Virtium

Virtium was co-founded in 1997 by Phu Hoang, a refugee from Vietnam, and Chinh Nguyen. Hoang lived on a boat before immigrating to North America and learned English in a refugee camp.{{cite web |title=Orange County Register|date= 13 May 2008|url= http://www.ocregister.com/2008/05/13/former-vietnamese-refugee-now-heads-major-rancho-company/}} Former Vietnamese refugee now heads major Rancho company Since co-founding Virtium, Hoang has been acknowledged for his entrepreneurship{{cite web |title=Orange County Business Journal|date= 20 March 2013|url= http://www.ocbj.com/news/2013/mar/20/business-journal-honors-excellence-entrepreneurshi/}} Business Journal Honors Excellence in Entrepreneurship{{cite web |title=Orange County Register|date= 11 June 2014|url= http://www.ocregister.com/2014/06/11/3-irvine-professionals-among-entrepreneur-of-the-year-winners/}} 3 Irvine professionals among Entrepreneur of the Year winners and innovation.{{cite web |title=Orange County Business Journal|date=24 September 2017 |url=https://www.ocbj.com/news/2017/sep/25/free-innovate/}} Free to Innovate -- Tech Manufacturing Founder Found His Spot After Flight from Vietnam

Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, USA, and with operations elsewhere in North America, Europe and Asia, Virtium designs, builds and supports its products in the United States. Virtium's primary products are memory modules and solid-state drives that use flash storage and are designed primarily with the SATA and PCI Express interfaces.{{cite web |title=The SSD Review|date=14 August 2015 |url=http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/latest-buzz/virtium-finds-industrial-trends-entering-consumer-market-flash-memory-summit-2015-update/}} Virtium Finds Industrial Trends Entering Consumer Market – Flash Memory Summit 2015 Update{{cite web |title= EE Times |url= http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1315809 }} Virtium introduces embedded SATA SSDs

Virtium was among the first to apply proprietary programming sequences that “bridge” between single-level-cell (SLC) and multi-level-cell (MLC) types of flash memory used in SSDs, thus drawing on the reliability of the former and the cost efficiencies of the latter.{{cite web |title=Tom's Hardware|date= 30 May 2014|url= https://www.tomshardware.com/news/virtium-ssd-storfly-m.2,26862.html}} Virtium Introduces M.2 SSDs In 2016, Virtium introduced self-encrypting SSDs—the first family of industrial-grade SSDs with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) self-encryption available across all major drive form factors and designed for data security and data integrity.{{cite web |title=Electronic Design|url= http://electronicdesign.com/memory/encrypted-ssds-take-aim-industrial-iot-applications}} Encrypted SSDs Take Aim at Industrial IoT Applications Those self-encrypting SSDs placed first in the Board, Modules & Embedded Systems category of the ECN magazine 2017 Impact Awards.{{cite web |title=EE World Online|date= 24 October 2017|url= https://www.eeworldonline.com/ecn-impact-awards-2017-announces-winner-placements/}} ECN IMPACT Awards 2017 Announces Winner Placements Also in 2016, Virtium became one of the first industry vendors to market eUSB 3.0 storage modules in the ultra-small, 10-pin form factor.{{cite web |title=Computer Technology Review|url= http://wwpi.com/2016/08/22/virtium-debuts-tuffdrive-its-eusb-3-0-embedded-storage-modules/}} Virtium debuts TuffDrive, its eUSB 3.0 embedded storage modules Later the same year, Virtium doubled the top capacity of its very-low-profile (VLP) RDIMM and Mini-RDIMM DDR4 memory modules to 64GB—at the time the highest capacity for industrial-embedded memory modules.{{cite web |title=Electronic Design|url=http://electronicdesign.com/test-measurement/electronic-design-s-products-week-115-121#slide-2-field_images-910301/}} Electronic Design’s Products of the Week In early 2021, Virtium introduced three 32GB ultra-low-profile (ULP) DDR4 modules that represent the industry's first of that capacity in Mini-UDIMM, Mini-RDIMM and SO-UDIMM form factors, as well as the industry's first 64GB ULP RDIMM module.

In September 2017, Virtium debuted its StorFly M.2 NVMe SSDs that supported industrial temperatures, or I-Temp (−40 °C to +85 °C), and drew an industry-low 3 W of power.{{cite web |title= Embedded Computing Design |url= http://www.embedded-computing.com/storage/virtium-introduces-nvme-ssds }} Virtium Introduces NVMe SSDs In 2019, the company expanded its StorFly family of SSDs to include industrial 3D NAND-based drives,{{cite web |title= IoT Innovator |date= 7 February 2019|url= http://iotinnovator.com/virtium-offers-industrial-3d-nand-based-ssds-to-tackle-embedded-industrial-iot-applications/}} Virtium Offers Industrial 3D NAND-based SSDs to Tackle Embedded, Industrial IoT Applications followed by the StorFly-XR (XR is an initialism for "Extra Rugged") line of highly ruggedized SSDs using 3D NAND flash and XR-DIMM memory modules designed for military and aerospace applications.{{cite web |title= Military & Aerospace Electronics |url= https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/14067909/solidstate-drives-ssds-avionics-reconnaissance}} High-reliability solid-state drives (SSDs) for avionics and reconnaissance data introduced by Virtium

Virtium expanded the StorFly family further in 2019 with the addition of a four-terabyte SSD with industrial-temperature support and integrated data protection.{{cite web |title= IoT Innovator |date= 24 October 2019|url= http://iotinnovator.com/virtiums-storfly-industrial-ssd-now-comes-in-4tb-capacity-delivers-i-temp-support-integrated-data-protection}} Virtium's StorFly Industrial SSD Now Comes in 4TB Capacity; Delivers I-Temp Support, Integrated Data Protection In February 2020, the company brought to market its free StorKit SSD software suite for SSD qualification, migration from SLC and MLC to higher-density flash, and monitoring and maintenance of drives deployed locally or remotely.{{cite web |title= IoT Innovator |date= 18 February 2020|url= http://iotinnovator.com/virtium-releases-storkit-ssd-software-tools-speeds-migration-from-slc-mlc-to-higher-density-flash-memory}} Virtium Releases StorKit SSD Software Tools, Speeds Migration from SLC / MLC to Higher-Density Flash Memory Also in 2020, Virtium announced an expansion to the StorFly SSD family through the addition of higher-capacity 2.5-inch SATA, M.2 SATA and M.2 NVMe drives with I-Temp support.{{cite web |title= Help Net Security |date= 25 June 2020|url= https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/06/25/virtium-storfly/}} Virtium expands StorFly line of industrial-grade SSDs to protect IIoT data in extreme temperatures To address the increasing role of industrial-grade storage in edge computing, Virtium collaborated with SolidRun later in 2020 to prequalify select Virtium SSDs, memory and SSD software for SolidRun computer-on-module and network computing platforms targeted at 5G communications systems.{{cite web |title= 5G Evolution World |url= https://www.5gevolutionworld.com/topics/5gevolution/articles/446227-solidrun-virtium-charge-toward-5g-future.htm}} SolidRun and Virtium Charge Toward 5G Future In early 2021, Virtium further expanded its SSD family with the Series 6 line of NVMe, I-Temp-supported drives focused on data-intensive workloads{{cite web |title= StorageReview |date= 14 March 2021|url= https://www.storagereview.com/news/news-bits-quantum-qumulo-aws-wekaio-vitrium-ctera-excelero}} News Bits: Quantum, Qumulo, AWS, WekaIO, Virtium, CTERA, & Excelero which was among Electronic Design magazine's Embedded Products and Solutions of the Week.{{cite web |title= Electronic Design |url= https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/media-gallery/21162911/electronic-design-embedded-products-and-solutions-of-the-week-53-59?slide=6}} Embedded Products and Solutions of the Week (5/3 - 5/9) Storage-industry journalist and author Tom Coughlin illustrated the need for durable solid-state storage for industrial-embedded applications in a 2021 Forbes article, which featured Virtium, its SSDs and the drives' applications.{{cite web |title= Forbes |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2021/04/20/some-storage-has-to-last/?sh=4dc56a709b6b}} Some Storage Has To Last In May 2021, Virtium debuted the StorFly CFexpress PCIe Gen 4 Removable NVMe SSDs, the industry's first solid-state drives to incorporate NVMe, the PCI Express 4.0 interface and I-Temp in the highly compact CFexpress form factor.{{cite web |title= TMCnet News |url= https://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-virtium-introduces-industrys-first-cfexpress-removable-nvme-solid-/2021/05/26/9378135.htm}} Virtium Introduces Industry's First CFexpress Removable NVMe Solid-State Drives with PCIe 4.0, Industrial Temperature Support

In August 2015, Virtium secured investment from L Squared Capital Partners{{cite web |title= Orange County Register |date= 5 August 2015|url= https://www.ocregister.com/2015/08/05/l-squared-capital-of-newport-beach-invests-in-storage-memory-firm/}} L Squared Capital of Newport Beach invests in storage, memory firm and added David Bradford and Tim Leyden to its board of directors. Court Square Capital Partners acquired L Squared Capital's investment in Virtium in May 2019.{{cite news |title= AltAssets |url= https://www.altassets.net/private-equity-news/by-news-type/deal-news/court-square-backs-next-gen-iot-data-storage-memory-developer-virtium.html}} Court Square backs next-gen IoT data storage, memory developer Virtium

Virtium specializes in memory modules, advanced components, flash-based solid-state drives (for local and remote storage), and supporting software.{{cite news|title=DigiTimes|url=http://digitimes.com/photogallery/showphoto.asp?ID=4467&tag=6562}} Virtium ruggedized DDR3 MicroDIMM{{cite news|title=StorageSearch|url=http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-104.html}} industrial SSDs Those product lines were expanded in 2015 with multiple additions to the company's industrial-embedded systems category.{{cite web |title=Electronic Design|url=http://electronicdesign.com/embedded/electronic-design-s-products-week-89-815#slide-8-field_images-851041}} Electronic Design’s Products of the Week

The company's memory and storage products employ a variety of form factors and interfaces, including DIMM{{cite web |title=EE Times Asia|url=http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800459536_499486_NP_9b13c594.HTM#.VjOHaLxh0W0/}} DDR2 blade modules eye embedded computing{{cite web |title=CDRinfo|url=http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=40126}} Virtium Starts Offering DDR4 VLP RDIMM Samples memory modules for DDR3L, MiniDIMM and ECC SoDIMM{{cite web |title=EE Times|url=http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1310700}} SODIMM combines SATA SSD, DDR SDRAM technologies memory modules for DDR3L, and M.2,{{cite web |title=Tom's Hardware|date=30 May 2014 |url=http://www.tomshardware.com/news/virtium-ssd-storfly-m.2,26862.html}} Virtium Introduces M.2 SSDs mSATA, CFast, Slim SATA, CompactFlash, PCI Express Mini Card, and eUSB SLC SSDs.

Competitors include SMART Modular Technologies and Swissbit.

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.virtium.com/ Official website]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R5ENaOxl8k TEDx video of Virtium founder Phu Hoang]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4KC2yURyGk Virtium at-a-glance video]

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