SALT LAKE CITY, BUSINESS WIRE — Fusion-io, a leading provider of enterprise solid-state architecture and high-performance I/O solutions, today announced that Steve Wozniak has joined the company’s advisory board. Wozniak is co-founder of Apple Inc. and the engineer who launched the home computer revolution.
In his role at Fusion-io, Wozniak will advise the company’s CEO, Don Basile, on future market trends; consult with senior management on company R&D efforts and product road-mapping; and introduce Fusion-io to key strategic alliances in the industry, as well as sales opportunities.

“Seldom have I seen technology advances that win in almost every way at the same time, in terms of speed, capacity, reliability, endurance, power usage and simplicity,” said Wozniak. “The products from Fusion-io are extremely useful to so many different applications, not to mention most of the world’s servers.”

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Iron Capital is hosting our Fall Investor Conference at the Bankers Club atop the Bank of America building in San Francisco, Sept 4th from 10am-2pm. Accredited investors who attend will be able hear from some of the best private technology companies in the country. This year we have companies who compete in enterprise storage, mobile advertising, wireless POS, and audio technology.

Here is a list of some of the companies that will present:

Fusion IO- Market leader in Enterprise Flash storage systems

Presenter: Dr. Don Basile, CEO

Verve Wireless- AP Mobile News Network platform as a service provider

Presenter: Tom Kenney, President

TriniTEQ- A leader in wireless POS technologies for the hospitality market

Presenter: Scott Allan, CEO

Xp Audio Inc- An innovator in music equipment technologies

Presenter: John Johnson, CEO

Sim Ops Studios- 3D media productions(Carnegie Mellon Spin out)

Presenter: Shanna Tellerman, CEO

ONLY 80 SEATS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THIS EVENT.

COMPLIMENTARY FOOD AND DRINKS WILL BE SERVED.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

From today’s NYT article- How to Save Local Newspapers: Cellphones

Verve’ Wireless’s mission is to save the local paper by making it mobile. It provides publishers with the technology to create mobile Web sites, so readers can read the paper on their cell phones. Verve or the newspaper then sell ads on those sites. Verve already powers mobile versions of 4,000 newspapers from 140 publishers, including the Associated Press, McClatchy, and the New York Times Regional Media Group.

The A.P. started using its Verve-powered Mobile News Network in May. It apparently liked it enough to invest in the company. Verve Wireless has raised $3 million in its second round of fundraising, led by its biggest customer, the Associated Press. Iron Capital and a third investor, not yet disclosed because the deal is still being finalized, also participated in the round.

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LAS VEGAS — Fusion-io, a leader 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.

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Company Has Reinvented Storage and Storage Architecture to Leverage New Advances in Solid State Design and Manufacturing

SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fusion-io, the leader in enterprise solid-state architecture and high performance I/O solutions, today announced that it has closed $19M in Series A funding from a group of investors led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of the leading U.S.-based venture capitalist firms.

“The breakthrough technology Fusion-io has developed will change the way companies think about their storage architecture,” said Scott Sandell, general partner, NEA. “The company’s innovative plug-and-play approach to storage will open up a world of possibilities previously not available with traditional storage architecture.”

Founded in 2006, Fusion-io, has reinvented storage and storage architecture to leverage new advances in solid state design and manufacturing. The funds from this round will be used to manufacture the company’s first product, the ioDrive – a PCIe Card that delivers the power of a storage area network (SAN) at a fraction of the size and power.

“Our investors have recognized that Fusion-io is an innovator and they are committed to providing the company with the best resources to succeed,” said David Flynn, co-founder and chief technology officer, Fusion-io.

Don Basile, chief executive officer, Fusion-io noted that “the present investment in Fusion-io shows confidence in our product and technology, and validates our goal to deliver the best product on the market.”

About Fusion-io

Founded in 2006, and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Fusion-io is a technology leader in enterprise solid-state architecture and high performance I/O solutions that unlock a world of possibilities for performance-starved applications. Ushering in a new era of silicon-based storage, Fusion-io offers several magnitudes of breakthrough performance at a fraction of both the capital and operating costs of today’s traditional disk-based storage systems. The company’s first product, the ioDrive, puts the performance of a SAN in the palm of your hand.

Imagine being able to add a multi-rack disk array to your network — without buying a new system. That’s the idea behind Fusion-io’s still-nascent ioDrive.

The ioDrive is a NAND-based PCI Express (PCIe) card equipped with a technology called ioMemory (short for Indexed Object Memory). It combines the ability to run high-density NAND chips in parallel with high-speed switching and networking protocols. According to Fusion-io, the result is a storage network on a card.

Fusion-io says ioDrive is not an SSD, although it’s clearly going to compete with a range of SSDs and related technologies that also are designed to surmount speed and capacity obstacles of traditional hard disk drives.

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