Violin Memory promotes Steve Dalton

Mr. Dalton has more than 30 years of experience in the storage and networking markets, and brings extensive knowledge in compute, storage systems and flash infrastructures. He has designed, built and scaled talented, fast-paced engineering teams to drive productivity and success. In his new role at Violin, he will leverage his experience to develop industry-leading core array products into an expanded product portfolio that addresses the major enterprise datacentre flash market.
“Since joining Violin, Steve has led our software strategy and development teams. As senior vice president of engineering, he will drive the focused efforts of our entire engineering organisation,” said Kevin DeNuccio. “His engineering knowledge of flash combined with his ability to develop and manage effective engineering teams will be critical to Violin’s long-term strategy to provide advanced data management software to the market.”

“Violin’s leading-edge flash technology continues to surpass the capabilities of any offering on the market,” said Steve Dalton. “Violin is well-positioned to differentiate and offer an outstanding and attractive flash solution portfolio.”

Mr. Dalton joined Violin one year ago from Intel where he was the general manager of the company’s datacentre flash software organisation, responsible for flash development for enterprise datacentres. Prior to Intel, Mr. Dalton served as general manager of the File Storage Division at FalconStor Software, where he managed a product portfolio that enabled storage virtualisation and business continuity in heterogeneous environments. Prior to FalconStor, Dalton was general manager and senior vice president of engineering for Quantum where he built the Tiered Storage System Division into a highly profitable, multi-million dollar business centred on the software de-duplication platform (DXi). Earlier in his career, he was vice president of engineering, then chief executive officer of Gadzoox Networks which was successfully sold to Broadcom Corporation. Steve was also one of the original developers to implement the storage architecture for high-speed, 3D graphics I/O at Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Dalton holds multiple patents, and is a published author as well as co-author of a book titled FWB’s Guide to Storage. He holds a B.S. in applied engineering technology from Cal Poly and an M.B.A. in executive management from St. Mary’s College of California.