Sweet music from Concerto

Violin Memory®, Inc. has announced global availability of enterprise data services software on the Concerto™ 7000 All Flash Array.

The comprehensive data services software includes synchronous and asynchronous replication and stretch metro cluster capabilities. Storage snapshots, thin provisioning, LUN and capacity expansion, as well as advanced data protection and storage scaling are also available. These enterprise data services will enhance business agility allowing enterprises and cloud providers to consolidate data centre resources and open up new business opportunities.

“The Concerto 7000 All Flash Array helps our customers deliver ‘Business in a Flash’, by transforming IT resources into competitive assets that create new possibilities based on the performance, data protection, and transactional capabilities we design into our all-flash solutions,” said Violin Memory CEO Kevin DeNuccio.

Several critical elements of Violin’s Concerto enterprise data services software, including continuous data protection, WAN optimisedreplication and in-flight encryption can all be configured on a LUN-by-LUN basis, giving customers the ability to tailor the Concerto solution to their unique deployment and data centre requirements.

Granular control of software features is important to support a varied, heavy enterprise multi-application workload and move beyond pointproducts only appropriate for single applications. The breadth and granularmanageability of the Concerto 7000 software provides the optimal platform formixed and multiple workloads in enterprise and cloud environments.

The Concerto 7000 All Flash Array hardware platform, based on Violin’s Flash Fabric Architecture™, delivers micro-second latency and lower cost-per-transaction for demanding mixed and multiple cloud, enterprise and virtualised applications. The result for IT organisations and their line-of-business customers can be up to 20x faster application response times while using 90 per cent less floor space, power and cooling.

“Vendors need to provide a true enterprise class offering built around flash optimised architectures. The hallmark of today’s enterprise class workhorses is their ability to host mixed multiple workloads while delivering the reliability, availability, scalability and management features that data centre applications require,” said Eric Burgener, IDC analyst. “Once vendors deliver mature flash-based products with these features the all-flash data centre becomes a distinct reality.”

The Violin Concerto 7000 All Flash Array is now available worldwide. Raw capacity scales to 280TB in a fully configured, super-dense 18RU, low power footprint. Customers can also upgrade to these powerful business continuity, high-resiliency, efficiency, protection and scaling capabilities on their current 6000 series all-flash array solutions with the Concerto 7000 upgrade kit for the 6000 All Flash Array family.

Concerto 7000 features include:

Business Continuity
· Remote asynchronous replication
· Synchronous replication
· Local/Metro
· Zero RPO and RTO for stretch clusters
· Automated App DR management
· WAN optimised replication
· Consistency Groups for replication

Data Protection
· Snapshots (app & crash consistent)
· Consistency Groups for snapshots
· Continuous data protection
· Transparent LUN mirroring
· Backup app integration

Data Scaling
· Scale-up to 280TB raw
· Capacity pooling across shelves
· Online expansion of capacity
· Online LUN expansion
· Single name space across shelves

Data Efficiency
· Snapshots (app consistent, writable)
· Thin Provisioning
· Thin Clones