
all primary storage and active workloads below the cost of traditional disk.
The Flash Storage Platform achieves the ultimate consolidation and
simplification of next generation data center workloads by delivering the
highest performance storage at the lowest CAPEX and OPEX possible today. All Flash, All Workloads, All Performance,
All at a Cost Lower than Disk.
At the heart of this engineering achievement is Concerto
OS 7, which combines Violin's system-level flash management and control,
block-level de-duplication and compression data efficiency engine, and one of
the broadest sets of data management, protection, and recovery services, into a
single, integrated operating system. All the power of Concerto OS 7 is managed
by the user through Symphony 3,
delivering the ultimate flexibility and granular control on a per
workload, application or LUN level of all features with the most elegant, and
simple, single pane of glass storage management solution in the industry.
The 7300 and 7700 Flash Storage Platform designs reduce
the effective cost-per-gigabyte by more than 75 percent over Violin's prior
generation of arrays, and are more than 25 percent lower in cost-per-gigabyte
than the competition. For large deployments the system delivers all-flash
storage for as low as $1.50 effective cost-per-gigabyte, making it possible for
the first time, to upgrade all primary storage to all-flash, opening up the
roughly $15B primary storage market to all-flash based solutions.
The Flash Storage Platform's fourth generation Flash
Fabric Architecture (FFA) sets new and unprecedented levels of performance,
scale and density. The capacity of the 7300 FSP is 217TB effective in a three
rack unit space, while the Violin 7700 FSP six-shelf configuration exceeds 1.3
petabytes effective, delivering industrial scale and density of 2.2 petabytes
effective in a rack. The Flash Storage Platform achieves 1 million IOPS at
sub-millisecond latencies delivering capacity and performance for greater
workload consolidation.
"The Flash Storage Platform is a game changer for our
customers and the industry as it creates the tipping point for enterprises to
capture the promise of flash for all primary storage workloads, and to migrate
and refresh disk storage to all-flash cost effectively. At the same time,
customers gain 10X performance improvements for most applications. These
performance improvements deliver efficiencies that can completely change the
competitive dynamics of most industries by removing the latency and bottlenecks
created in the data center by legacy disk," said Kevin DeNuccio, CEO at Violin
Memory.
"The Flash Storage Platform delivers the performance of
flash, and enterprise-grade data services, including user selectable
block-level, inline de-duplication and compression at end-user costs that
compete with traditional disk array prices on a single, simple, powerful
platform," DeNuccio concluded.
"For the first time, customers no longer need complex
solutions with multiple components running different software environments and
fragmented feature sets. With Concerto OS 7 as the foundation for the Flash
Storage Platform, data protection, data reduction, performance, and scalability
for the vast majority of primary storage needs are met in a single enclosure
running a single operating system managed through a single pane of glass," said
Steve Dalton, Violin's SVP engineering.
7300 Flash Storage Platform: Native, Block-level, Inline
Data Reduction
In addition to integrating a wide range of data services
into the operating system for performance, reliability, and scalability, Violin
has added user selectable, block-level inline de-duplication and compression on
the 7300 FSP to give customers maximum storage efficiency. Delivering up to
217TB of effective capacity in 3 rack units at a data reduction rate of 6:1,
the 7300 FSP supports mixed and multiple workload environments across an entire
range of primary storage requirements.
The 7300 FSP unique combination of high-performance and
efficient data-reduction makes it the leading and most cost-efficient solution
for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments, supporting up to 5,000
persistent virtual desktops per system.
"Our selectable, block-level inline de-duplication and
compression is enabled by default," said Said Ouissal, SVP Product Management
and Strategy at Violin Memory. "This approach maximizes storage efficiency
while allowing users the option of selectively turning off de-duplication and
compression on a per application basis to further optimize performance,
providing the only single platform capable of consolidating tier-0, tier-1 and
tier-2 workloads."
7300E Flash Storage Platform: Pay-As-You-Grow
The Violin 7300E FSP provides the same capabilities and
features as the 7300, but at an entry-point as low as 34TB effective. With
Violin's industry-leading "Pay-As-You-Grow" capacity licensing model the 7300E
can be expanded seamlessly and without any additional hardware upgrades all the
way up to 125TB effective in a compact and cost effective 3 rack unit foot
print.
"The availability of the Flash Storage Platform from
Violin Memory addresses real customer challenges - balancing our client's
storage Capex with their increasingly competitive business requirements," said
Kevin McConnell, Transacts Sales Director. "There is little room for discussion
when you compare the cost of flash to disk and realize that often the ROI on
flash is higher and achieved in shorter time than with traditional enterprise
disk storage."
7700 Flash Storage Platform: Flash for the Largest and
Highest Available Tier-1 Storage Needs
The Violin 7700 FSP is the latest generation of Violin's
high-end modular array line up, engineered for maximum performance, scalability
and the only all-flash platform in the industry that natively delivers a zero
data loss architecture. The 7700 FSP is targeted at large, multi-petabyte and
multi-site deployments for customers that look for ultimate scale, availability
and flexibility.
Powered by Concerto OS 7, the 7700 FSP provides over 1.3
petabytes of effective capacity or serves 20,000 persistent virtual desktops
across six shelves, and adds synchronous replication and stretch cluster
capabilities to the menu of data protection services.
The 7700 FSP also provides an excellent investment
protection path for existing Violin 6000 series and 7000 series all-flash array
(AFA) customers, as these all-flash arrays can now upgrade to a 7700 FSP,
taking advantage of the Concerto OS 7 industry-leading feature set and Symphony
3 revolutionary storage management experience.
Concerto OS 7: The Premier All-Flash Storage Operating
System
The Violin 7300, 7300E and 7700 Flash Storage Platforms
run Violin's Concerto OS 7 storage operating system, the world's first
all-flash storage operating system developed for primary storage. Concerto OS 7
combines the best of vMOS 5, Violin's previous operating system, and the
Concerto data management and inline data-reduction capabilities into a single
and integrated software image that powers all current and future generations of
Violin's Flash Storage Platforms.
"This release of our field-proven, battle-hardened
Concerto OS 7 operating system integrates data reduction, data protection and
business continuity features directly into the OS. It allows users to deploy a
single, easily-managed, flash-based platform as their primary storage solution
below the cost of traditional HDD-based arrays," said Steve Dalton. "We've eliminated the final cost and feature
barriers to mainstream flash and the Flash Storage Platform as the industry's
best choice for primary storage."
Symphony 3: Easy Management of Petabytes on Violin Flash
Storage Platforms and All-Flash Arrays
The Symphony Management Console, bundled with
the 7300 FSP and 7700 FSP, enables simple management of Violin Flash Storage
Platforms from a single, powerful interface. With granular control over
enterprise-grade data services, customized health monitoring, real-time
analytics and advanced reporting, Symphony 3 delivers detailed, automated and
centralized management of a customer's entire Violin environment.