Items tagged with 'Fusion-io'

Fusion-io ioXtreme PCI Express SSD, Tested and Burned In

Fusion-io ioXtreme PCI Express SSD, Tested and Burned In

The first time we looked at Fusion-io's ioDrive product, we offered the notion that it was a "disruptive technology", something that had the potential to set the industry on its ear.  Of course the ioDrive is an enterprise-class product that showed the significant potential of PCI Express direct-attached SSD storage... Read More
Fusion-io ioXtreme PCI Express SSD Review

Fusion-io ioXtreme PCI Express SSD Review

  It's rare we get genuinely excited around here about a product.  To be honest, likely we're spoiled by all the bleeding-edge technology we have the great opportunity to look at week in and week out.  Or perhaps it's just that we're jaded a bit and have heard one too many marketing pitches, but truth be... Read More
Fusion-io ioXtreme PCI Express SSD Sneak Peek!

Fusion-io ioXtreme PCI Express SSD Sneak Peek!

If you've been watching our previous coverage of Fusion-io's almost too good be true PCI Express SSD products, you'll know that while the company makes no bones about the fact that their enterprise class cards are ridiculously expensive, they are also planning on delivering an "enthusiast" class card that will align better... Read More
Fusion-io Releases TPC-H Results; Claims To Hold Price/Performance Advantage

Fusion-io Releases TPC-H Results; Claims To Hold Price/Performance Advantage

Fusion-io announced TPC-H benchmark results today in a bid to raise its own visibility and promote solid-state storage as an alternative solution in the enterprise market. The company's PCI-Express-based products turned in a score of 28,772 Queries per Hour on a 100GB database, for a price/performance metric of $1.47 per... Read More
Fusion-io vs Intel X25-M SSD RAID, Grudge Match

Fusion-io vs Intel X25-M SSD RAID, Grudge Match

We've certainly heard of Fusion-io's bleeding edge PCI Express-based SSD solution but to date haven't yet gotten the chance to check it out on the test bench here at HotHardware.  In addition, though we've put Intel's wonderfully fast X25-M SSD through its paces in stand-alone testing, imagine what it would be like... Read More
Fusion-io vs Intel X25-M SSD RAID, Grudge Match Review

Fusion-io vs Intel X25-M SSD RAID, Grudge Match Review

Disruptive technology; it's a term thrown around these days by industry marketing types and quite frankly it's just plain getting worn out as of late.  In the mid 90s, a Harvard Business School Professor coined this phrase to describe a product innovation that breaks current convention and exceeds market expectations... Read More
Fusion-io Develops SMLC SSD Tech For Enterprise

Fusion-io Develops SMLC SSD Tech For Enterprise

Fusion-io has been breaking down walls and pushing envelopes in the solid state drive arena for as long as we can remember, and just a month after issuing the ioXtreme PCIe SSD, the company is now developing an all new class of enterprise MLC.Specifically, the oufit has developed a new engineering technique for managing... Read More
Fusion-io And Fatal1ty Debut ioXtreme PCIe SSD

Fusion-io And Fatal1ty Debut ioXtreme PCIe SSD

Fusion-io is a company name that has become synonymous with high-priced but ridiculously fast Solid State Storage solutions. Unfortunately for those without loads of disposable income, the outfit's newest creation still isn't budget-friendly, but it's certainly cheaper than Fusion-io's other enterprise-based wares.... Read More
Fusion-io Lands New Funding and CEO

Fusion-io Lands New Funding and CEO

Fusion-io, the company responsible for bringing some of the fastest SSD solutions on the planet to mission-critical applications and affluent consumers, has just landed a new round of funding in order to further dominate the market. Just after launching its ioDrive Duo and naming Steve Wozniak as the firm's Chief Scientist,... Read More
Fusion-io Reveals Wicked Fast ioDrive Duo SSDs

Fusion-io Reveals Wicked Fast ioDrive Duo SSDs

Fusion-io, the company famous for producing the world's fastest and most expensive SSD solution, is back again with another blazing fast innovation. This time, we're drooling over the ioDrive Duo, which is hailed as the fastest and most innovative SSD this planet has ever seen. Per usual, the server-based PCI Express SSD... Read More
Steve Wozniak To Be Fusion-io's Chief Scientist

Steve Wozniak To Be Fusion-io's Chief Scientist

Steve Wozniak, the Segway-riding co-founder of Apple, has found himself deeply entangled in yet another company other than the Cupertino powerhouse that he helped build. Just 1.5 years after Woz decided to back a startup dubbed Hotswap, the technophile has decided to accept a new role at storage specialist Fusion-io. Said... Read More
Fusion-io NAND Flash PCIe Drive, Blinding Speed

Fusion-io NAND Flash PCIe Drive, Blinding Speed

How about a 80, 160, 320 or 640Gig NAND Flash drive on PCI Express card?  Sounds interesting, right?  What if we told you such a product could hit an amazing 800MB/sec sustained data rate?  OK, so it's an expensive Enterprise SAN type product but great oogly-moogly!  That's some blinding speed.  Salt Lake's Fusion-io is... Read More