Virident Systems is a computer systems company headquartered in Milpitas, California

Milpitas, California

Milpitas is a city in Santa Clara County, California. It is a suburb of the major city of San Jose, California. It is located with San Jose to its south and Fremont to its north, at the eastern end of State Route 237 and generally between Interstates 680 and 880 which run roughly north/south...

, that designs and builds Storage Class Memory (SCM) storage solutions and aims to redefine memory-storage hierarchy. The company was founded in June 2006 and initially received funding from Artiman Ventures, Accel India and Spansion

Spansion

Spansion Inc. is a Flash memory chip maker that designs, develops and manufactures NOR flash memory products. The company has over 3,400 employees and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Spansion is a former joint-venture between AMD and Fujitsu....

 Inc.

Products

Virident's first NAND flash

Flash memory

Flash memory is a non-volatile computer storage chip that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. It was developed from EEPROM and must be erased in fairly large blocks before these can be rewritten with new data...

 based product, tachIOn, was announced in June 2010. The tachIOn line of products are PCIe

PCI Express

PCI Express , officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards...

 cards that use field-replaceable modules containing single-level cell (SLC) flash chips from, for example, Micron

Micron Technology

Micron Technology, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Boise, Idaho, USA, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices. This includes DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips. Consumers may be more familiar with its consumer brand Crucial...

, Samsung

Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics is a South Korean multinational electronics and information technology company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul...

 and Toshiba. They support inbuilt RAID

RAID

RAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit...

 and error correction features.

Awards

Virident Systems was chosen as a winner of TiE50

TiE

TiE is a global nonprofit dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship. TiE has 54 chapters in 13 countries, with a total membership exceeding 13,000. TiE is most closely affiliated with the South Asian business community, and is recognized as an important networking forum for entrepreneurs and investors...

 award in May 2011 and a winner of the Red Herring Top 100 North America

Red Herring (magazine)

Red Herring was a technology business magazine, which flourished during the dot com boom, with global distribution and bureaus in Bangalore, Beijing, and Paris. It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together. But the magazine went into...

award in June 2011.

External links

• Virident Systems official web-site