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see also: -
Fusion-io
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- March 2010 -
Fusion-io has
occupied the #1 slot in StorageSearch.com's
Top 10 SSD Companies
list for 4 straight quarters - reflecting huge interest in what this
company is doing and saying in the
SSD market.
Along
the way, Fusion-io has established for itself the iconic brand recognition of
being the SSD company most strongly associated in customer minds with the
PCIe form factor .
That recognition is due as much to clever marketing as cleverly
designed products and is despite the fact that Fusion-io wasn't the 1st
company to launch such a product - and also despite the growing high number
and quality of competitors in this segment.
Whereas Fusion-io's core
business is in high end enterprise server acceleration - the company has also
held out the promise that prosumers - may also get goodies which drop from the
high performance computing table - in the form of value engineered SSDs at
prices they might just be able to afford.
Here are some recent
milestones extracted from
SSD Market
History
In
September 2007 - Fusion-io launched the
ioDrive - a
PCIe form factor
flash SSD with
upto 640GB capacity and 100K IOPS performance.
In August 2008 -
Fusion-io added RAID
protection to the flash memory array in its Fusion-io PCIe SSD and improved R/W
performance.
In September 2008 -
Fusion-io unveiled
the ioSAN - a 10GbE or Infiniband
attached flash SSD on PCIe form factor which will ship in 2009.
In February
2009 - Steve
Wozniak became Chief Scientist at
Fusion-io. Wozniak
will act as a key technical advisor to the Fusion-io research and development
group and will also work closely with the executive team of Fusion-io in
formulating a strategy that will accelerate the expansion of major global
accounts.
In March 2009 -
Fusion-io announced
an oem deal with HP whose
new PCIe based
StorageWorks
IO Accelerator for HP BladeSystem c-Class servers is based on Fusion's
ioMemory SSD technology. A low level formatting tool for the HP SSD enables
users to choose what level of
over-provisioning is
used - as a performance
tweaking option.
Also in March 2009 -
Fusion-io announced
an enhanced version of its ioDrive - called the
ioDrive Duo
which will ship next month. Capacity has doubled to 640GB with 1.2TB planned
for the 2nd half of 2009. Performance has been enhanced too. The ioDrive Duo
can easily sustain 1.5 Gbytes/sec of read bandwidth. Read IOPS performance is
186,000 (4k packet size). Write IOPS reaches 167,000 (4k packet size).
In
April 2009 - Fusion-io
was named the #1 company in StorageSearch.com's
list of the the Top 10
SSD OEMs based on search volume in Q1 2009.
Also in April
2009 - Fusion-io
announced that its SSD technology has enabled HP to achieve 1 million
IOPS (using 2KB random 70/30 read/write mix) and 8GB/s sustained throughput
from a single ProLiant server. Working together in HP's ProLiant engineering
labs in Houston, technologists from HP and Fusion-io built a system using 5x
320MB ioDrive Duos and 6x 160MB ioDrives in a single HP ProLiant DL785 G5
server, running with 4 Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Fusion-io's SSDs had
earlier been the secret ingredient in an
IBM "million
IOPS" story in August 2008.
Also in April 2009 -
Fusion-io announced it has closed $47.5 million in Series B funding
and named a new CEO,
David Bradford.
In June 2009 -
Fusion-io announced
it will ship a consumer
optimized version of of its enterprise PCIe SSD family in July. Priced at
$895, the ioXtreme has 80GB MLC
flash capacity and average throughput of 520MB/s. Supported OS's include:-
Windows XP, Vista and Linux.
In
July 2009 - Fusion-io
was once again named the #1 company in
StorageSearch.com's list of the
the Top 10 SSD OEMs
based on search volume in Q 2009. Fusion-io's search volume was more than 2x
as high as the #3 ranked company in this list indicating overwhelmingly high
reader affinity for learning more about this company.
Also in
July 2009 - Fusion-io
announced the results of TPC-H benchmark tests sponsored by, and running
on, Dell servers, and audited by
Performance Metrics, Inc. The tested
system
achieved
28,772 QphH on a 100GB database, at a cost of $1.47 per database
transaction. (The typical 3 year cost of ownership for the whole system
including software is quoted as $41,998.)
In October 2009 -
Fusion-io published a
case
study showing how their ioDrive
SSDs helped MySpace reduce server
count, claim back 50% rack space while increasing application performance
(compared to its legacy SAS RAID system) and massively decreasing electrical
power. As a result of this initial project - MySpace plans to replace all
remaining 1,770 2U servers with Fusion-io enabled servers as they reach their
end-of-life.
Also in
October 2009 - Samsung
announced
it
has invested in Fusion-io.
In November 2009 -
Fusion-io
unveiled
details of a very fast PCIe form factor,
InfiniBand
compatible, flash SSD designed for 2 undisclosed government customers. Each
ioDrive Octal card, occupies 2 slots and delivers 800,000 IOPS (4k packet
size), 6GB/s bandwidth and has upto 5TB maximum capacity (implemented by 8x
ioMemory modules.
In December 2009 - Fusion-io
announced
that its ioMemory PCIe
SSD technology has been adapted by IBM who will remarket these
solutions (initially with upto 320GB capacity) as its
High
IOPS SSD PCIe Adapters for use in System x servers.
In March
2010 - a video from Fusion-io
was featured in a new directory of
SSD videos - here on
StorageSearch.com |
| PCIe SSD
adoption accelerates Fusion-io's revenue |
Editor:- March 2, 2010 - Fusion-io disclosed
today it has experienced more than 80% quarter-over-quarter sales growth and
more than 300% sales growth year-over-year.
This emerged in an announcement that Silicon Valley veteran Dennis
Wolf has joined the company as senior VP and CFO to help it manage its
rapid growth as it continues to expand into new markets around the globe. Wolf
has led several public and private companies as CFO, COO and CEO. He brings more
than 30 years of leadership experience in high-growth technology companies, with
work in finance and other disciplines. Most recently, he served as executive VP
and CFO at MySQL where he was
integral in MySQL's growth strategy and its ultimate sale to
Sun Microsystems in a
transaction valued at $1 billion.
"In the 20 years I've been working in this industry, I've never
seen a company grow this fast and I believe we are well poised to triple our
growth in 2010," said Jim Dawson, senior VP of worldwide sales for
Fusion-io. "As a young company experiencing such incredible, rapid
expansion, Dennis' financial expertise and broad understanding of the
marketplace will be essential to our continued ability to meet customer demand." |
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Editor's comments:-
the last time I wrote an article about a bunch of storage companies with
triple digit
annual revenue growth was in 2004 - and the top 2 out of those 4 were in
the SSD market too.
Although Fusion-io is a privately held company and doesn't disclose financial
details - it's sometimes easy to tell which companies everyone seems to be
talking about. | | |
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