Violin Memory offers starter kits to tempt flash storage virgins

Violin Memory has two flash array starter bundles to give enterprises "an easy and affordable way" into all-flash array performance. Both are based on the high-end FSP 7700 all-flash array, which can provide, Violin says, two million IOPS. The Scalable Starter Kit has: Two Violin FSP 7700 Modular Scalable Array Controllers …

[D P Duck]

How important is array level synchronous replication these days?

When I consider all the synchronization techniques being introduced at higher levels in the I/O stack, I wonder if this feature of the new Violin kit is really a differentiating factor that will encourage new customers to go for the kit? Doesn't it just double up the cabling that would be required for a vMotion or Software Defined Storage type of environment?

Perhaps there are specific high performance applications that might benefit from this array-array synchronization, but I'm not sure it is going to boost sales enough to get the firm back into favour with the stock market.

[Flammi]

Re: How important is array level synchronous replication these days?

I'm certainly not saying that syncrep on array level makes a lot of sense, but in some countries (especially Germany and Austria) people demand it.

Violin simply uses FalconStore to do it. No secret sauce...

[Anonymous Coward]

Kick the can down the road

Will this company just die already?

[Flammi]

Re: Kick the can down the road

Agreed. Dead man walking!