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Consortium Health Plans Future-Proofs its Data Center and Drives Seamless Business Operations with Violin Flash Storage Platform
[July 30, 2015]

Consortium Health Plans Future-Proofs its Data Center and Drives Seamless Business Operations with Violin Flash Storage Platform


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 Consortium Health Plans, a national sales and marketing organization held by 21 Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® (BCBS) companies, has selected Violin's Flash Storage Platform™ (FSP) to future-proof existing data centers and provide business continuity services. To continue to position Blue as the preferred choice for national accounts and keep pace with the rapid growth of its customer base, Consortium Health Plans turned to Violin to create a unique data center infrastructure with the scalability and performance required to meet the high demands of the healthcare industry's insurance claims intake systems.

"Consortium Health Plans is focused on BCBS national account growth, and in order to best serve our customers we required an optimized storage solution to drive tier 1 performance as well as the flexibility of scale as our business demands increase," said Mike Underman, senior vice president of national account services, Consortium Health Plans. "Violin's Flash Storage Platform solutions integrated seamlessly into our data center environment and delivered data protection features and the scalability we required for our customers."

Consortium Health Plans implemented Violin Flash Storage Platform technology to drive business-critical application performance, including identifying and reporting on Blue Plan capabilities and providing fast, efficient and consistent Request for Information (RFI (News - Alert)) responses. Leveraging Violin's Concerto OS 7, the Violin FSP enables full transparency for all workloads and environments, data encryption at rest and in-flight processing to improve performance, and comprehensive data management services for Consortium Health Plans customers.

"In order to drive business into the future, Consortium Health Plans understood that an all flash solution would best meet their need for a zero data loss architecture delivering tier 1 performance and scalability," said Amy D. Love, chief marketing officer, Violin Memory. "Violin provided the best combination of flash technology and business continuity services to meet Consortium's requirements for data center needs today and moving forward."

Violin all flash optimized solutions transform the speed of the healthcare insurance usiness, combining a wide variety of comprehensive enterprise class data services that encompass data protection, storage efficiency and business continuity with performance and density under a dual-everything Flash Fabric Architecture™. Healthcare insurance providers can intelligently integrate optimized all-flash storage technologies at the cost of disk to lower the acquisition cost and TCO.



About Consortium Health Plans

Consortium Health Plans provides strategic market intelligence, strong market relationships and leading-edge sales tools to position Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans as the preferred choice for national accounts. There are 21 member Plans in the Consortium. Consortium is an independent company that provides marketing assistance to the Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® Association and its independently licensed member companies. For more information visit: http://www.consortiumhealthplans.com/web/guest/home.


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. 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 and others 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.

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