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Violin Memory Showcases the World’s First Microsoft Windows All-Flash Cluster-in-a-Box Storage Platform

Windows Server 2012 “Cluster-in-a-Box” Accelerates the Move to Private Clouds

Violin Memory, Inc., provider of one of the world’s fastest and most scalable flash Memory Arrays, and Microsoft Corporation are showcasing at Microsoft TechEd (located at Pavilion Kiosk 21), the world’s first all-flash “Cluster-in-a-Box” Solution with Windows Server 2012 running natively on the Violin 6000 platform. With increased demands placed on today’s IT departments to meet end user needs for data in near real-time the release of Windows Server 2012 is a welcome relief for the enterprise customer. Using Violin Memory Arrays, Windows Server 2012 can scale to address the needs of the largest and most demanding enterprise IT departments.

IT departments in data intensive markets like government, financial, Web and media, are challenged with delivering business critical data to end users anywhere and anytime.  Infrastructure consolidation and private cloud deployments have enabled IT departments to address some of these challenges. However, as more applications move to a hosted or virtualized model, disk-based tier-1 storage simply cannot scale performance to maximize the value of solutions like Windows Server 2012. The “Cluster-in-a-Box” solution from Violin and Microsoft eases the transition to a more service-oriented infrastructure that delivers the highest levels of performance, efficiency and reliability.

“We are thrilled to collaborate with Microsoft to showcase the power of Windows Server 2012 on Violin flash Memory Arrays,” said Don Basile, CEO of Violin Memory. “The 6000 platform delivers some of the highest levels of performance, reliability and efficiency to meet the needs of the most demanding enterprise IT environments. Windows “Cluster-in-a-box” is the foundation for a set of solutions such as continuously available file server, database-in-a-box and virtual private cloud-in-a-box.”

“We’re excited to see companies such as Violin Memory demonstrate their capabilities with a “Cluster-in-a-Box” solution on Windows Server 2012 at the Microsoft Partner Pavilion at Microsoft TechEd in Orlando this week,” said Thomas Pfenning, general manager of Microsoft Windows File Server Foundation.

It’s great to see further examples of Violin Memory Arrays in use and be able to illustrate their levels of performance in context, in this case talking about Microsoft Windows 2012 clustering, which is very cool. Violin Memory Arrays continue to be of interest to me for a number of reasons and I’m working on some content about Violin Memory over the next few weeks, very cool and well done to Violin Memory for the demonstration at Microsoft TecEd!

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