Bloodied and broken AFA pioneer Violin picks itself up and tries again Violin Systems, the renamed Violin Memory, is like a boxer who could have been a contender and is now chasing redemption, getting up off the floor after what should have been a knockout blow. There's a new coaching team in his corner but, wait a minute, the replacement head coach is the former assistant coach and there's no …
As a former Violin Memory employee, I'm convinced that everybody who lived through the Violin experience should get together and write a book. One chapter each, about your most bizarre or memorable experience working at Violin. I would imagine that most ex-employees would find it hard to pick just one.
Apart from being cathartic, it could become an invaluable business guide - as well as a prize-winning dark comedy. Maybe Mr Mellor could write the introduction for us?
I remember their sales reps coming in to see us a few years back, what they put on the table was laughable, even when compared to the years old EMC arrays we were planning to replace. They had nothing other than the buzzword of the time "flash array", it was really just a bloody expensive flash JBOD and not a particularly great one at that, you probably could have bought a shed load of components of Amazon, downloaded FreeNAS and built something better yourself!
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