Fusion-io, a pioneer of a next-generation storage memory platforms, is going to participate in the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) to be held on June 13-16, 2011 at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific), in San Diego. The event engages cutting-edge information technology focusing on operational shortfalls, all of which are identified by combatant commanders and government agencies. Fusion-io’s using the event to show off a bit, as it will demonstrate the usage of its storage memory technology to reduce energy consumption and enhance speed-to-intelligence for warfighters, first-responders, analysts and datacenter operators by providing native access to critical data in the server where it can be processed much more quickly.

“CWID scenarios provide a unique way to evaluate technologies that can advance key capabilities of the Navy,” said Jay Iannacito, Project Manager and Navy Site Lead for CWID. “Some of the technologies we’re testing this year support SSC Pacific executive director’s Energy Reduction Strategy and offer a potential to significantly reduce power consumption in both afloat and shore applications.”

The utilization of the technology offered by Fusion-io will be used to deploy for warfighters and first responders, and reduce the weight, power and cooling needs of deployable systems by offering storage devices that have the performance of a large Storage Area Network (SAN). It will further reduce the complexity by enabling performance-intensive applications or databases, and provide several benefits like,

• Reducing failure points in data centers and replacing volatile and failure-prone memory technologies with a non-volatile NAND flash memory tier.
• Reduction in infrastructure needs by a factor of 3:1 – 10:1.
• Improving information capabilities and mission success rates by increasing database performance for 3-10x more data.

Further, the company also revealed its plans to hire around 40 to 50 officials at top level, by the end of this year. The company already has some big clients like Facebook and Credit Suisse in its kitty, and is now eyeing on a $150 million initial public offering, while recently opening an office in Superior, CO. Interestingly, Fusion-io is hiring for the same office.

Fusion-io is also teaming up with StoneFly, an integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems manufacturer. Through the agreement StoneFly’s SCVM and ESS Windows virtual SAN software appliances will be bundled with Fusion-io’s ioMemory product line, and the new platform will be offered to joint customers. This new high speed solution brings together Fusion’s ioMemory technology with JMR’s BlueStor 16 Bay PCIe Extender, connected to the BlueStor GPU Server.

The company also has plans to bring out and IPO about which it announced in March. But industry analysts think that the company is still too far from the materialization of its goal, leaving it a debatable factor in flash storage arguments.  Fusion-io itself has been at the center of one such debate, which got rather heated last week.  See our latest contributions to this industry discussion.