W. Curtis Preston interviews Mick Bradley, VP Technical Solutions & Services EMEA for Violin Memory, at VMWorld 2012 in Barcelona. They talk about Violin’s flash (not SSD) memory array. They discuss the difference between flash and SSD. It’s a solid-state storage array purpose built for the enterprise, with extremely high levels of high availability and endurance, built for tier 1 and tier 2 clients who need a high level of acceleration and performance. They talk about Violin’s algorithms, which are designed to overcome issues with flash, such as sustained performance over a long period of time. They talk about how Violin addresses the program/erase cycle in flash and ensure that they distribute the load so that they get even, predictable wear. They mention Violin’s ability to generate 1 million IOPS in a single VM over a sustained time.

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• W. Curtis Preston
• Mick Bradley
• Violin Memory