state storage founded 2005 headquarters san jose california cottonwood heights utah u.s. key people shane robison 1 president and ceo steve wozniak chief scientist products hardware ioscale iodrive2 iodrive2 duo iocontrol iofx software vsl iosphere iomemory sdk ioturbine ion data accelerator iovdi parent sandisk corporation website www.fusionio.com hp io accelerator card in 2009 sandisk fusion iomemory px600 5200 5.2 tb fh hl pci e ssd . nexgen n5 in 2012 renamed iocontrol hybrid storage ion accelerator fusion io inc. was a computer hardware and software systems company acquired by sandisk corporation in 2014 based in cottonwood heights utah that designed and manufactured products using flash memory technology . the fusion iomemory platform accelerates enterprise applications such as databases virtualization cloud computing big data by integrating hardware and software to overcome the limitations of legacy architectures and specialized hardware . 2 contents 1 history 2 technology 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded in december 2005 as canvas technologies in nevada . co founders were david flynn and rick white . the company was based in cottonwood heights utah near salt lake city . in june 2006 the company name was changed to fusion multisystems incorporated . 3 4 a product with the brand name iodrive was demonstrated and announced in september 2007 . 5 in march 2008 fusion io raised 19 million in a series a round of funding from a group of investors led by new enterprise associates . 6 david flynn was chief technology officer while don basile was chief executive officer at the time . 6 michael dell invested in fusion io during this round . 7 it was chosen as an innovation up and comer in an online business week poll by early 2009 . 7 in 2009 and 2010 david bradford served as ceo . in february 2009 fusion io hired apple inc. co founder steve wozniak as chief scientist . 8 it was chosen by red herring magazine as a top 100 company in february 2009 . 9 fusion io announced 47.5 million in a series b round of investment led by lightspeed venture partners in april 2009 . 10 11 hardware partner samsung later invested in fusion io in october 2009 . 12 a third round of funding led by meritech capital partners with additional capital from accel partners and andreessen horowitz provided a total of 45 million in april 2010 . 13 it was named the second most promising information technology company by the wall street journal in march 2010 . 14 in may 2010 the linux block io principal developer jens axboe joined fusion io after leaving oracle . 15 fusion io first filed for an initial public offering ipo in march 2011 with shares to be listed on the new york stock exchange with symbol fio . 4 at the time facebook accounted for most of its revenues . in june 2011 fusion io announced it increased the price of its ipo to put the company s total value at 1.4 billion . the company had previously priced its shares to value the company at about 1.17 billion . 16 the shares were offered on june 9 raising the valuation to about 2 billion . 17 on august 5 2011 fusion io acquired io turbine for about 95 million . 18 io turbine s main product was the ioturbine hybrid array caching to flash software which is virtualization aware particularly of vmware environments . 19 20 in january 2012 fusion io achieved a record breaking billion iops from eight servers at the demo enterprise event in san francisco . citation needed in june 2012 the btrfs principal developers chris mason joined fusion io after leaving oracle 21 and josef bacik left red hat to join fusion io . 22 in august 2012 fusion io announced the ion data accelerator software . 23 since february 2014 the ion product is offered as an appliance instead of a software product . 24 in march 2013 fusion io acquired the linux software defined storage firm id7 developers of the scst generic scsi target layer . 25 26 at storage field day 3 fusion io announced their acquisition of nexgen storage in april 2013 for 114 million cash and 5 million in stock . 27 28 nexgen was located in louisville colorado and had a product it called n5 which it announced in november 2011 and upgraded in july 2012 . 29 30 31 the n5 was a hybrid product including hard disk drives as well as flash memory aiming to provide more consistent performance guarantees than only disks . 32 the n5 was renamed iocontrol hybrid storage after acquisition . 33 in may 2013 the co founders david flynn ceo and rick white cmo left . in october 2013 dennis wolff its cfo left . 34 35 in november 2013 the btrfs developers chris mason and josef bacik left fusion io for facebook . 36 37 a scalable multi queue block layer for the linux kernel was developed by fusion io engineers axboe and shaohua li and merged into the linux kernel mainline in kernel version 3.13 released on january 19 2014 . this new block layer uses parallelism and thus provides much higher performance offered by ssds using nvm express . with the release of linux kernel version 3.13 only the virtioblk driver has been modified to actually use this new interface . a technical presentation paper of this new feature was published at acm systor 13 . 38 39 40 in january 2014 jens axboe announced he was leaving fusion io to join facebook . 41 in 2012 and 2013 fusion io was criticized for depending too heavily on two major customers facebook and apple . 42 43 44 however during the f2q 2014 earnings call it was made clear that in q2 the orders of twelve customers exceeded 1 million each . 45 in june 2014 sandisk announced its intentions to buy fusion io . 46 sandisk completed its acquisition of fusion io in july 2014 . 47 technology edit fusion io called their ssd architecture iomemory . 5 it was announced at the demo conference in 2007 and software called iosan was shown in 2008 . 48 in march 2009 hewlett packard announced the hp storageworks io accelerator adaptation of fusion io technology specifically for hp s bladesystem c series servers . 49 50 fusion io had other partnerships with ibm dell cisco fujitsu and supermicro . 7 51 ibm s project quicksilver 52 based on fusion io technology showed that solid state technology in 2008 could deliver 1 million iops . 53 as of december 2009 ibm offered the high iops ssd pcie adapter based on the iodrive for ibm servers . 51 54 references edit management team fusion io . retrieved 2013 05 28 . about company . fusion io fusionio.com . entity actions for fusion multisystems inc. . company registration information . nevada secretary of state . retrieved october 15 2013 . a b fusion io march 9 2011 . prospectus . form s 1 . us securities and exchange commission . retrieved october 15 2013 . a b fusion io announces iodrive placing the power of a san in the palm of your hand pdf . press release . fusion io . september 25 2007 . archived from the original pdf on may 9 2010 . retrieved october 15 2013 . a b fusion io closes 19m in series a funding pdf . press 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