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July 23, 2010
“On the bottom it looks like a memory device and on the top it looks like an I/O device. It is not strictly a storage device and it is not strictly memory. It’s a hybrid that provides a new building block for storage,” said David Flynn, CEO, Fusion-io. “This is truly a platform play.”
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July 21, 2010
ioMemory VSL (Virtual Storage Layer) is definitely an enterprise application for now. It has little direct connection to the parts within your existing notebook or desktop, but the ideas presented here could definitely affect your notebooks and desktops of the future.
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July 21, 2010
Fusion-io CEO David Flynn said VSL does for I/O memory what the virtual machine (VM) subsystem does for DRAM. VSL uses direct memory access and low-level physical addressing to talk to I/O memory, and it acts like a native memory module. "It's so fast, it's better than using true RAM," Flynn said.
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July 2, 2010
At the gorgeous Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, HP and Fusion-io had a party, but rather than have this party hosted by female Hollywood starlets, it was hosted by the world-famous co-founder of Apple and pioneer of personal computers – Steve Wozniak. How ubercool is that?
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June 15, 2010
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for example, is using flash-based technology from a startup called Fusion-io to create what the company and the lab call the world’s highest performance storage array. The approach uses 80 servers–supplied by Appro International–that are packed with flash memory modules from Fusion-io that collectively store one hundred terabytes of data. (One terabyte, as a point of reference, is 1,000 gigabytes).
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June 7, 2010
Fusion-io had a breakthrough technology, but it was key decisions in leadership transition that put the firm over the top.
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June 4, 2010
Steve Wozniak discusses solid-state storage and offers advice for small-business entrepreneurs starting their own technology companies.
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May 4, 2010
David Flynn, CEO, and Steve Wozniak, chief scientist, talk to Fox News' Neil Cavuto about server consolidation and more.
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April 21, 2010
Data storage has always been a tumultuous part of tech, as companies grapple with a rising flood of information and hardware vendors race to offer hardware that stores more of it. But speed is just as important as capacity for many customers, helping to explain the momentum of a startup called Fusion-io.
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April 21, 2010
Flash storage vendor Fusion-io http://www.fusionio.com/ has landed $45 million in third-round financing, bringing the company to well over $100 million in total funding.
Fusion-io, which builds PCIe cards that are loaded with flash memory to speed up I/O-intensive applications, has raised more than $90 million since joining forces with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
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April 21, 2010
The MySQL Conference, a gathering of programmers who share database strategies, was held in the Santa Clara Convention Center this week. One hot topic was SSDs.
My favorite session was hosted by Fusion-io. They rounded up four satisfied customers who discussed how Fusion-io SSDs had benefited them.
With the results these firms experienced it’s clear that now is the time for all data center managers to stand up and pay attention!
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April 19, 2010
The FusionIO system is different from all others in that it doesn't use SSD drives, instead having proprietary flash memory mounted directly to the board.
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It achieved the highest throughput in the test (the HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator is also made by FusionIO) with over 700MBps on reads and over 500MBps on writes and excellent IOps, with no write cliff.
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March 10, 2010
WSJ: Fusion-io Top Young Technology Firm
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March 10, 2010
Fusion-io technology makes computing equipment more efficient, and being able to do more with less renders value to society as a whole, says David Flynn, Fusion-io's president and chief technology officer. "Whether you know about Fusion-io or not you’ve been using us, because Facebook, Myspace, Google, large internet properties are already using the product," Flynn says.
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March 10, 2010
A key issue has been the bottleneck created by data-storage systems. Fusion-io Inc., No. 2 on this list, tackles this with newfangled systems that, instead of traditional spinning disks, use flash memory, a technology that has no moving parts and is best known for holding songs in iPods and images in digital cameras. The speed of flash and the way Fusion-io incorporates it into servers lets servers work three to ten times harder, the company says.
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January 7, 2010
Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and Fusion-io chief scientist, on the challenge of hiring and managing creative thinkers and creating revolutionary products.
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January 6, 2010
Guest Insights: "To inspire people to achieve, a leader must bring to life the vision of the greater cause--whether that's a technology that stands to revolutionize the storage industry or a political platform. As each person discovers his or her own unique part in the plan, personal motivation takes over."
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December 17, 2009
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recently came into Bloomberg BusinessWeek's New York office to talk to technology writer Arik Hesseldahl and answer questions from readers about technology, the future, Apple, and Fusion-IO, the company where he is now chief scientist.
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December 14, 2009
Fusion-io on Wednesday announced that its ioMemory technology will be offered exclusively in IBM’s family of System x servers.
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December 11, 2009
Apparently, Woz does more than ride around on his Segway making commercials for auto body repair shops.
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November 16, 2009
It's rare we get genuinely excited around here about a product...Sure we can appreciate and will occasionally hand out high praise for a major evolutionary advancement but we honestly can't remember the last time a product really officially "changed the game" for us, or so to speak...
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October 23, 2009
Perhaps you've heard this astonishing figure. At Amazon.com, every 100 ms of latency costs the company 1% in sales.
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October 21, 2009
"The disc drive is Thomas Edison's phonograph. It's a 150-year-old record player," David Flynn, CTO of Fusion-io says. "Moore's Law wins. It's geometric."
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October 21, 2009
Samsung -- the world's biggest NAND flash manufacturer and also Fusion-io's chief supplier -- has thrown some cash at the young startup company, and declared that the pair are now officially dating.
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October 20, 2009
As a startup catering to enterprise customers, staying power is a key selling point, especially in this challenging funding environment.
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October 13, 2009
Q: When do you see the market for solid state really catching fire?
A: It's on fire now. I look back to the personal computer revolution, and we weren't selling many personal computers, but just as we were starting Apple, the first wave of analysts paying attention to this and saying it was going to be a multibillion-dollar market was so similar with what's happening with Fusion-io.
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October 13, 2009
Social networking site MySpace.com announced today that it has switched from using hard disk drives in its servers to using PCI Express (PCIe) cards loaded with solid state chips as primary storage for their data center operations.
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October 13, 2009
Utah-based solid-state storage business announces social networking company as one of its nearly 1,000 customers as it eyes expansion in the industry.
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August 18, 2009
Today, Mr. Wozniak is the chief scientist for Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City, Utah, technology company that claims to have invented "the world's fastest storage device." "Great technology is like great art, you know it when you see it," Mr. Wozniak said...
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August 13, 2009
Investors » Cash infusion is nearly three times that of a year ago; Fusion-io leads the pack; Most of the money -- $66.5 million -- went to Fusion-io, the Salt Lake City-based maker of high-speed storage devices.
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August 13, 2009
Sumeet Bansal is now an architect with SSD vendor Fusion-io but before he joined his present employer, he was VP if IT at online wine seller wine.com...
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August 12, 2009
Wine.com, an online retailer, switched to H.P. using SSDs from Fusion-io and has never looked back.
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August 5, 2009
Fusion-io, makers of really really fast SSDs, announced a new line of workstation storage cards, the ioXtreme. Marketed primarily towards workstations used in film and television production, as well as high-end gaming rigs, the ioXtreme has an 80 gigabyte capacity and screaming fast transfer speeds averaging around 520 MB/second.
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July 27, 2009
SSD vendor Fusion-io believes that it has found a way to significantly reduce the price of enterprise-class flash memory devices without reducing performance or compromising reliability by using what it calls Single-mode Multi-Level Cell (SMLC) technology, which uses multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory technology at the chip level.
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July 21, 2009
Fusion-io is bringing a whole new meaning to SSD – Super Speedy Database
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July 8, 2009
The SMLC technology features bandwidth equal to SLC, with comparable endurance and write performance levels, at a cost that is substantially lower than traditional SLC solutions.
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July 8, 2009
Not only does Fusion-io's SSD technology circumvent the looming SATA bottleneck, but it also accommodates for some of the intrinsic limitations of the current generation of NAND Flash technology, which in our humble opinion, is without question a game changer.
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June 26, 2009
On the innovation side of web infrastructure, MySpace is particularly interested in the development of flash technology. "Fusion-io is the product we've been looking at and it's pretty groundbreaking and revolutionary.
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June 16, 2009
Processing over 650,000 shipments per year, Wine.com is the largest online retail wine store in the country. Founded in 1998, the company has 100 employees and eight of them work in the IT department.
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June 3, 2009
Our schedule opened up a little bit for the second day at E3 which granted us more time to walk the floor and get some hands-on with games and hardware a lot of you may have been curious about.
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May 21, 2009
Newcomer Fusion-io has come out of the gate only recently and is already making international partner-type news. The solid-state storage server maker announced May 20 that it is joining with old-timer Samsung Semiconductor to create a new generation of server-deployed, network-attached solid-state storage arrays using Samsung's NAND flash hardware.
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April 29, 2009
In this Special Edition DEMOcast, Christina Butkiewicus catches up with Rick White, co-founder of Fusion-io and asks him about the OEM relationship with HP, the addition of Steve Wozniak as the Chief Scientific Officer, new CEO David Bradford and the company's latest funding round of $47.5 million.
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April 9, 2009
In continuing my dialog about my insights at the Spring SNW 2008, I did multiple briefings on Tuesday, April 7, but none was more insightful than the sit-down meeting I had with Fusion-io's self proclaimed Chief Mind Bender Rick White.
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April 9, 2009
Solid-state disk vendor Fusion-io set up a high-profile display of flash memory power at this week's Storage Networking World by displaying 768 DVD-quality video streams from a single SSD on a high-definition television monitor.
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April 7, 2009
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April 7, 2009
Last week I published a story on Fusion-io, a fascinating startup company that is applying flash memory to large-scale enterprise storage products like Storage Area Networks.
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April 7, 2009
During the 1990s, David Bradford was an important behind-the-scenes player in the inquisition of Microsoft. As general counsel at software maker Novell where then-CEO Ray Noorda had a positive fixation on its aggressive competitor Bradford tirelessly dug up examples of questionable Microsoft tactics and supplied it to government antitrust investigators.
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March 30, 2009
The red-hot startup was nominated by readers as an innovative company we should know. Its business could overturn the way corporations store data
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March 27, 2009
David Flynn, the chief technical officer at flash memory component maker Fusion-io, thinks in terms of balance, and in particular in terms of how imbalances have driven system designers to compensate.
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March 20, 2009
I hope this is just the start of things to come, and, as the technology becomes inevitably better, and cheaper, this type of device would be offered to the likes of me and you.
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March 16, 2009
Fusion-io has launched what it is calling the fastest server-based solid state drive on the market today, with double the slot capacity if its older PCI Express-based ioDrive.
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March 14, 2009
By splicing two ioDrives together on a single card, Fusion-io has shown the scaleability of their uber-fast flash technology by simultaneously doubling the throughput and capacity of their ioDrive line.
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March 12, 2009
When Hewlett Packard and Fusion-io announced an agreement earlier this month for an HP StorageWorks Accelerator that was capable of boosting enterprise server performance for HP blade server customers, it was a signal that enterprises could see more solid-state technology applied within servers, rather than outside of them.
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March 12, 2009
Fusion-io, also known as the company that Steve Wozniak just joined as Chief Scientist, has just revealed the world's fastest SSD touting a mind-boggling 1.5GB sustained read and 1.4GB sustained write speeds.
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March 9, 2009
Fusion-io, a provider of enterprise solid-state storage architecture and high-performance I/O solutions, announced that it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with HP for the HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator, a NAND flash-based storage adapter based on Fusion's ioMemory technology.
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March 6, 2009
I published a brief article last month about a set of test we were doing on a production data warehouse that was performing very poorly. Running the database on a Dell Server with 4 x 73GB SAS drives configured in RAID0 we got a respectable 575 IOs per second (IOPS) on a random write test. Running the same tests and same database with a Fusion-io 160GB ioDrive we got a staggering 22,327 IOPS. This is 38.8 times faster and significantly better than I expected.
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March 6, 2009
Why is the company so hot? The company packs SSDs galore onto a PCI card that acts as direct-attach storage. There's enough memory on the cards - and it performs so fast - that the company says its devices are an alternative to SANs.
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February 20, 2009
Wozniak acknowledged he has had his pick of opportunities with start-ups, but he said Fusion-io's technology "astounded" him. The company makes high-speed solid-state drives for use in computer servers, using flash memory chips instead of conventional mechanical disk drives.
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February 5, 2009
Steve Wozniak, best known for creating Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976, has a new gig now: Chief scientist at Fusion-io, an enterprise storage company. Wozniak had been an advisor to the company.
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February 5, 2009
Fusion-io packs 200 pieces of flash silicon onto a module that slides into a server slot like a graphics card.
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February 4, 2009
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, could ignore the call of the motherboard no longer. He is going back to work this time at Fusion-io.
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January 27, 2009
The data center 'sweet spot' for flash is between higher-performing memory like cache and RAM and slower media like hard drives.
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January 27, 2009
Niche storage suppliers are going great guns in the recession while broad product line suppliers, like IBM and EMC, are suffering.
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December 16, 2008
One of IBM's recent solid-state research projects is Quicksilver, a collaboration with solid-state maker Fusion-io that Andrews says achieved 1 million IOPS.
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December 11, 2008
The results of the test confirmed that the ioDrive is the fastest option by a mile it set a new record in one of their storage speed testing suites, beating the previous record by a good 30 percent.
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December 11, 2008
The ioDrive uses the same NAND flash memory of an SSD, but since it plugs in to a PCI Express bus rather than SATA and only works with 64-bit systems, it can achieve speeds nothing else can touch.
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December 11, 2008
"Fusion-io has raised the bar so high that once adopted, traditional solutions will be considered legacy products."
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December 11, 2008
"IBM is excited to work with Fusion-io on innovative technologies that bring value to our clients," said David Weber, IBM Program Director, Wall Street Center of Excellence.
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December 11, 2008
It's the first solid-state storage technology approved by Big Blue.
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December 10, 2008
When compared to other types of enterprise storage, the price becomes invisible. Fusion-io has raised the bar so high that, once adopted, traditional solutions will be considered legacy products.
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December 10, 2008
Over the last few years, the performance demands of applications have outstripped the ability of backend disk storage systems to keep up with them.
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December 4, 2008
Now, what happens when you introduce to the storage industry a component that commoditizes and trivializes the linch-pin reason for expensive proprietary disk arrays, namely the caching tier - using NAND flash.
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November 20, 2008
The list of vendors and industry organizations initially joining the SSSI included…... Fusion-io
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October 23, 2008
IBM hasn't yet revealed concrete SSD plans but tipped its hand a few months back by previewing its Project Quicksilver, which adds Fusion-IO solid-state drives to IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC) storage virtualization device.
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October 21, 2008
SNW showed that there are three flash storage plays emerging: flash in the shelf, flash in the controller and flash in the server. Only 3PAR out of the top 12 or so storage vendors does not have a flash strategy.
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October 15, 2008
IBM is likely to introduce flash-enabled servers and a productised QuickSilver within the next six months or so. Flash-enabled servers will use direct-attached flash solid state drives (SSD) to accelerate their operations. IBM's Project QuickSilver had 4TB of flash SSD connected to 14 clustered SAN Volume Controllers (SVC) and producing one million IOPS.
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October 14, 2008
Fusion-io has a storage technology that, if it succeeds, could wreak havoc amongst the business models of mid-range drive array storage vendors.
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October 13, 2008
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is joining forces with a storage start-up that's helping to bring flash memory to the enterprise.
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October 6, 2008
Fusion-io, a company developing solid-state technology and high-performance I/O solutions has announced the launch of ioXtreme, its first consumer product. ioXtreme provides the PC users with 80 GB of PCI-Express-based, high-performance, solid state storage that was designed for the world's fastest supercomputers.
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October 3, 2008
Fusion IO, which has made a name for itselfA? with high-performance SSDs for the enterprise segment, preps its first consumer SSD which promises to be more than twice as fast as the fastest SSDs on the market today.
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September 30, 2008
If Michael Dell were starting up in business today, it would be in storage and operate in China… Regarding solid state storage (SSD) Michael Dell said Dell is an investor in Fusion-io and is very aware of that company's 4TB of PCI-e connected SSD storage used in IBM's Project QuickSilver.
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September 22, 2008
Should you use flash solid state drive (SSD) storage as a pretend hard disk drive or as a cache attached to a server's main bus? IBM, with the help of Fusion-io, thinks you should provide a PCI-e link to separate SSD storage as demonstrated in Project Quicksilver with 4TB of Fusion flash.
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September 22, 2008
All signs continue to point a substantial influx of solid state disks (SSDs) in enterprise settings starting next year, but to be fair, SSDs have been knocking on the enterprise door for some time now and have yet to cross the threshold.
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September 9, 2008
DEMO alum Fusion-io is back with ioSAN, a PCIe card utilizing flash memory that delivers an easy-to-deploy storage-area network with extremely fast performance.
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September 8, 2008
Fusion-io, a start-up based in Salt Lake City, introduced its "ioSAN" networked enterprise solid state drive (SSD). The ioSAN can be deployed as networked, server-attached storage or integrated into networked storage infrastructure using the directly connected form factor.
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September 8, 2008
IBM aims to turn its research into a solid-state storage system that it says will be several times faster than current disk arrays and available in as soon as 12 months. The server will run using software optimized to squeeze higher performance out of flash memory, and the use of flash memory cards from Fusion-io.
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August 29, 2008
IBM has said its 'Project Quicksilver' is setting new records for data-transfer speeds on solid-state technology, with its tests showing a disk-storage solution hitting one million input/outputs per second (IOPS).
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August 28, 2008
IBM has claimed a major breakthrough in flash storage, with a research project that's delivering data transfer speeds of more than 1 million input/output operations per second, two and a half times faster than the industry's fastest disk storage.
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August 28, 2008
IBM said Thursday it is testing a 4-terabyte, high-speed solid-state drive array targeted at the enterprise, as the technology giant gives its imprimatur to flash-memory-based storage.
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August 19, 2008
Intel will finally enter the high-capacity solid-state drive business with the goal of replacing hard-disk drives in both consumer and corporate markets.
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August 14, 2008
Fuision-io has implemented full-chip redundancy on its ioDrive, bringing RAID-class redundancy using "flashback" protection down to the card level.
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August 14, 2008
Fusion-io has just announced that its ioDrive solid state storage solutions just got better due to the integration of full-chip redundancy.
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August 13, 2008
High-speed, I/O storage provider Fusion-io Tuesday introduced full-chip redundancy technology for its ioDrive to keep flash drives working when chips fail so businesses don't lose data.
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August 13, 2008
Fusion-io has added a dedicated flash chip to its ioDrive server solid state disk (SSD) to hold parity information and so provide RAID-class protection for the drive's data contents.
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July 31, 2008
Innovative start-ups target flash drives, cloud storage, disaster recovery
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July 3, 2008
A few weeks ago, at Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Technology Forum, a relatively new entrant into the field, Fusion io announced that is adapting Fusion-io's ioMemory architecture to HP's enterprise-class servers, including the HP BladeSystem c-Class system.
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June 25, 2008
It seems everyone is talking about flash memory, a type of solid-state storage that offers faster and more energy-efficient performance than rotating disk drives.
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June 20, 2008
Fusion-io has partnerd with HP to accelerate enterprise server application potential using their innovative storage technology.
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June 19, 2008
HP is radically increasing the I/O rates of its servers, including blade servers, by using flash memory caches from Fusion-io.
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June 19, 2008
HP appears more bullish about putting SSD in servers instead of on storage arrays. Flash vendor Fusion-io revealed Wednesday that it is working with HP to slot SSDs directly into servers, rather than putting them on the SAN side or attaching them through the normal server drive bays.
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June 19, 2008
The race by system vendors to add solid-state technology to servers is heating up as Hewlett-Packard joins with Fusion-io to inject servers with flash storage technology that HP claims can speed performance by as much as 40 percent for some applications.
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June 19, 2008
Hewlett-Packard Company is working with Fusion-io to adapt the start-up's high-performance, solid-state input/output storage technology to HP's enterprise servers to improve their data access performance and energy efficiency.
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June 19, 2008
Fusion-io, a Utah based developer and manufacturer of solid-state storage systems, announced on 18 June that it is collaborating with HP to adapt its technology for installation in HP's enterprise-class servers, including the BladeSystem c-Class systems.
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June 19, 2008
Hewlett-Packard and start-up Fusion-io Wednesday announced that they will work together in HP's server products used in the Fusion-io's solid-state disk technology.
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June 18, 2008
Hewlett-Packard Co. and start-up Fusion-io today announced plans to jointly enable the latter's solid-state memory technology to run across HP server products.
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June 18, 2008
Now that HP has emerged as top dog in the server market, the company is aggressively adding to its arsenal in a bid to hold onto that leadership position over arch-rival IBM.
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April 17, 2008
What does the future hold for host bus adapters (HBAs), network interface cards (NICs) and the rest of the hardware devices that make up what we know as the enterprise network infrastructure? In fact, do these systems have much of a future at all?
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April 4, 2008
Another start-up has joined the emerging fray in the enterprise solid-state storage market. Fusion-io recently announced the general availability of the company's first product, the ioDrive PCIe card.
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April 2, 2008
The device can be installed at multiple points in existing data centers or workstations without any changes, the company said.
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April 2, 2008
Start-up Fusion-io this week announced a storage adapter that takes the place of expensive Fibre Channel storage-area networks.
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April 2, 2008
Like Rocky (or Hillary Clinton), direct-attached storage (DAS) keeps getting up off the mat. Just as SAN and NAS solutions were making their way into even the smallest of networks, a new form of high-performance DAS hits the scene said to equal SAN performance at a fraction of the cost.
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March 31, 2008
Startup announces Series A round, unveils new CEO, and prepares to launch its products
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March 31, 2008
A storage start-up called Fusion-io that claims it can deliver speeds 1,000 times faster than a single disk drive is making its first product generally available on April 7 and has secured $19 million in venture capital.
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March 31, 2008
Fusion-io came out of stealth today with a PCIe flash card designed to give off-the-shelf servers SAN-like performance.
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