nyse vmem founded 2005 1 headquarters santa clara california u.s. key people ceo kevin denuccio website www.violin memory.com violin memory is a public american company based in silicon valley california that designs and manufactures computer data storage products . contents 1 corporate history 2 technology 3 products 4 references 5 external links corporate history edit the company was founded in 2005 as violin technologies by donpaul stephens and jon bennett in iselin new jersey . citation needed series a financing valued over 10 million was raised in 2010 . two more rounds of financing in 2011 raised an additional 75 million . corporate investors included juniper networks and toshiba america electronic components taec . it was based in mountain view california around this time . series d financing 80 million in march 2012 was led by sap ventures arm of sap ag and included highland capital gsv and others . the reported valuation was over 800 million . 2 3 violin memory went public in september 2013 raising 162 million at a price of 9 a share . 4 4 its stock price dropped to 2 a share after its largest partner hewlett packard became a competitor and due to concerns of how quickly it was spending money . 4 the company experienced losses of 34 million the following year and the board called for the resignation of the ceo . 5 additionally five shareholder lawsuits were filed against the company alleging it did not disclose the financial impact expected from a federal shutdown . 4 in december 2013 the company terminated ceo basile 6 replacing him with kevin denuccio in february 2014 . citation needed technology edit violin memory does not use solid state drives ssd but instead uses a proprietary design referred to as flash fabric architecture 7 ffa . the ffa is multiple layers of technologies that consists of a mesh of thousands of nand flash dies violin intelligent memory modules vimm 8 that organize the mesh of flash dies vimms that are integrated into a proprietary switched architecture violin memory s proprietary vraid 9 for fault tolerance . in september 2011 violin announced the 6000 series all silicon shared flash memory storage arrays . 10 vmos 11 12 is violin memory s software layer that integrates with the ffa to provide data protection management and connectivity to the host . products edit the violin 7000 series includes application aware snapshots continuous data protection synchronous replication asynchronous replication and metro cluster functionality . 13 14 15 on dec 1st 2015 the violin memory fsp 7250 and 7600 were announced . the violin fsp 7250 is optimized with always on data reduction to provide an entry level point below 100 000 into all flash storage . 16 the 7700 17 series can scale up to ten 6000 or 7000 series arrays for up to 700tb of raw capacity or 3.5 pb with deduplication 18 the violin 6000 series 19 all flash arrays include the 6600 6200 and 6100 . the 6600 20 is based on slc flash and offers 17.5 tb of capacity . the 6200 21 offers flash performance at capacities from 17.5 to 70tb . the 6100 22 is a smaller array at lower price of entry with a pay as you grow 23 option . the windows flash array wfa 24 uses microsoft s storage server 2012 r2 instead of vmos . jointly developed with microsoft the wfa supports microsoft s smb direct protocol and is an optimized nas solution for microsoft 25 references edit violin memory company . violin memory . retrieved 2011 07 28 . violin memory raises 50m brings valuation to 800m . silicon valley business journal . march 30 2012 . retrieved august 14 2013 . notice of exempt offering of securities . edgar . us securities and exchange commission . march 29 2012 . retrieved august 14 2013 . a b c d bort julie december 11 2013 . newly public company violin memory is in turmoil and the lawsuits are flying . retrieved february 10 2015 . can a new ceo pull violin memory out of its current slump . the register . january 7 2014 . retrieved february 10 2015 . struggling flash storage firm violin memory fires its ceo . venturebeat . december 16 2013 . retrieved february 3 2014 . michael cusanelli june 27 2014 . violin memory delivers business in a flash with concerto 7000 . thevarguy.com . antony adshead october 12 2012 . violin a proudly proprietary storage vendor ... . computerweekly.com . chin fah heoh march 8 2012 . we raid vraid . storage gaga blog . robin harris april 11 2012 . violin s clean sheet architecture . storage mojo blog . retrieved september 17 2013 . brian beeler august 13 2012 . violin pairs with symantec to deliver data management tools . storagereview.com . chris mellor august 14 2012 . symantec violin in no strings fling for flash array software . the register . violin concerto 7000 all flash array ; performance packed with data services pdf . product profile . taneja group . june 2014 . nick heath june 24 2014 . violin memory gives its flash storage an enterprise friendly makeover . zdnet . steve wexler june 25 2014 . violin in the data center no one can hear you scream . it trends & analysis . sheryl anderson dec 1 2015 . expanded flash storage platform from violin provides needed solutions for customers seeking optimization for extreme performance ; primary storage solutions ; and entry level capacity . violin memory press release . peter williams june 26 2014 . violin violin memory back in all flash storage tune with new data management strings . bloor . pedro hernandez june 24 2014 . violin plays a flashy concerto with new 7000 array . infostor . three new all flash arrays 6100 17.5 tb 26tb and 35tb revealed by violin memory . storagenewsletter.com press release . storagenewsletter.com . august 12 2014 . timothy prickett morgan october 18 2013 . violin turns flash arrays into blazing clusters . enterprisetech . carol sliwa may 2014 . violin 6000 arrays feature proprietary flash modules memory fabric . searchsolidstatestorage.com . chris mellor august 4 2014 . violin strings up cheaper instrument 17.5 tb flash box for 100k change . the register . carol sliwa july 15 2014 . violin storage adds wfa models pay as you grow option . searchsolidstatestorage.com . violin memory interview . truebit.tv podcast . w. curtis preston . april 28 2014 . building high performance storage for hyper v cluster on scale out file servers using violin windows flash arrays . white paper . microsoft . october 2014 . external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title violin memory & oldid 734003384 categories computer storage companiescompanies listed on the new york stock exchangehidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 11 august 2016 at 14 10 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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