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Storage start-up boasts speed of 1,000 disk drives in one small package

Fusion-io ships product, gains $19 million in venture funding
By Jon Brodkin , Network World , 03/31/2008
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A storage start-up called Fusion-io that claims it can deliver speeds 1,000 times faster than a single disk drive is making its first product generally available on April 7 and has secured $19 million in venture capital. (Compare storage products.)

Fusion-io, which launched at Network World’s DEMOfall 07, claims to deliver the power of a storage-area network (SAN) at a fraction of the power and cost with its silicon-based product called the ioDrive that fits into a PCIe slot.

Initially available in sizes ranging from 80Gb to 320Gb, Fusion-io says the PCIe card delivers 100,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second). A single disk drive typically delivers about 100 IOPS, so one ioDrive card delivers speed that’s equivalent to 1,000 disk drives aggregated in a SAN, Fusion-io officials say.

“It’s an interesting approach,” says analyst Deni Connor of Storage Strategies NOW, and author of Network World's Storage newsletter. “I don’t necessarily believe they’re going to replace SANs. It’s a good approach for giving new life to servers for running transaction-intensive operations.” (Compare server products.)

Fusion-io’s technology is analogous to EMC’s recently introduced flash-based solid state disk product dubbed “tier zero,” Connor says. The Fusion-io PCIe card would be useful for SQL Server or Oracle databases, and also allows customers to extend use of direct-attached storage in servers, she says.

While Fusion-io says it is targeting enterprises, Connor says that SAN will remain the technology of choice for very large transaction-intensive environments such as CRM applications and customer-facing Web applications. Enterprises may choose to use both Fusion-io technology and disk drives, she says.

Fusion-io, founded in 2006 and based in Salt Lake City, raised $19 million in a funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, the company announced Monday. Fusion-io was founded by CEO Don Basile, CTO David Flynn, and chief marketing officer Rick White.

Fusion-io has more than 60 paying customers already, mainly large Internet properties and financial institutions, according to Basile, who previously held positions with several cable and Internet start-ups, and worked in venture capital.

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