Fusion-io With Two Integrated Application Acceleration Appliances

Fusion-io, Inc. announced that the all-flash ION Accelerator appliance and ioControl Hybrid Storage appliance are now being offered as integrated solutions from VARs.

All-flash ION Accelerator appliance

Featuring the performance and reliability of Fusion ioMemory, the integrated all-flash and hybrid flash appliances are simple to deploy, purpose-built solutions for accelerating enterprise applications including Oracle, SAP HANA, and SQL Server, as well as virtualization workloads.

The flash appliances enhance existing IT infrastructure by delivering application-focused performance for data-intensive workloads, allowing general purpose storage systems to focus on managing data capacity.

“Enterprises of all sizes trust Fusion-io flash memory to accelerate the applications that are critical to their success, and with integrated all-flash and hybrid flash appliances, Fusion-io is making it easier than ever to add performance that enhances existing IT infrastructure,” said Gary Smerdon, Fusion-io chief strategy officer. “Fusion-io is pleased to provide our integrated solutions to our partners interested in offering customers ready-to-ship appliances that optimize the potential of flash as a scalable persistent memory.“

The ION Accelerator appliance maximizes data-intensive application performance in an all-flash solution that leverages the architecture of ioMemory. Fusion-io partners have set records with the ION Accelerator solution that boosts application performance by up to 40x while enhancing traditional storage by offloading workload demands. The scalable all-flash ION Accelerator appliance features up to 32TB of persistent, low latency flash memory with simple management and integration with enterprise applications in both physical and virtual environments.

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The ioControl hybrid flash appliance delivers enterprise flash memory performance that accelerates databases, applications and VDI by up to 10x in a cost-effective solution that enables IT professionals to provision performance like capacity. A scalable appliance for SMEs, it eliminates application workload unpredictability in the datacenter by assigning automated performance policies to define IO/s, throughput and latency performance minimums for each application.

ioControl is an hybrid appliance architected with persistent, low latency ioMemory flash performance, and is also an hybrid flash solution that provides the ability to prioritize shared storage resources across mission-critical, business-critical and non-critical applications.

“We have demanding users who need reliable access to complex files and digital models,” said Tim Rice, IT director at Seattle-based LMN Architects. “We didn’t want to buy yesterday’s technology. We wanted our new storage system to provide enough capacity and performance to ensure we wouldn’t outgrow it in the near term. I like the next-generation ioControl hybrid approach, which gets everything out in front of the controllers with PCIe flash memory from Fusion-io. Now we don’t have to give performance a second thought.”

“Solid state storage will have a profound effect on the future of enterprise storage and has already transformed the enterprise datacenter,” said Jeff Janukowicz, IDC research director. “IDC believes primary application acceleration will drive the need for subsequent acceleration downstream, creating new and unforeseen demand. The enterprise all-SSS array market is one of the most critical new drivers of the storage industry.”

The ION Accelerator appliance is available to early access customers and will be widely available in Spring 2014 from Fusion-io VARs in North America.

The ioControl Hybrid Storage appliance is available from Fusion-io VARs in North America and EMEA.