StorCentric, a global provider of world-class and award-winning data management solutions, today announced the acquisition of Violin Systems, a technology leader in software-defined all-flash storage solutions. With an ability to offer market-leading performance on commodity infrastructure, the Violin Systems portfolio of all-flash NVMe SSD-based architecture expands StorCentric’s all-flash offerings. Enterprise customers will now be able to address any performance, scale and economic needs of their diverse workloads with one of the most comprehensive all-flash storage portfolios on the market. The acquisition expands the StorCentric portfolio to now cover all enterprise workload demands.
“Our vision at StorCentric is to offer a complete portfolio of data management technologies that support growing enterprises’ needs,” commented Mihir Shah, StorCentric CEO. “Violin fits perfectly into our solutions roadmap, a mid-point between our Nexsan and Vexata all-flash offerings. As a prominent name in the all-flash array market, we aim to build on its track record of innovation.”
With unbeatable price performance and scale, Violin has moved its storage architecture from a historically proprietary hardware architecture to a software architecture with standard x86 servers and SSDs. This fundamental architectural change accelerates product cycles and significantly reduces the amount of investment needed for new product development, while increasing velocity. Violin’s acquisition of X-IO technologies added space efficiency with de-duplication and proactive monitoring. This technology has been integrated into Violin’s offerings for over 18 months.
“The acquisition provides Violin customers with streamlined access to a robust portfolio of data management solutions, backed by StorCentric’s world-class support organization,” said Todd Oseth, Violin Systems President and CEO. “StorCentric’s customers will benefit from the availability of Violin’s all-flash NVMe product for their demanding performance-critical applications at a highly competitive price point.”
StorCentric will continue to invest in Violin’s pioneering all-flash technology development with the goal of achieving industry leading product offerings that align with customers’ changing needs from traditional workloads, to emerging AI/ML environments, to shifting IT operational models.
To ensure a seamless integration, day-to-day sales contacts, operations and customer support at Violin will remain intact.
About Violin Systems
Violin is transforming the storage industry by building high-performance flash storage infrastructure to serve the complex computing needs of the world’s most innovative companies and public sector organizations. The company’s Quartet platform of software, hardware, professional services and customer support optimizes enterprise applications, reduces costs and sparks innovations never thought possible. For more information please visit http://www.violinsystems.com.
About StorCentric
StorCentric provides world-class and award-winning data management solutions for Enterprise and SMB customers. Between its Drobo, Nexsan, Retrospect, and Vexata divisions, the company has shipped over 1M data management solutions and has won over 100 awards for technology innovation and service excellence. StorCentric innovation is centered around customers and their specific data requirements, and delivers quality solutions with unprecedented flexibility, data protection and expandability. For further information, please visit: http://www.storcentric.com.
