Toshiba has made a significant investment in Violin Memory, which specializes in scalable memory appliances for large dataset applications, according to the California-headquartered startup.
Violin claimed its patent-pending, system-level aggregation technology will harness Toshiba's NAND flash chips to deliver enterprise class scale, reliability and serviceability. Violin's innovative solutions are integrated and tested with leading system and application software to provide a complete solution to its customers.
"We believe our leading edge technology will enable Violin Memory's flash memory arrays in the performance-driven enterprise data centers," said Scott Nelson, VP, Memory Business Unit at Toshiba America Electronic Components.
"The addition of capital and access to Toshiba's technology and strategic supply adds the final critical component to allow us to provide large quantities of our memory arrays to OEMs, end customers, distribution and solution partners, including our recently announced global FalconStor relationship," said Violin CEO Don Basile.
Founded in 2005, Violin provides scalable memory appliances for enterprise applications ranging from database, analytics, data warehousing, SAN acceleration, Web caching and any other applications that require very high IOPS and predictable low latency.