Fusion-io nabs more funding, teases new PCIe-based ioSAN

Given Fusion-io's dominance in the SSD-on-a-PCIe-card arena, we aren't at all shocked to hear that it just landed a nice fat check in its Series B funding efforts. $47.5 million, to be precise. According to the firm, it'll use the dough to buy bottled unicorns, a kilo of fairy dust and "increase production capabilities" in order to pump out more wares (and hopefully at lower prices). One of those products, we're told, will be the summer-bound ioSAN, which is explained as a "PCI Express-based product that extends the raw power of Fusion-io's solid-state technology across the network." In related news, the company also selected David Bradford to be its CEO, instantly making him one of the most fortunate bigwigs in the world right now.

[Via HotHardware]

[The Fink Posted Apr 7th 2009 3:06PM]

"raw power" :rolleyes: STFU

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 7th 2009 3:14PM]

Fusion-io is the Broly of the computer world.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t1/MegaZeo/Motivational%20Posters/1218936154721.jpg

[barCODE Posted Apr 7th 2009 3:16PM]

FusionIO is awesome, but totally meaningless to most power users (gamers) if you cannot boot from them

[TheRealMikeyG Posted Apr 7th 2009 4:20PM]

gamers are power users?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Database servers are power users and that is squarely where these are marketed.

[barCODE Posted Apr 7th 2009 7:25PM]

I know of a few people who would drop a nice dollar for a storage system that can deliver like the fusionIO.

[TomTom2010 Posted Apr 7th 2009 3:18PM]

No hand reflection on visor, FAKE!!!

[Ryan P Posted Apr 7th 2009 3:34PM]

This picture made me laugh for some reason.

[wicketr Posted Apr 7th 2009 3:51PM]

"a kilo of fairy dust"

is another way of saying 'cocaine'?

[TheRealMikeyG Posted Apr 7th 2009 4:22PM]

PCP.


AKA angel dust, fairy dust, pixie dust, server magic dust....


how else do you think they keep sysadmins working for days straight when the db server crashes.......

[CaptainReynolds Posted Apr 7th 2009 5:29PM]

$47.5 million, huh.. you sure that's not how much the fucking stupid PCIe Solid Shit Drive costs?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2009 10:36AM]

There's a few more bits of information about the ioSAN available in an older press release, for those who are curious ( http://news.softpedia.com/news/ioSAN-World-039-s-First-Networked-Enterprise-SSD-93259.shtml ).

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2009 12:25PM]

I can't wait to get one of these Fusion-io drives installed on my system. Hopefully this will set the standard for all hard drives. I saw some more cool information about Fusion-io in another blog, http://utahbusiness.com/blog/2009/04/cool-hot-fast-new-technology/