Benefits of Using Violin Memory System For ERP Solutions

Business in a Flash

The LEADER for “Business in a Flash”

>350

Customers

§Fortune 500 leaders

§Web/Cloud, Telco, Banking, Retail, Government, Healthcare, etc.

§Wide Variety of Enterprise and Cloud Deployments and Workloads

§1000s deployed

§10’s of Petabytes delivered

§Primary Storage and enterprise application acceleration

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Award Winning Solutions

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Strong Growth

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354

Customers Globally

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Ranging from Fortune Global 500 to

Mid-range firms

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350

Employees with

105

Engineers

Global Customer Success

Public Sector & Education Telecom Media &

Entertainment Healthcare & Medical Technology Retail Services & Manufacturing Finance &

Violin Benefits

Storage

Consolidation

Power and Cooling

Servers

Software Licenses

Application

Performance

Violin Maestro All Flash Caching

Violin Windows All Flash Array

Powerful Customer ROI and TCO

$400,000 savings in operational costs

$1.2M savings on legal fees and $775,000 savings in CAPEX

$500,000 in savings with an accelerated storage platform

ROI in >1 year with 90% reduction in report time for its billing

application

ROI in 11 months; reduced nightly report times by 3X for Oracle E-Business Suite

50% reduction in total cost of ownership

$150,000 savings annually in Operation costs

Up to 80% reduction in cooling, power, space costs, and YoY savings of £200 per VDI unit

“Reduced the cost per IOP by nearly 9X (from £8.88 to £1.03)”

100+

Channel &

Disti Partners

Violin Memory

Field Sales

145

Field Sales

and Technical

Services

33

Countries

Powerful Routes to Market

Channels

Technology

Partners

6000 Flash Array

Amazingly Economical: Legacy Price for Leading

Performance

Operational Costs: Energy, Cooling, Space up to 80% less

Highly Available: No SPOF, Hot Swap HW, FW

Unique Architecture: No SSDs

Maestro All Flash Appliance

Hardware-Accelerated Memory Services Engine

Patented Bayesian SetRanking™ algorithm for Predictive

Analysis

High-speed Interconnect for high-availability

Manages 200Million to 1Billion pages with cache coherency between

HA pair in under 10µsecs.

Windows in a Flash!

Transformative Speed in Storage

Consolidation and cost savings

Increases server utilization

SMB Direct for Microsoft

applications

Enables file server functions

RDMA as a Storage Superhighway

Encryption Dedupe Live Migration Mirroring Scale-Out

Symphony Management

Proactive Health Checks

Advanced Analytics

Personalized Dashboards

Centralized Management

Single Pane of Glass

Extending Our Leadership

innovate

memory IP in software and hardware

expand

grow

drive

enhance

Unmatched Application Performance

5X improvement by reducing Qtr-End report times from 123 hours

down to 25 hours

8X faster creation of virtual

machine instances ERP system is running the Violin platform 4X faster on

Video streaming application runs

10X faster on Violin Memory flash storage

85% improvement in report

turnaround time in NCCD’s Oracle RAC database environment

>2X improvement: “Jobs that took

40 hours now take 18 hours.”

Chris Aiden, Head of Engineering

Reduced processing time for its

mission-critical billing app by 76% Database productivity increases by 40%, allowing for more reports in less time

Reduced 400M patient scans down to 1 minute from 60 minutes.

Violin Flash Array Accelerates Oracle

Solution

• Violin Flash Array

Applications

• Oracle e-business ERP

• Billing systems

Challenges

• Reed Exhibitions, organizes 60 trade events in 19 different industries each year Explosive data growth, storage systems could not handle load and

performance was suffering

• SLAs were suffering “The benefits brought to us by Violin Memory are

more than fixed latency issues and sped up

accounting processes; we have peace of mind that our business is running optimally.”

Yanek Le Bras

Challenge

• Their SAP app runs the IP rights management system for a major part of the organization, used to calculate royalties for its authors.

• Nightly and monthly batch processing runs frequently overran, delaying other mission-critical processes

Violin Flash Array Accelerates SAP

Solution

• Violin Flash Array

Applications

• SAP IPM

“Most importantly we’ve removed the daily impact and the pressing risk to our month end close caused by the ever-lengthening batch processing times required as the data-set grew.”

Mark Harwood, SAP Lifecycle

Violin Flash Array Accelerates Microsoft SQL Server

Challenge

• Microsoft SQL Server database batch jobs took 4.5 hours to complete, with ~20ms latency

• Analytics and backup unable to match pace of explosive data growth

• Slow storage was slowing down business

Solution

• Violin Flash Array

Applications

• Microsoft SQL

“We are the leaders in the automotive flooring market because we focus on

providing the right services at the right time. Violin’s

storage not only accelerated our services to very

demanding automotive dealers, but we see it as an insurance policy for

maintaining that lead in the future.”

Chris Brady, CIO

Challenge

• High storage performance (100,000+ IOPS) in a VDI environment

• Excessive power consumption, constrained power and cooling budget

• Disaster recovery and resilience an issue in VDI

Violin Flash Array Accelerates VMware

Solution

• Violin Flash Array

• HP Blade servers

• 10Gbit network

Applications

• VMware vSphere

• Windows 7, Office 10

“Feedback from our students and Student Union has been excellent. Our architecture has allowed speedy additions of new software such as Adobe Dreamweaver. We have also realized potential software license savings where software can be licensed on a concurrent basis rather than a ‘per seat’ basis.”

Gregor Waddell, Assistant Director

Violin Maestro Masters Microsoft SQL ROI

Applications

• Microsoft SQL

Challenges

• Growth of the eDiscovery database & the increase in query complexity and number of users, was impacting the performance of the eDiscovery system

• SLAs were not being met

• Slower queries meant less productivity from the highly-paid legal staff and delays in new products.

Solution

• Violin Maestro

• Dell R905, R815 and R810

• VMware vSphere Hypervisor™

• Symantec Ent. Vault eDiscovery

“With Maestro, we were able to increase the query capacity of our eDiscovery system by six times and the best part is we didn’t have to change our application, servers or storage.”

Christopher Chan, Director of IT

Challenge

• Cuts in state funding has reduced UC Davis’ budget.

• Creating a flexible, scalable IT infrastructure to lower overall opex without negatively impacting SLAs meant virtualizing their servers

• I/O bottlenecks precluded scaling the virtualized environment, achieving greater server consolidation

Violin Maestro Delivers Oracle Savings

Solution

• Violin Maestro

• VMware vSphere

• Dell 710s

Applications

• Oracle 11g on Sun Sparc tT5220

“We successfully migrated several terabytes worth of non-write heavy virtual machines to SATA storage. Thanks to Maestro, the move was transparent to our users.”

Danh Duong, Infrastructure Services at UC Davis

Violin Maestro with VMware Wins

Solution

• Violin Maestro

• VMware vSphere

• Hypervisor™, Virtual Desktop

• Infrastructure (VDI) 4.0

Challenges

• Virtual servers growth impacted IOPS of shared storage arrays, creating an I/O bottleneck

• Builds were taking longer, impacting SLAs for the IT department

• Slower builds lowered dev productivity and resulted in fewer iterations of the code

40X reduction in latency

“Our developers’ expectations of the game build

environment have risen dramatically! They can now add more features without impacting release dates.”

Dan Mulkiewicz, IT Director