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How Violin Flash Arrays Increase Performance

Timothy Valihora works as a management consultant and the president of TVMG Consulting, Inc.

In his role an IIS Parallel extender performance tuner – Mr. Valihora has utilized many different storage devices.

Persistent RAM:
Flash Arrays provide a convenient way for businesses to store their customer data. Like any other type of technology, some arrays operate faster, and thus more efficiently, than others. Violin Memory provides storage solutions that strike a balance between affordability and performance, and Violin flash arrays are no exception.

Violin’s flash storage platform simplifies storage by compressing data and removing the requirement of having a spindle writing to a physical medium. In tandem, applications perform faster, simultaneously saving businesses valuable storage capacity while offering them better performance. The company achieves this efficiency by cutting back on the power consumed by older storage devices – including solid state drives, as well as optimizing processing throughput.

In recent benchmark tests, Mr. Valihora was able to prove that an IBM InfoSphere DataStage PX job which was designed to sort 1 billion rows of data, performed 255% better on Flash (Violin) than Isilon Fast NFS.