US Navy Tested Fusion-io

Fusion-io Inc.
announced that its technology was found to provide an average performance
improvement of 800 percent when compared to traditional RAI- 5 storage
technologies in testing done by the US Navy.

The test results, carried out by researchers at the Space and Naval
Warfare Systems Center Atlantic (SSC Atlantic) in Charleston, SC, are
detailed in a newly available white paper entitled: Fusion-io ioDrive Performance Testing: A Comparative Study on Storage
Performance Improvement using Fusion-io Technology. The complete
white paper can be downloaded here.

"In the field,
actionable information must often be determined in mere seconds to guide the
outcome of a battle or an appropriate disaster response," said Cary
Humphries, Enterprise Systems Engineering, SPAWAR Systems
Center. "The performance improvements and reduced
latency realized in testing with Fusion-io products demonstrate that
flash-based technologies could provide significant acceleration for military
organizations that require fast access to data."

The benchmark utility established by SSC Atlantic to compare
the technologies’ performance measured sequential reading, sequential writing, random reading and random writing, and stress testing. The white paper notes
that average performance increase of 800 percent was observed while evaluating
database queries using the test utility on a host server with a Fusion ioDrive
and a host using a traditional RAID-5 infrastructure. Both hosts ran the
Windows 2008 R2 64-bit Datacenter operating system with an Oracle 11g database.

"The Navy’s test
results demonstrate that using storage memory to host an organization’s most
critical data in the server where it is processed can greatly reduce latency
and increase performance," said Fred Vasofsky, Fusion-io Vice
President of Federal Systems. "We
are proud to be working with SSC Atlantic and other areas in the US Department
of Defense to reliably decrease the time it takes to turn massive amounts of
data into actionable information and help the military continue to achieve its
mission by increasing IT performance and reliability while significantly
reducing costs."