arvato Systems has chosen Violin Memory to host its all-flash storage arrays, deciding against going with one of the “big six” storage suppliers such as HP or IBM.

arvato opted for Violin’s services after it identified the need to provide storage for customer services based on large external databases, owned by Oracle and SAP.

“We needed IOPS higher than 100,000 and believed we would need up to 500,000 IOPS and this was not possible with old fashioned spinning disk storage,” said Jesko Jacobs, senior data center manager at arvato Systems.

The huge IT service provider considered proposals from the likes of IBM, HP, Hitachi and EMC, but decided to concentrate on flash storage specialists instead, hence why Violin Memory was ultimately chosen.

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