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Violin Systems Closes X-IO Storage Acquisition
[November 12, 2018]

Violin Systems Closes X-IO Storage Acquisition


Violin® Systems LLC:





WHO:

 

Violin® Systems LLC

 

WHAT:

Completes acquisition of X-IO Storage, developer of the popular Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) flash and hybrid storage array product lines. Violin Systems acquires X-IO's products and engineering team, as well as retains X-IO's world-class service process and organization to manage the existing customer installed base of more than 8,000 X-IO arrays.

 

WHEN:

Effective immediately, November 8, 2018

 

WHY:

Violin Systems will add X-IO ISE arrays to its flash storage product lineup, meeting the needs of a greater variety of customers and providing the industry with a wide range of solutions spanning from terabytes to multiple petabytes with enterprise-class performance, features, and reliability. Ultimately Violin Systems intends to integrate its own extreme performance technology with X-IO price-performance value to deliver transformational economics for organizations of any size.

 

Violin's extreme performance platform enables a dramatic infrastructure cost savings and cost avoidance of 40 percent or more by reducing the number of servers and cores needed. Consolidated hardware in the data center means less power and cooling requirements, less management and a reduced need for the number of software and application licenses. With dramatic improvement in application performance, there is an equally dramatic improvement in the experience of the applications' end users, resulting in improved customer satisfaction. Combined with Violin's performance advantages, customers are able to realize dramatic competitive advantages while simultaneously saving money.

About Violin Systems

Violin, the disruptive innovator in Extreme Performance Storage, is revolutionizing how businesses operate by enabling storage technology to be Instrumental to their company by changing the SLAs and capabilities of information and application storage infrastructure. Violin extreme storage platforms, powered by Concerto OS™, a fully integrated storage operating system, is the industry leader in the combination of every significant category measured in all-flash arrays: low latency, reliability, affordability, density, scalability and of course extreme performance. With tightly integrated data services, Violin storage platforms provide a unique and leading combination of data protection, business continuity, and data reduction services in a flexible, delivering significant CAPEX and OPEX (News - Alert) savings. Founded in 2005, Violin is headquartered in San Jose, California.

For more information visit violinsystems.com and Violin Insight blog
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