Fusion-io Flash Memory Helps Yelp Deliver Reviews on Short Order

Fusion-io, Inc. announced that Yelp, Inc., the company that connects customers with great local businesses, is accelerating its databases using Fusion ioMemory solutions.

With Fusion-io enterprise flash memory, the Yelp engineering team ensures that users can search and find local restaurants, boutiques and other businesses in an instant flash makes it fast for Yelp to deliver value-added services such as ordering from directly within the Yelp mobile application, fueling commerce through rapid database transactions.

ioMemory platform and software defined storage solutions accelerate virtualization, databases, cloud computing, big data and performance applications. From e-commerce retailers to the world’s social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers to accelerate the critical applications.

“When potential customers are in search of a new restaurant, or reviews on a local business, they turn to Yelp because of the excellent experience it provides across all digital platforms,” said Ian Whiting, Fusion-io EVP, global field operations. “Fusion-io is proud to support Yelp’s outstanding team in delivering information that users around the world trust to help them decide where they want to spend their time and money.“

With more than 53 million reviews posted about businesses in 24 countries in North America, Europe, South America and AsiaPac, Yelp is the leading local reviews website. In addition to reviews, it provides services such as in-app ordering, localized event calendars, lists and messaging services. Mobile engagement is also high, with more than 53 million unique monthly visitors to mobile web and app in 4Q2013.

ioMemory enables Yelp to provide its community with content from its MySQL databases on nearly any device they choose to use.

Implementing ioMemory into its datacenters gives Yelp the headroom to scale performance as user base and reviews databases continue to expand, providing flexible support for growth. It also enabled the Yelp engineering team to prolong the lifespan of the company’s existing datacenter infrastructure, producing an immediate return on the company’s flash investment.