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Violin Memory Flash Storage Platform Achieves VMware Ready™ Status, Certified with VMware Horizon Fast Track 2.0 Proven Storage
[June 29, 2015]

Violin Memory Flash Storage Platform Achieves VMware Ready™ Status, Certified with VMware Horizon Fast Track 2.0 Proven Storage


Violin Memory®, Inc., (NYSE:VMEM), a global pioneer of award-winning all flash storage platform solutions for primary storage and active workloads, today announced that its Violin 7300 Flash Storage Platform (FSP) has achieved VMware Ready™ status, and has been certified with VMware Horizon Fast Track 2.0 Proven Storage. The VMware Ready designation indicates that after a detailed validation process the Violin 7300 FSP has achieved VMware's highest level of endorsement.

"Violin Memory's 7300 Flash Storage Platform is built with the feature set required to address the performance, cost and scalability challenges faced in any virtual desktop environment," said Amy Love, Chief Marketing Officer, Violin Memory. "With the Violin 7300 FSP achieving VMware Ready status, and certification for VMware Horizon Fast Track 2.0 Proven Storage, end users have a seamless and easy to manage VDI platform that can cost-effectively scale as business requires."

"We are pleased that Violin's 7300 Flash Storage Platform qualifies for the VMware Ready™ logo, signifying to customers that it has met specific VMware interoperability standards and works effectively with VMware infrastructure, which can speed time to value within customer environments," said Howard Hall, senior director, Global Technology (News - Alert) Partnering Organization, VMware.

The VMware Ready program is a co-branding benefit of the Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program that makes it easy for customers to identify partner products certified to work with VMware infrastructure. Customers can use these products and solutions to help lower project risks and realize cost savings over custom built solutions. With thousands of members worldwid, the VMware TAP program includes best-of-breed technology partners with the shared commitment to bring the best expertise and business solution for each unique customer need.



More information on Violin's 7300 Flash Storage Platform can be found at: http://www.vmware.com/products/horizon-view/proven-storage.html

About Violin Memory


Business in a Flash. Violin Memory, the industry pioneer in All Flash Arrays, is the agile innovator, transforming the speed of business with enterprise-grade data services software on its leadership Flash Storage Platforms™. Violin Concerto™ OS 7 delivers complete data protection and data reduction services and consistent high performance in a storage operating system fully integrated with Violin's patented Flash Fabric Architecture™ for cloud, enterprise and virtualized business and mission-critical storage applications. Violin Flash Storage Platforms are designed for primary storage applications at costs below traditional hard disk arrays and accelerate breakthrough CAPEX and OPEX (News - Alert) savings while helping customers build the next generation data center. Violin Flash Storage Platforms and All Flash Arrays enhance business agility while revolutionizing data center economics. Founded in 2005, Violin Memory is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

For more information visit Violin Memory at www.violin-memory.com and follow us @twitter.com/violinmemory

Violin Memory Forward-looking Statement

This public announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding market and customer awareness to its products, the potential benefits that customers may realize as the result of using Violin Memory's products and services, the performance and capabilities of Violin Memory's products and services, and Violin Memory's business plans and strategy. There are a significant number of risks and uncertainties that could affect Violin Memory's business performance and financial results, including those set forth under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," in Violin Memory's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and which is available on the Violin Memory's investor relations website at investor.violin-memory.com and on the SEC's (News - Alert) website at www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements in this public announcement are based on information available to Violin Memory as of the date hereof, and Violin Memory does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.

All Violin Memory news releases (financial, acquisitions, manufacturing, products, technology, etc.) are issued exclusively by Business Wire and are immediately thereafter posted on the company's external website. For more information about Violin Memory, including Violin Memory's trademarks, visit www.violin-memory.com.

VMware and VMware Ready are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.


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