Fusion-io is a
computer hardware and software systems company based in Cottonwood Heights,
Utah , that designs and manufactures what it calls a new memory tier based
on NAND Flash Memory. technology. It was named the second most promising
information technology company by The Wall Street Journal n March
2010.
Founded in late 2005 as Fusion Multisystems,
Inc., it was producing products by 2007. It attracted attention in
February 2009 by hiring Apple Inc. co-founder Steve
Wozniak as its chief scientist. In May 2010, the Linux
block-io principal developer, Jens
Axboe, joined Fusion-io after leaving Oracle.In June 2012, the Btrfs principal
developer Chris Mason joined Fusion-io after leaving Oracle. In June 2012,
Josef Bacik ex-Red Hat filesystem hacker, Btrfs developer
joined Fusion-io.
Fusion-io has partnerships with Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Cisco and Supermicro,
which is due in part to its server-centric architecture called
ioMemory. IBM’s project Quicksilver, based on Fusion-io technology,
showed that solid-state technology in 2008 could deliver the fastest
performance of its time: 1 million IOPS] As of
December 2009, IBM has offered the High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapter, based on
the ioDrive, as the only PCIe-based solid-state storage
solution for use in IBM servers. HP worked with Fusion-io to create
the IO Accelerator specifically for HP's
BladeSystem C-Series servers in March 2009.
Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak: (born
August 11, 1950), known as Woz, is an American inventor, computer engineer andprogrammer who
co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak
single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers
in the 1970s. These computers contributed significantly to the microcomputer
revolution.
Patents Wozniak
is listed as the sole inventor on the following patents:
• US
Patent No. 4,136,359 — "Microcomputer for use with video
display" — for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall
of Fame.
• US
Patent No. 4,210,959 — "Controller for magnetic disc, recorder, or the
like"
US Patent No. 4,278,972 —
"Digitally-controlled color signal generation means for use with
display"
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