Flash storage provider Fusion-io had climbed its way up in its fast-evolving industry to become one of the most prominent vendors, and has managed to expand its business across a number of different sectors. It has even made an entry into the mobile app market with FusionFace, the app that visualizes the “face warping effect of Fusion-io performance on your applications.”

Today however, the firm has achieved a more significant milestone in this space with the release of a new case study covering Host Europe GmbH’s use of Fusion tech to give its datacenters a boost. Host Europe is a provider of cloud-based gaming services that currently serves an excess of one million customers throughout Europe, based on company data. They handle a lot of data and a lot of usage spikes, which could be not be addressed suitably by the previous setup and was resolved after installing some Fusion-io flash.

“Fusion ioMemory maintains consistent performance regardless of database workload fluctuations, even with massively parallel virtual machines and database virtualization. This allows us to guarantee high service levels to all applications, under any load, so we don’t have to scale out excess infrastructure in anticipation of load spikes that might cause servers to crash or interrupt application service,” said Thomas Ebbers, Head of Product Management for Host Europe.

According to the info provided by Fusion-io, Host Europe has seen a 500 percent increase in the amount of workloads assigned per server, in addition to a 30 percent reduction in physical infrastructure and more powerful database virtualization.

Fusion-io is in a relatively dominant position right now, but it’s facing competition from newer rivals. EMC has very high hopes for Project Lightning (VFCache), as well as the resources to realize its particular agenda.