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VIRTUALISATION Wozniak solid state storage scientist at Fusion-io
VIRTUALISATION Wozniak solid state storage scientist at Fusion-io | Wozniak solid state storage scientist at Fusion-io |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 17 February 2009 | |
  
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Utah-based Fusion-io, which was founded in 2006, may well be the startup that Wozniak was talking about. The company's solid state storage products are based on NAND flash memory and Fusion-io makes no bones about its intention to make magnetic disk storage obsolete. According to Fusion-io, Wozniak will act as a key technical advisor to the Fusion-io research and development group. He will also work closely with the executive team of Fusion-io in formulating a company strategy that will accelerate the expansion of major global accounts. “With the revolutionary technological advances being made by Fusion-io, the company is in the right place at the right time with the right technology and ready to direct the history of technology into the 21st century and beyond,” said Wozniak. “The technology marketplace has not seen such capacity for innovation and radical transformation since the mainframe computer was replaced by the home computer. Fusion-io’s technology is extremely useful to many different applications and almost all of the world’s servers,” he added. Prior to his appointment as chief scientist at Fusion-io, Wozniak was a member of the company’s advisory board, where he counselled the company on market trends, product road maps and other strategic activities. Wozniak will continue to advise the Fusion-io team on these vital issues. The company’s ioDrive is claimed to be the first direct-attached, solid-state storage technology on a PCIExpress (PCIe), with an I/O performance that is claimed to surpass that of mechanical disks by hundreds of times. Fusion-io is currently working with IBM on its Project Quicksilver to easily achieve over 1,000,000 IOPS by presenting multiple ioDrives as a shared storage solution. “Steve Wozniak has been among the most elite innovators of his age and we are honored by his enthusiasm for our technology and our company,” said Don Basile, CEO of Fusion-io. “Steve’s inventions and insights have inspired generations of IT professionals and we look forward to the influence he will have on the future direction of Fusion-io as we continue to transform the enterprise.” |
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