(VentureBeat) Virident is announcing today that is has raised $21 million to launch its next-generation flash memory for enterprises. The funding is a rare one for a chip maker, but Virident is playing in one of the hottest parts of the market, where data centers use more flash memory in their servers in order to reduce power consumption and improve their ability to process an enormous amount of data quickly...Read More

(GigaOM) Virident, the PCIe solid state drive company that competes head to head with Fusion-io, has raised $21 million in Series C funding. This round includes contributions from new investors Intel Capital and Cisco Systems and was led by Globespan Capital Partners. Existing backers Sequoia Capital and Artiman Ventures also chipped in, bringing the total venture investment in Virident to about $50 million, said Kumar Ganapathy, co-founder and CEO...Read More

I have been following Virident for a long time (e.g. http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/06/15/virident-tachion-new-player-on-flash-pci-e-cards-market/). They have great PCIe Flash cards based on SLC NAND. I always thought that Virident needed to come up with an MLC card, and I am happy to see they have finally done so. At Virident’s request, I performed an evaluation of their MLC card to assess how it handles MySQL workload. As I am very satisfied with the results, I wish to share my findings in this post. But first, I wish to offer an overview of the card...Read More

TMCnet Group Editorial Director Erik Linask got to speak to startup solid state storage provider Virident Systems, Inc. as part of TMC’s “On the Road” Series in San Jose. Virident, founded five years ago in Silicon Valley, is focused on creating enterprise-class solutions based on Storage Class Memory, a class of disruptive technologies that includes flash memory...Read More

(Reuters) - Competition is brewing in the small but booming market for flash memory used in corporate data centers, and analysts foresee a wave of consolidation as larger players move in...Read More

While far from the glory days of a decade or so back, there is a healthy abundance of storage startups around today. Though hardly a comprehensive list, here are some interesting candidates for which cloud computing, solid state drives (SSDs), big data and VMware-based virtualization is providing the basis of much of the underlying innovation...Read More

Solid State Drives (SSD) continue to be super-hot, as the aisles of Storage Networking World (SNW) demonstrated earlier this month. It seemed that half the vendors were touting their latest flash products...Read More

Virident Systems announced that customers and partners around the world are capitalizing on its PCI Express (PCIe) solid state drives (SSDs), which eliminate I/O bottlenecks in today's applications...Read More