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No longer content to Segway up and down the boulevard of Infinite Loop
listening to his iPod or teaching children about computers,
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has accepted the role of chief scientist
at solid state storage provider Fusion-io.
Wozniak is widely recognized as the technical
brains behind the early Apple computer models including the landmark
Apple II, the forerunner of today's personal computers. He retired from
Apple in 1985 and has played no part in the corporate world since then,
although he is on record as saying that he would someday like to join a
startup and recreate the fun of Apple II.
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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