Fusion-io

Fusion-io is a company headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, in the U.S. state of Utah, a branch in "Silicon Valley", San Jose, California (USA). The company designs and builds storage application acceleration based on NAND Flash technology. The Wall Street Journal, the company was listed in March 2010, the number two promising young company behind a bio-tech company.

The company was founded in 2006 and since 2007, offers products. Since 2009, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is employed by the company as Chief Scientist (Chief Scientist ).

Financing

In March 2008, the company received in a first round of financing, a total of 19 million U.S. dollars from a group of investors, led by " New Enterprise Associates ". Among other things, Michael Dell is one of the financiers. In a second round of financing in April 2009, the Company received additional 47.5 million U.S. dollars from the group of investors Lightspeed Venture Partners. Samsung is also involved since October 2009, at Fusion-io. Both companies have enjoyed a close partnership. In the third round of financing Meritech Capital Partners, Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz also involved with 45 million U.S. dollars. Since June 2011, the company is listed as a public company on the NASDAQ under the symbol FIO.

Technology

Unusual is developed by the company addressing the NAND flash. Using FPGA and a new protocol layer in the operating system are addressed, the cells directly. Nevertheless, the non-volatile memory is available depending on the software used in various forms. Most LUN as a local disk or a shared storage - block device.

Partnerships

Technology partners such as IBM, HP, Dell and Super Micro Computer helped the young company is also in the start -up phase. So IBM showed the project Quicksilver, which is based on Fusion-io hardware, the highest I / O performance of his time: one million IOPS. HP designed together with Fusion-io in March 2009, the IO Accelerator product, with 1,000,000 IOPS also were detected in a single ProLiant server in April 2009. In the fall of 2012, NetApp and Cisco announce to working with the company.

Employee

The company has about 450 employees (as of July 2011) in Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States. CEO is co-founder David Flynn. Steve Wozniak is chief scientist of the company.

Awards

  • 2007: Demo God award for the product ioDrive and ioMemory
  • 2008: Demo God award for the product ioSAN
  • 2009: Red Herring Top 100 Global Company
  • 2009: No. 1 innovation up - and-comer in the World by Business Week
  • Company (Utah )
  • Hardware Manufacturers (United States)
  • Salt Lake County
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