2. § Team of Flash industry pioneers
§ Flash Memory Arrays Since 2009
§ 4th generation products
Founded in
’05
§ Designed for Tier 1
§ Worldwide support capability
§ Proven industry-leading performance
Next Gen Tier 1
§ Toshiba: NAND Flash Inventor with close R&D collaboration
§ Leading strategic investors: Toshiba, SAP, Juniper…
§ Fortune 500 leaders
§ Aggressively adding logos
§ Web, Telco, Banking, Retail, Govt., Healthcare, etc.

3. Memory Arrays Windows Flash Array Memory Services
Legacy Storage Migration,
Tiering, Caching, Protection,
Data Reduction
Enterprise Applications on
Memory Storage
Predictive, Automated
and Centralized Control
Violin Symphony
Scale-Out Storage for
Microsoft Platforms
MLC
SLC
DRAM
Data Management Services
Memory Services
Data Access Protocols
Central
Mgmt
Standards-
based
Interfaces
Violin Memory
Operating
System
Comprehensive
Memory
Services
Gen 4

5. 3 Par San Arrays
Everyone
Else
§ Legacy architecture
§ SSD instead of HDD
§ Disk-plus performance
§ Latency in milliseconds
§ Local Flash Management
Violin Memory Flash Array
Violin Memory
Flash Array
§ Built from ground-up
§ Engineered for flash
§ Memory-like performance
§ Latency in microseconds
§ Global Flash Management

7. CPU Cycle
with Disk:
t
80%
Wait
20%
Work
CPU Cycle
with Violin:
5%
Wait
95%
Work
t
Up to 10X Work In the Same Time
I/O Wait I/O Wait

8. File Client File Server
SMB ServerSMB Client
User
Kernel
Application
Disk
R-NIC
Network w/
RDMA support
NTFS
SCSI
Network w/
RDMA support
R-NIC

9. Hyper-V
Failover share - connections and handles lost,
temporary stall of IO
2
2
Normal operation1
Connections and handles auto-recovered
Application IO continues with no errors3
1 3
fsshare fsshare

12. ServerClient
SMB Encryption

13. File
Server
SMB Direct
Client
RDMA
NIC
SMB Direct
Ethernet or
InfiniBand
SMB
Server
SMB
Client
Memory Memory
NDKPINDKPI
RDMA
NIC
RDMA

14. 0.55
0.5
0.3
60
55
40

16. Cluster
in a box
WFA is NOT
Cluster in a box

17. Transforma1ve
Speed
in
Storage
Enables
consolida1on
and
cost
savings
Increases
server
u1liza1on
SMB
Direct
for
MicrosoA
applica1ons
Enables
file
server
func1ons
RDMA
as
a
Storage
Superhighway
Encryp1on
Dedupe
Live
Migra1on
Mirroring
Scale-­‐Out

20. SQL Server
OLTP DWH BI SharePoint
Azure/Private
Cloud
Hyper-V

21. Violin is #1 in the Flash
Storage Array Market
Up
to
1mill
IOPs
4K
IOPS
in
3U
Sub-­‐millisecond
latencies

22. § Speed is key —
latency is the measure
§ MS example of
enterprise use of
Hyper-V
§ Price-performance is
important
§ Use dedupe and
compression on ad
serving
§ Turn ad serving
requests around quickly
§ Scale to massive I/O
load that is latency
sensitive
§ Demonstrate great
economics
§ Violin Windows Flash
Array
§ Enable SMB Direct to
support Hyper-V
workloads
§ Use Windows Server
2012 R2 features like
clustering arrays
§ Fast ad loading
§ Scalable for search
growth
§ Random performance
allows superior
metadata management
§ Least expensive way to
deliver the desired
business result