SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- [Percona Live booth #200] – Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today
announced NVM Compression, a flash-aware interface that can double
the useable capacity of ioMemory flash while eliminating the
performance impact associated with disk-era compression algorithms
commonly used with flash SSDs. When integrated with the Atomic
Writes interface, NVM Compression also delivers 4x more flash
endurance by streamlining commands to optimize databases for
persistent flash memory architectures.
![Fusion-io delivers the world's data faster. Our Fusion 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, our customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical applications of the information economy. Fusion-io delivers the world's data faster. Our Fusion 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, our customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical applications of the information economy.](http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20130612/SF30606LOGO)
"From each email we send to every song we listen to online,
databases manage our ever-expanding information that must be
processed and stored," said Monty Widenius, creator of MariaDB.
"The NVM Compression interface introduced by Fusion-io emphasizes
how flash architected as a memory for application acceleration goes
far beyond the capabilities of SSDs. The results MariaDB saw in
testing NVM Compression were astounding, and it's very exciting to
deliver new innovation in flash-aware database performance with
Fusion-io."
"Solutions like the flash-aware NVM Compression and Atomic
Writes interfaces integrate powerful software-defined features that
enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of modern IT
architectures, making flash an even more essential addition to the
data center," said Eric Burgener,
Research Director for IDC's Storage Practice. "While much of the
rest of the industry is looking at flash as a replacement for disk,
these flash aware interfaces emphasize how Fusion-io is
architecting flash as a replacement for memory."
With traditional disk storage, data compression significantly
hinders database performance. Testing conducted by MariaDB database
developer SkySQL showed that using the NVM Compression interface
with the Fusion-io nonvolatile memory file system (NVMFS) doubled
the useable capacity of the ioMemory server flash available to the
database without affecting performance. As NVM Compression reduces
undesirable write amplification, testing of longer workloads
demonstrated that the MariaDB database featuring NVM Compression
became even faster than the traditional uncompressed database.
"Database compression provides the valuable ability to store
more information in a limited storage capacity and reduces TCO of
database management systems," said Peter
Zaitsev, Percona CEO and Co-founder. "We recognize
Fusion-io's continued leadership in providing hardware level
storage optimization for databases and leverage that expertise when
possible. We integrated both the flash-aware NVM Compression
interface and Atomic Writes into Percona Server to ensure maximum
capacity as well as maximum performance when used with Fusion-io
flash memory products. We see this as enabling Percona Server
users to enjoy lower total ownership costs and enhanced
performance."
Unlike disk-era compression techniques, flash-optimized NVM
Compression shares the vast majority of the application code with
the traditional uncompressed database logic. By leveraging the
underlying architecture of flash as a memory tier, NVM Compression
significantly reduces the complexity of storage engines, which
allows for improved scalability and higher efficiency.
In addition, the well-defined interface of NVM Compression
allows developers to quickly introduce flash-aware compression to
their applications using versatile workload-optimized compression
algorithms. Once integrated into an application, NVM Compression
enables developers to help enterprises scale their IT
infrastructure to meet increasing data demands by effectively
balancing storage efficiency with customer workload performance
requirements.
"Flash-aware interfaces like NVM Compression and Atomic Writes
underline the significant divide between flash as a memory and
flash SSDs," said Fusion-io Chief Technology Officer Pankaj Mehra. "The value of enterprise flash
memory is maximized as a memory tier that enables unique
optimizations for cloud computing, big data, in-memory databases
and high volume transactions. Fusion-io is proud to collaborate
with MariaDB and Percona to make these interfaces available to the
businesses that use these databases every day."
The NVM Compression and Atomic Writes interfaces are now in
early access testing in MariaDB 10 and Percona 5.6. Fusion ioMemory
platforms for MySQL database acceleration are available from
leading server vendors including HP, Cisco, Dell, IBM, and
Supermicro. The NVM Compression interface and other flash-aware
interfaces led by Fusion-io are being showcased at the Percona Live
conference April 1-4, 2014. For more
information on flash-aware interfaces, visit Fusion-io in booth 200
at Percona Live 2014.
ABOUT FUSION-IO
Fusion-io delivers the world's data faster. Our Fusion 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, our
customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their
data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical
applications of the information economy.
NOTE ON FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements in this release may constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, statements
concerning our flash-aware NVM Compression Interface and
flash-aware Atomic Writes, as well as the expected capabilities and
benefits of these and similar flash-aware interfaces in connection
with Percona and SkySQL as well as other databases. These
statements are based on current expectations and assumptions
regarding future events and business performance and involve
certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those contained, anticipated, or implied in
any forward-looking statement, including, but not limited to, the
risk that the users of our ioMemory products and flash-aware
interfaces may not realize the expected benefits, and such other
risks set forth in the registration statements and reports that
Fusion-io files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
which are available on the Investor Relations section of our
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Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the
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circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be
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