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Violin Memory Prices New PCIe Chip to Win, Teams with Toshiba to Streamline Supply

Now for the specs.  Sustained performance using 4KB blocks measures at 120,000 IOPS for the 1.37 card, 1000, 270,000 and 540,000 IOPS for the 2.75, 5.5 and 11TB cards.  This figure jumps above one million IOPS in setups where 512KB blocks are used instead. The new Violin chips run barebone firmware that supports Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and VMware.  Compatibility for management software from other vendors will probably roll out with future patches. The other important feature of Velocity, beside the performance and support, is that the chips are completely self-contained. This means that software can be booted faster and without help from the host server, something that the competition – …

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