Violin Systems Closes X-IO Storage Acquisition
Summary
Violin Systems acquires X-IO’s products and engineering team, as well as retains X-IO’s world-class service process and organization to manage the existing customer installed base of more than 8,000 X-IO arrays.Violin Systems will add X-IO ISE arrays to its flash storage product lineup, meeting the needs of a greater variety of customers and providing the industry with a wide range of solutions spanning from terabytes to multiple petabytes with enterprise-class performance, features, and reliability.Ultimately Violin Systems intends to integrate its own extreme performance technology with X-IO price-performance value to deliver transformational economics for organizations of any size.Consolidated hardware in the data center means less power and cooling requirements, less management and a reduced need for the number of software and application licenses.Violin extreme storage platforms , powered by Concerto OS™ , a fully integrated storage operating system, is the industry leader in the combination of every significant category measured in all-flash arrays: low latency, reliability, affordability, density, scalability and of course extreme performance.