Some of the Points David and Craig Discussed

As we move towards an increasingly always-on, always-connected society, the limitations of existing IT strategies quickly become apparent. Amidst these new realities, the role of storage – which traditionally has lived behind the scenes – is being thrust to the forefront. The storage behind applications, PCs and servers has a very real impact on the quality of the user experience. Storage performance is increasingly the make or break decision gating application performance.

Fusion-io’s technology is the same technology you carry in your pocket or bag every day—flash memory chips, the tiny circuits inside MP3 music players, smart phones, and USB flash drives. Fusion-io crams a lot of these chips onto a card. Insert the ioDrive card into a garden-variety Web server that costs tens of thousands of dollars, and you end up with a server that performs much like a high-end storage area network (SAN) that costs tens of millions.

Fusion-io’s technology, based on NAND flash, can save enterprises by offering IT departments a new type of solution to address their growing data performance requirements, while also lowering their total cost of ownership and operating expenses.

Fusion-io utilizes state-of-the-art NAND flash modules (the ioMemory module) on a PCI Express card that fits directly into the server. Its customers gain competitive advantage in a non-invasive way, leveraging their existing IT investment to gain additional performance by utilizing existing server infrastructure.

Independent third-party validation has shown that the ioDrive improves storage I/O performance by as much as 1000 times over traditional disk arrays, while operating at 1/100th the power required and at 1/10th the total cost of ownership of today’s fastest enterprise storage solutions.

Fusion-io’s technologies can bring these savings to the data center at under $15 per gig – a substantial savings when compared to those offered by traditional storage array providers.

Fusion-io’s technology also reduces other data center resources, including equipment, floor space and temperature and humidity conditioning – all affecting the bottom line.

About David Flynn

David Flynn - Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and one of the company's founders, David Flynn is the visionary behind Fusion-io's innovative technology. Mr. Flynn is responsible for providing business-focused oversight of the company's research and development efforts, as well as driving the company's short- and long-term technological direction.



Mr. Flynn has a history of successfully architecting complex computer-related solutions, including some of the world's largest and fastest supercomputers and the world's smallest personal Linux servers; embedded Web 2.0 interactive TV; image processing; relational databases; file systems; and thin-client computing products.



Prior to joining Fusion-io, Mr. Flynn served as Project BlackDog's chief scientist and vice president, engineering. He has also held positions at Linux Networx and Network Computer Incorporated (NCI), a spin-off of Oracle Corporation.



Mr. Flynn holds a B.S. in Computer Science and serves on the Technology Advisory Boards for the College of Information Technology at Brigham Young University and Techniscan Medical Systems.



Mr. Flynn embraced technology at an early age. While attending Brigham Young University, Flynn created 3D-GIS (graphics information systems) for noise control at Boston Logan International and Salt Lake International airports as technical lead at Larson Davis Laboratories. At 16, he designed and authored 3D flight simulation and image processing software for the Department of Defense, while working for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Prior to that, he created and marketed flight-planning software for general aviation pilots.

About Fusion-io

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Fusion-io is a leading provider of enterprise solid-state technology and high-performance I/O solutions that unlock a world of possibilities for performance-starved applications, closing the gap between processing power and storage performance. 

The increasing demand for a next generation solid state storage technology is driven by advancements in computer processors which, following Moore's Law, have grown exponentially in performance.

Mechanical disks, on the other hand, follow Newtonian Dynamics and experience lackluster performance improvements, introducing a performance gap. Ushering in a new era of silicon-based storage, Fusion-io offers several magnitudes of breakthrough performance at a fraction of the cost of today's traditional disk-based storage systems. The company's ioMemory architecture creates a new tier in the memory hierarchy - one that has 100 times the capacity density and 10 times the capacity per dollar of DRAM. NAND flash-based ioMemory makes it possible to have terabytes of near-memory-speed storage within each node - bringing extremely large memory problems and I/O bound analysis to a new level of cost effectiveness. 



Founded in 2006 by a team of experts with successful track records in the fields of transaction processing, high performance networking, storage and superclusters, computing and image processing, Fusion-io's executive team has a long history of building companies that deliver game-changing and innovative technologies to the marketplace.