Blog

The Fusion-io IPO earlier this year captured a lot of attention, and their recent financial results show that there's a very healthy demand for flash in the enterprise. Fusion-io's plan to acquire IO Turbine further validates the importance of server-tier caching, which we have experienced first-hand in numerous successful implementations of FlashSoft's software.

So, why is SSD-based caching in a server such a big deal? Because right now the typical server is running at just a fraction of its potential because it is bottlenecked by IO latency.

For a company that spends far more cycles developing software than marketing itself, the past few weeks have felt a little surreal. But since we got our first product release out the door and into customers' hands, and Thomvest stepped up to lead the funding for our next stage of growth, it was time to go public about the progress we'd made so far. And we're really glad that we did.

Flash can provide enormous benefits in IO performance, but Flash is not cheap. That's why it's critical that when you choose to address IO latency with Flash, you put the Flash where it can do the most good. And that's in the server. Right next to the memory and CPU. Not on the other side of a SAN, on top of a storage appliance. A few storage vendors have integrated Flash in their appliances, and more will do so. Because it does improve the performance of the appliance.