Fusion-io Achieves 9.6 Million IO/s

Fusion-io
Inc. announced that it has achieved 9.608 million IOPS from a single 365GB
MLC Fusion ioDrive2.

This performance is made possible using APIs
that integrate flash into host systems, allowing it to bypass normal
bottlenecks in the OS. These APIs are being used by dozens of software
companies to update their applications to embrace the future of software
defined datacenters.

The 9.6 million IOPS was accomplished with
auto-commit memory, which maintains the persistence of flash at performance
levels in the nanoseconds, running on directFS. A nonvolatile memory optimized
file system developed by Fusion-io, directFS eliminates duplicate work between
the host file system and flash memory management software. The performance
numbers were achieved utilizing single threaded, single queue depth 64B
writes to the auto-commit memory log.

"We
believe software defined datacenters will be built on industry collaboration
and open platforms, not proprietary closed systems," said David Flynn,
Fusion-io chairman and CEO. "The
future of software defined datacenters will be based on an open, unified
platform architected to leverage powerful CPUs, which need new programing
primitives and APIs to deliver the flexibility and efficiency required to meet
rapidly growing data demands."

Fusion-io is leading the development of new
APIs including auto-commit memory and directFS, which are part of the ioMemory SDK,
the first designed to integrate flash memory as a computing tier in the datacenter.
Other SDK APIs include atomic writes, which enables a processor to
simultaneously write multiple independent storage sectors as a single storage
transaction, helping to accelerate transactions in popular enterprise databases
like MySQL by up to 75% compared to traditional storage architectures.

"With
new primitives being introduced for nonvolatile memory technologies, we are at
a crossroads in computing that will profoundly increase the value of IT to
businesses," said David Vellante, chief research analyst, Wikibon.
"The demand for data increases every
day, and new and more effective ways to leverage all that data are absolutely
essential for powerful applications and datacenter servers to be fully
exploited. The future of data center infrastructure is being defined by
software and software-led advances like the file system and APIs being
developed by Fusion-io increase application performance by astounding levels.
We believe these innovations will be instrumental in the ongoing evolution of
IT architectures and data center designs."

Fusion-io is hosting a Technology Open
House to share developments in the SDK APIs, including the 9.6 million IOPS
demonstration, at its Salt Lake City, UT HQs as well as via webcast on Tuesday, March 26, 2013.