VIOLIN Insights

IDC's Eric Burgener discusses the four key feature sets needed to most effectively enable mixed workload consolidation in enterprise storage.

Today, I am exceptionally proud and excited to announce the availability of our new Flash Storage Platform (FSP), powered by Concerto OS 7 and managed by Symphony 3.

Let’s say you own a Ferrari… No, wait. Let’s say I own a Ferrari… a 458 Speciale… Black… Let’s say that I paid about the same for this Ferrari as you would expect to pay for a nice Honda Accord and that I plan to make it my primary “every day” car. And let’s say my Ferrari has some “special features”.

Greetings!

Greetings!

What is Firmware?  Think of firmware as software for hardware.  Good firmware allows the full expression of the underlying hardware’s capabilities. Good firmware allows for optimization.  In the case of an all-flash array, good firmware handles low-level data movement, RAID, Garbage Collection, data placement, data recovery, and data integrity.