Samsung Invests in Flash Startup Fusion-io
Solid State Drive products continue to emerge and develop and Samsung has been smack in the middle of many of the offerings. Now they are teaming up with Fusion-io see what kind of SSD tech goodies they can cook up.
The South Korean company, a major supplier of NAND flash silicon, invested “millions” in Fusion-io, said Fusion-io President and Chief Technology Officer David Flynn, though he declined to give a more specific figure. Also as part of the announced deal, the two companies will jointly evaluate technology for new applications of solid-state storage, he said.
Flash storage, widely used in consumer electronics, is playing a growing role in enterprises because it offers a more efficient alternative to HDDs (hard disk drives) for high-speed access to data. It is also emerging as a fast, power-efficient storage alternative for mobile PCs.
Fusion-io specializes in storage devices that plug directly into PCI Express (PCIe) slots in servers, rather than SSDs (solid-state drives) that use traditional HDD form factors or interfaces,
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