1. ABOUT FUSION-IO<br />Fusion-io is a leading provider of data-centric computing solutions - a combination of hardware and software that places data closer to processing, resulting in dramatic improvements in both performance and efficiency. The company was founded in 2006 by a group of experts with successful track records in the fields of transaction processing, high-performance networking, storage and superclusters, and computing and image processing. With OEM relationships with the industry's leading server vendors, including HP, IBM, and Dell, Fusion-io offers broad range deployment options for companies of any size.<br />With Fusion-io, customers are ushering in a new era of memory-based computing, realizing more than 10:1 server consolidation ratios, eliminating expensive storage infrastructure, and slashing power and cooling expenses. Fusion’s family of NAND flash-based ioMemory technologies are powering innovation throughout the enterprise by offering a solution that scales to meet the needs of IT administrators and partners and allows them to re-imagine how data centers can be architected.<br />Fusion's ioMemory is an entirely new building block for data center applications. Containing 100 times the density of RAM, ioMemory overcomes the physical and thermal limitations of the medium and provides applications near limitless amounts of fully scalable memory for accelerating throughput, driving higher performance density and efficiency in application server platforms. A single ioMemory module has the capacity of 100 memory modules, and the performance of 1,000 disk drives, making it the one of the industry’s most efficient and cost effective medium for processing large amounts of data very quickly.<br />Fusion’s software solutions are built on the ioMemory Virtual Storage Layer (VSL), a new, flash-optimized OS subsystem that allows ioMemory to interact with the CPU and system memory as a new tier of memory, and yet emulates a block-based storage device to applications. Fusion's ioMemory VSL also enables sophisticated reliability and endurance-enhancing techniques to transform even the most challenging underlying medium (flash or other) into a dependable, reliable, long-lasting enterprise-grade product.<br />Fusion-io was named the number one venture capital-funded technology company in 2010 by The Wall Street Journal. <br />