Fusion-io and Digital China Join Forces to Increase Availability of Low-latency ioMemory Technologies in Chinese Market

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO), pioneer of shared data decentralization, today announced that it has entered into a reseller agreement with Digital China, a leading provider of integrated IT services in China. Digital China will offer the full range of Fusion-io software and hardware technologies, working closely with Fusion-io to help enterprise organizations to meet their evolving data needs.

"Fusion-io offers the systems-level approach to NAND flash solutions that our customer base requires to meet the significant data demands faced today," said Leo Zhao, General Manager of Digital China Storage & Optimization Business Unit. "Answering the need to process more data more quickly and with limited energy resources, Fusion-io offers a series of scalable, extremely low latency hardware and software solutions that solve the data supply problem endemic to legacy, disk-based infrastructures. The growing suite of technologies from Fusion-io is designed to accelerate applications by up to an order of magnitude, resulting in greater productivity with a reduced datacenter footprint and energy requirements."

Fusion's ioMemory technologies will be available immediately to Digital China's customers in capacities up to 10 TB. In addition, Digital China will also act as a reseller for Fusion's ioTurbine caching software designed for virtualization optimization and ioSphere management platform for data decentralization.

"To continue to grow in tandem with the booming economy, Chinese businesses need to access increasing amounts of data faster than ever before," said Mathew Fleming, Sales Director for APAC. "Across a number of industry verticals, we have already seen increased customer awareness of our technologies and market momentum since engaging with Digital China, and we look forward to working closely with Digital China to bring Chinese companies efficient solutions to the data supply problem."

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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

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