Really?
Violin is conceding FusionIO was right in their market approach? Makes you wonder whose going to be next and surrender their pure appliance play to server deployed.
Flash storage array shipper Violin Memory is bringing out a Velocity line of PCIe server flash cards and strengthening its relationship with investor Toshiba, which owns NAND chip fabs. Violin Memory ships 3000 and 6000 models of its networked all-flash array technology. They can have PCIe connections but the array's primary …
Violin and FusionIO are both relative new comers. Texas Memory Systems, recently acquired by IBM, is the originator of all this tech with their RamSan products. PCIe, MLC or SLC, full PCIe SAN arrays with all of the SAN functionality and so forth. This has all been around for about 30 years.