Violin Memory Flash Storage Platform Achieves VMware Ready Status, Certified With VMware Horizon Fast Track 2.0 Proven Storage

Violin Memory, Inc., a global pioneer of award-winning all flash storage platform solutions for primary storage and active workloads, recently announced that its Violin 7300 Flash Storage Platform (FSP) has achieved VMware Ready status, and has been certified with VMware Horizon Fast Track 2.0 Proven Storage. The VMware Ready designation indicates that after a detailed validation process the Violin 7300 FSP has achieved VMware’s highest level of endorsement.

“Violin Memory’s 7300 Flash Storage Platform is built with the feature set required to address the performance, cost and scalability challenges faced in any virtual desktop environment,” said Amy Love, Chief Marketing Officer, Violin Memory. “With the Violin 7300 FSP achieving VMware Ready status, and certification for VMware Horizon Fast Track 2.0 Proven Storage, end users have a seamless and easy to manage VDI platform that can cost-effectively scale as business requires.”

“We are pleased that Violin’s 7300 Flash Storage Platform qualifies for the VMware Ready logo, signifying to customers that it has met specific VMware interoperability standards and works effectively with VMware infrastructure, which can speed time to value within customer environments,” said Howard Hall, senior director, Global Technology Partnering Organization, VMware.

The VMware Ready program is a co-branding benefit of the Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program that makes it easy for customers to identify partner products certified to work with VMware infrastructure. Customers can use these products and solutions to help lower project risks and realize cost savings over custom built solutions. With thousands of members worldwide, the VMware TAP program includes best-of-breed technology partners with the shared commitment to bring the best expertise and business solution for each unique customer need.

More information on Violin’s 7300 Flash Storage Platform can be found at: http://www.vmware.com/products/horizon-view/proven-storage.html

About Violin Memory
Business in a Flash. Violin Memory, the industry pioneer in All Flash Arrays, is the agile innovator, transforming the speed of business with enterprise-grade data services software on its leadership Flash Storage Platforms. Violin Concerto OS 7 delivers complete data protection and data reduction services and consistent high performance in a storage operating system fully integrated with Violin’s patented Flash Fabric Architecture for cloud, enterprise and virtualized business and mission-critical storage applications. Violin Flash Storage Platforms are designed for primary storage applications at costs below traditional hard disk arrays and accelerate breakthrough CAPEX and OPEX savings while helping customers build the next generation data center. Violin Flash Storage Platforms and All Flash Arrays enhance business agility while revolutionizing data center economics. Founded in 2005, Violin Memory is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit www.violin-memory.com.