Front-safe Takes Performance to the Cloud with Fusion-io and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that backup and archiving solutions provider Front-safe has integrated Fusion ioMemory-based IBM High IOPS Adapters into its Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) cloud solution to power performance improvements while saving time and money.

Front-safe offers a unique online, user-friendly web interface that tightly integrates with Tivoli Storage Manager to create a TSM cloud solution that is easily available to large and small businesses. Front-safe automates backup and recovery, while also providing reporting and dynamic invoicing. As Front-safe's customer base and data volume grew, continuing to deliver outstanding service began to be a challenge. While researching solutions, Front-safe looked at adding more disks and using them in different ways to maximize I/O. As that approach required a SAN, Front-safe realized it would increase its data center footprint, raise power and cooling costs, and still not provide the desired performance.

"Conventional SSDs did not provide us the capacity we needed. We chose the Fusion-io powered IBM High IOPS Adapter because it gave us the highest performance with our existing hardware," said Geirr G. Halvorsen, Front-safe Senior Systems Engineer. "The savings were enormous. We are now able to fully utilize the processors in our TSM servers. This allows us to cut our server footprint, and accompanying floor space, power and cooling costs, by two-thirds.  At the same time, we've increased the speed of database backups and tasks like inventory expiration jobs, which makes our servers more responsive. Our customers have noticed the difference."

In addition to the performance improvements and cost savings, Front-safe noted that installing the High IOPS Adapters was far easier than upgrading to a SAN. With the High IOPS Adapters from IBM, Halvorsen's team also found that system upgrades could be conducted in hours, rather than days.

"We believe Front-safe's results demonstrate that the low latency, ioMemory-based High IOPS Adapters are ideal for powering high performance jobs and queries in enterprise systems like Tivoli," said Neil Carson, Fusion-io chief technology officer. "Inspiring companies like Front-safe are improving customers' cloud-based service experiences with innovative technologies built for a cloud-powered economy."

For more details on Front-safe's implementation of IBM High IOPS Adapters, please review the case study: http://www.fusionio.com/case-studies/front-safe-creates-an-efficient-and-high-performance-cloud-solution-for-tivoli-storage-manager/. To learn more about Fusion-io, go to http://www.fusionio.com. Follow Fusion-io on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/fusionio and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/fusionio.

About Fusion-io

Fusion-io has pioneered a next generation storage memory platform for shared data decentralization that significantly improves the processing capabilities within a datacenter by relocating process-critical, or "active", data from centralized storage to the server where it is being processed, a methodology referred to as data decentralization. Fusion's integrated hardware and software solutions leverage non-volatile memory to significantly increase datacenter efficiency and offers enterprise grade performance, reliability, availability and manageability. Fusion's data decentralization platform can transform legacy architectures into next generation datacenters and allows enterprises to consolidate or significantly reduce complex and expensive high performance storage, high performance networking and memory-rich servers. Fusion's platform enables enterprises to increase the utilization, performance and efficiency of their datacenter resources and extract greater value from their information assets.

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 of concerning the integration and deployment of ioMemory-based IBM High IOPS Adapters into Front-safe's Tivoli Storage Manager, and our beliefs concerning low latency, ioMemory-based High IOPs Adapters and the expected benefits for improving cloud-based service experiences.  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 Front-safe and other users of our products 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 website at www.fusionio.com.  You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events.  Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee that the future results, levels of activity, performance or events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or will occur.  Fusion-io assumes no obligation and does not intend to update any forward-looking statement these forward-looking statements.

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