Emulex and Fusion-io Team

Emulex Corporation is working with Fusion-io, Inc. to deliver integrated, customized I/O caching and connectivity solutions for tier 1 OEMs, accelerating the performance of databases, data warehouses, heavily virtualized environments and private/hybrid clouds with improved throughput and application response time.

The solution was demonstrated at Oracle OpenWorld consists of Emulex’s newly announced LightPulse LPe16000B series of 16GFC HBAs, Fusion-io ioDrive2 PCIe-based flash memory connected to ION Data Accelerator software for caching and fast access to shared storage.

"Enterprise workloads are becoming more demanding, data is proliferating and shared FC-based storage remains the trusted connectivity protocol for storage area networks (SANs) and the primary backbone of the data center," said Shaun Walsh, SVP of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. "Emulex is partnering with flash memory providers such as Fusion-io to deliver integrated and differentiated I/O caching and connectivity solutions that complement our OEM customers’ offerings for performance hungry applications including databases, warehouses, heavily virtualized environments and private/hybrid clouds."

Emulex’s tenth generation LPe16000B 16GFC HBAs offer 1.2 million IOPS on a single port. These HBAs deliver performance along with reliability, manageability and data integrity, complementing the persistent, high capacity ioMemory platform, which leverages flash memory to increase data center efficiency with enterprise grade performance, reliability, availability and manageability. The manageability and performance of the overall solution is enhanced with the use of Emulex OneCommand Vision, a proactive performance management solution designed to optimize storage I/O resources within virtualized and cloud environments.

"Emulex’s dedication to providing fast storage connectivity solutions makes them a natural fit with Fusion-io, as we are both providing innovative solutions that disrupt the status quo and change the way data centers have been architected for decades," said Tyler Smith, VP of Alliances, Fusion-io. "By pairing Emulex technology with native ioMemory access to flash memory, customers can accelerate their applications and significantly reduce complex and expensive storage sprawl."