Tata to add Violin All Flash solution to its portfolio

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 17, 2014 — Violin Memory®, Inc., (NYSE: VMEM) a leading provider of all-flash storage arrays and appliances delivering application solutions for enterprises, today announced that it has entered into a strategic reseller partnership with Tata Technologies. Tata Technologies will integrate and configure high-speed flash array solutions into their global product lifecycle management (PLM) customer base looking to enhance the performance of their business critical applications.

“Our customers reflect organizations who rely on product data and lifecycle management to drive increased innovation and faster time-to-market. Violin’s proven success in deploying large all-flash arrays in high velocity database applications represents a tremendous opportunity for accelerated PLM performance,” said Joe MacLellan, Associate VP, Partners at Tata Technologies.

“Applications like product lifecycle management, and increases in virtualization lend themselves perfectly to the unique performance, density, and resiliency benefits associated with Violin Enterprise All Flash Arrays,” said Don Milner, Regional VP, Sales at Violin Memory. “No organization is better suited to integrate Violin’s award-winning All Flash Array solutions into the enterprise product environment than Tata Technologies.”

Tata Technologies will be featuring Violin All Flash Array solutions at PLM World in Orlando, FL. June 16-19, Booth #7 and will be hosting a series of workshops on what users should and should not expect from this rapidly expanding high performance computing solution.

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About Tata Technologies

Tata Technologies is a company of innovators, specialists in the design engineering space, who apply cutting-edge technology to provide a competitive advantage to customers in the manufacturing sector. The company, founded in 1989, is a strategic partner for developing complete vehicles (VPD group), engineering subsystems and components (E&D), managing the NPI process and collaborative engineering (PLM), and tying together information created and used throughout the extended manufacturing enterprise (ESG). Tata Technologies is headquartered in Singapore, with regional headquarters offices in the United States (Novi, Michigan), India (Pune) and the UK (Coventry). The company has a combined global work force of more than 6,500 employees serving clients worldwide from facilities in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. http://www.tatatechnologies.com.

About Violin Memory

Business in a Flash. Violin Memory transforms the speed of business with high performance, always available, low cost management of critical business information and applications. Violin’s All Flash optimized solutions accelerate breakthrough CAPEX and OPEX savings for building the next generation data center. Violin’s Flash Fabric Architecture™ (FFA) speeds data delivery with chip-to-chassis performance optimization that achieves lower consistent latency and cost per transaction for Cloud, Enterprise and Virtualized mission-critical applications. Violin's All Flash Arrays and Appliances, and enterprise data management software solutions enhance agility and mobility while revolutionizing data center economics. Founded in 2005, Violin Memory is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit  www.violin-memory.com. Follow us on Twitter at  twitter.com/violinmemory.

Violin Memory Forward-looking Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements with respect to Tata Technologies’ integration and configuration of Violin’s products into Tata Technologies’ customer base to enhance performance of applications, the possible increased performance and other benefits that might be realized by Tata Technologies’ customers resulting from the use of all-flash arrays in database applications, and statements relating to Violin Memory’s business plans and strategy. Additional risks and uncertainties that could affect Violin Memory's business performance and financial results are included under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," in Violin Memory's annual report on Form 10-Q, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and which is available on company’s investor relations website at  investor.violin-memory.com and on the SEC's website at  www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements in this public announcement are based on information available to the Company 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.