Violin Systems is a private American company based in Silicon Valley, California, that designs and manufactures computer data storage products.

[4] Its stock price dropped to $2 a share after its largest partner, Hewlett Packard, became a competitor and due to concerns of how quickly it was spending money.

[5] Additionally, five shareholder lawsuits were filed against the company, alleging it did not disclose the financial impact expected from a federal shutdown.

[7] The New York Stock Exchange de-listed Violin Memory shares in October 2016 because its market capitalization had fallen below $15 million.

[12] Violin does not use solid-state drives (SSD), but instead uses a proprietary design referred to as flash fabric architecture (FFA).

[16] vMOS[17][18] is Violin Memory's software layer that integrates with the FFA to provide data protection, management and connectivity to the host.