Fusion-io names former HP CTO Shane Robison as new CEO

Both CEO David Flynn and chief marketing officer Rick White are leaving Fusion-io to become startup investors.

Fusion-io acquires hybrid storage appliance vendor NexGen Storage for $114M

Fusion-io had just reported earnings earlier today, announcing $87.7 million in quarterly revenue with a net loss of $20 million, and a drop from last quarter of 27 percent and from the previous year's quarter of seven percent.

Fusion-io’s earnings are down but might be ‘less lumpy’ as Spotify & Box sign up

The only things on the rise were net loss, which totaled $20 million for the quarter, up from $4.7 million the quarter before, and headcount, with 36 new employees taking checks from Fusion-io.

Fusion-io scoops up ID7, a software-defined storage pioneer

Fusion-io, a leader in solid-state storage devices for high-volume datacenters, has acquired ID7, a maker of an open-source software-defined storage subsystem.

Fusion-io launches ‘ioScale’ to pave the way for the all-flash data center

Flash storage business Fusion-io has launched its new ioScale product line, which promises to make all-flash-memory data centers a more feasible proposition for companies.

Wozniak says the cloud is going to cause us ‘horrible problems’

Apple co-founder and Fusion.io chief scientist Steve Wozniak said last night during a Q&A that dependence on the cloud is setting us up for "horrible problems."

EMC’s buy of XtremIO for $400M could spur M&A rush in flash storage

EMC Corp is in the final stages of buying flash-memory storage company XtremIO for $400 million, a VentureBeat source has confirmed. The deal is the latest sign that the flash storage market is red hot, and it could spur other …

Fusion-io’s new software development kit gives programmers native access to its flash memory

Fusion-io has been mostly known as an enterprise company helping big names like Apple and Facebook to save money on their data center costs.

But today, the company is announcing its first software development kit (SDK) to provide software developers …

Woz, Spock & the best party you ever missed (video)

Chances are, if reading tech blogs is what you do with your Saturday, you’re gonna love this video.

It features an all-star cast: VentureBeat CTO Chris Peri, “alien chic” bewigged Jolie O’Dell, and a server rack so fast you could …

Live tonight: Steve Wozniak, Leonard Nimoy highlight an evening of disruptive tech (updated)

Update: Scroll down to see a gallery of Nimoy and Wozniak on the DEMO stage!

Come kick off the new year with a celebration of disruptive enterprise technology featuring two huge geek heroes: Steve Wozniak and Leonard Nimoy.

The VentureBeat …

Fusion-io announces groovy new auto commit memory input-output system

How do you sex up an input-output system that will blow away data center bottle necks? Have Verne Troyer announce it at a groovy DEMO party with drink serving go-go girls!

Fusion-io, announced its new auto commit memory system, which …

Fusion-io unveils new memory platform for accelerating data center servers

The demand for accessing data keeps going up and up. That’s why Fusion-io has grown quickly by selling flash-based memory systems for data center servers. Today the company is introducing its second-generation ioMemory products to double its performance.

Flash memory …

Zillow, Pandora only fresh IPOs to outlast market slip

Continued uncertainty about financial stability in Europe and a government deadlock in the United States struck publicly-traded equities on Thursday, sending the tech-heavy NASDAQ index down 3.3 percent and below a technical level of support that might indicate future weakness.…

So many servers, so little time! Fusion-io packs virtualization in with latest product

Fusion-io, a flash storage company, announced its latest product ioCache, a virtualization solution that ties into the company’s focus on data center efficiency.

ioCache integrates flash memory and caching, or saving data in the cache for later use, to free …