Bankrupted #allflash pioneer’s CEO says company has learned the lessons of its demise and is planning file, object, #softwaredefinedstorage and a careful entry into the #NVMe market #Flashstorage pioneer @Violin Memory has emerged from bankruptcy and is aiming for new file, cloud and object access additions to its products in 2018 plus software-defined storage, with NVMe systems planned for 2019.
“The company went public [in 2013], money was spent and there wasn’t much focus on the future,” he said.
“The company was run by smart people and they thought they could conquer the world. But successful companies should be prepared to be copied and they missed out on getting to the maturation phase.”
Key products for Violin are still the 7650 and 7450 all-flash arrays launched last September and the high-availability stretch cluster that can link Violin instances at up to 100km.
Building on this, in the second quarter out of bankruptcy, Abbasi said Violin has “regained the confidence of customers”, provided cashflow with “a positive line of sight to profit” and is providing 24/7 support. It is also looking at software acquisitions, he said.
The company is now planning its next product phases, said Abbasi. By mid-2018, Violin plans to introduce file and block access storage on the same platform. Currently, its products are block access only.
By the end of next year, it aims to provide access to the public cloud as a tier of storage, storage quality of service policies, products delivered as software-defined storage and object storage capabilities.
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