SANTA CLARA, Calif. -

In an effort to help used-car managers complete the floor-planning process as quickly as possible, NextGear Capital recently tapped Violin Memory, a provider of persistent memory-based storage solutions, to accelerate the delivery of key services to the company's customer base of more than 17,000 dealers in North America.

Using the Violin 6000 Series Flash Memory Array, NextGear Capital reportedly achieved up to 1,000 percent improvement in SQL database performance, allowing the to maintain leadership in the inventory finance solutions industry.

Officials explained that when two large SQL database servers were slowing down business, NextGear Capital needed a temporary high-performance home for the data. The company turned to Violin Memory, officials indicated that performance immediately improved, even before conducting a problem determination on the database.

The first deployment to accelerate its SQL database was so successful, NextGear Capital ordered another Violin 6000 Series Flash Memory Array. As a result, the company reduced latency from as much as a second to consistently less than a millisecond.

"We are the leaders in the automotive flooring market because we focus on providing the right services at the right time," NextGear Capital chief information officer Chris Brady said. "Violin's storage not only accelerated our services to very demanding automotive dealers, but we see it as an insurance policy for maintaining that lead in the future."

Violin 6000 Series Flash Memory Arrays are designed to meet the performance, availability and scalability requirements of the most demanding database applications.

"A sustainable competitive advantage can be one of the most difficult things in the world to attain," said Narayan Venkat, vice president of product management at Violin Memory. "Violin continues to push the envelope to deliver memory-based storage solutions that enable our customers' business to win."