ioDrive From Fusion-io Available

Fusion-io, a leader in enterprise solid-state architecture and
high-performance I/O solutions, announced that the ioDrive, the
company’s first product, will begin shipping
on April 7th. The ioDrive is a PCIe card based on a new storage
architecture which enables it to deliver the power of a storage area
network (SAN) at a fraction of the power, size and cost of traditional
disk arrays.

Fusion-io is ushering in a new era of silicon-based storage, offering
breakthrough performance at a cost/capacity that is a fraction of
traditional storage systems, and opening up a world of possibilities via
the world’s first high-performance direct-attached storage (DAS), with
I/O performance equal to today’s fastest
high-end SAN solutions. The ioDrive leverages Fusion-io’s proprietary
ioMemory architecture to create a single PCIe card that operates as
either local storage or storage cache, making it easy for any level
system administrator to deploy and manage. Capable of being installed
transparently at multiple points in existing data centers or
workstations, the ioDrive requires no changes to applications or
infrastructure or complex management software.

“The ioDrive is a radical departure from
traditional storage solutions and will change the way businesses think
about their storage architecture,” said Don
Basile, chairman and CEO, Fusion-io. “Specifically
designed for the enterprise, the ioDrive offers a best-of-breed solution
for drop-in storage.”

The ioDrive is the industry’s first NAND-based enterprise storage
solution that provides access rates comparable to DRAM, with storage
capacity on par with disks, enabling it to improve both memory capacity
and storage performance. Given its performance and dual functionality,
the ioDrive has the potential to reduce the need for enterprises to buy
expensive, high performance fibre channel disks, fibre channel switches,
RAID controllers, HBAs, exotic disks, caching appliances, excessive
cabling or custom software, eliminating application I/O bottlenecks even
during peak loads.

The ioDrive is currently available at a cost of approximately $2400 for
80 GB, $4800 for 160 GB and $8900 for 320 GB.

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