HP Opts for Fusion-io to Accelerate Servers With NAND Flash Technology

Fusion-io, in solid-state architecture and high-performance input/output (I/O) solutions, is working with HP to accelerate enterprise server application performance using its innovative I/O storage technology. The two companies are adapting Fusion-io’s ioMemory architecture, which transforms data centers by dramatically improving data access performance, physical space usage and energy efficiency, to HP’s enterprise-class servers including the industry-leading HP BladeSystem c-Class system.

"Fusion-io’s work with HP is an acknowledgment of the benefits of a solid-state storage solution that addresses latency and bottlenecks at the server level," said Don Basile, CEO of Fusion-io. "Adapting this technology specifically for HP servers offers radical increases in associated performance for a broad range of applications and workloads and can dramatically improve the effectiveness of data center architectures. With our ioMemory architecture, we’re getting more than 200,000 IOPS within HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades today. So, working together with HP was the natural place to begin building upon our next generation technology."

Combining Fusion-io’s innovative silicon-based storage technology with HP’s enterprise-class servers will revolutionize how enterprises access and store large amounts of active data with breakthrough performance for I/O intensive applications. Fusion-io’s ioMemory architecture cost-effectively reduces the server/storage performance gap, enabling read-intensive I/O applications to run much faster while also increasing performance of high-transaction, write-intensive I/O applications. This provides customers with unparalleled performance — virtually eliminating latency and bottlenecks at the application level — at a lower overall cost, while consuming dramatically less power than traditional solutions.

"Customers are faced with increasing demands for better application performance from their technology infrastructure," said Lee Johns, director of marketing, StorageWorks Entry Storage and Storage Blades, HP. "Combining Fusion-io’s ioMemory architecture with HP servers will allow customers to deploy high-performance storage solutions for their application needs while reducing requirements for data center space, power and cooling."