Fusion-io ION Data Accelerator Shared Flash Solution Adopted by Industry Leading Enterprises Worldwide

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- [Oracle OpenWorld trade show booth 1127] -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that the all-flash Fusion ION Data Accelerator shared storage software has been adopted by market leading enterprises in more than ten business verticals around the globe. With its reliable, rapid, and simple deployment architecture, the ION Data Accelerator software has been selected by diverse leaders in finance, manufacturing, healthcare, travel, media and entertainment, retail, energy, shipping, grocery, fraud prevention and advertising as a high-performance, affordable solution for accelerating enterprise databases like Oracle and Oracle RAC.

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"From enabling enterprises to conduct more database transactions and fulfill more customer orders, to making decisions more quickly through rapid business intelligence analysis, processing information faster gives companies a competitive advantage in our real-time economy," said Jeff Treuhaft, Fusion-io Executive Vice President of Products. "ION Data Accelerator software delivers powerful shared storage performance for enterprise databases like Oracle and Oracle RAC to accelerate business-critical information using industry standard server platforms and Fusion ioMemory. By sharing Fusion ioMemory flash from ION-powered servers, enterprises worldwide are maximizing real-world performance delivered through a simple, high availability architecture that features proven technologies and solutions trusted by leaders."

Many companies adopting the Fusion ION Data Accelerator shared storage solution are adding performance to enhance the capabilities of a centralized SAN with shared flash memory for application acceleration and simplified administration. A leading European service provider for the global tourism industry added ION Data Accelerator to its HP servers to accelerate its Oracle database, helping the company ensure real-time accuracy in availability and pricing across billions of travel options.

One of the largest healthcare providers in northern Europe is using ION Data Accelerator with Dell servers to store its electronic patient records. In its evaluation, the hospital noted that it required speeds that respond to queries as fast as an Internet search engine. The ease of installation with ION Data Accelerator made it simple for the hospital to accelerate its system and improve efficiency, helping to save the valuable time of medical staff while providing faster patient care. 

An American online advertising analytics company is migrating its Oracle database to ION Data Accelerator to more rapidly evaluate ad placement, pricing and effectiveness. This responsiveness enables the analytics company to provide customers with critical business intelligence, enabling clients to quickly learn from campaigns that are working well and adjust those that need more fine-tuning.

Headquartered in Asia, one of the world's largest ship building companies is leveraging Fusion ION Data Accelerator software for its core Oracle Project Lifecycle Management (PLM) database. With ION Data Accelerator, the company is now able to create complex 3D models significantly faster, in just 15 seconds.

One of Japan's largest grocery chains selected ION Data Accelerator software after a nine-month evaluation of all-flash array products. The company is using ION Data Accelerator with HP servers to reconcile all point of sale transactions, enabling it to monitor sales and prepare reports rapidly, helping to ensure it capitalizes on opportunity by responding to real-time demand.

ION Data Accelerator has also been selected by one of the world's largest air conditioning equipment manufacturers to meet its business requirement to adopt the highest performance solution available. The Asia-based company found that it would have needed more than 200 disk drives to meet its strict performance specifications. With ION Data Accelerator, the manufacturer is now able to provide breakthrough performance for its Oracle RAC database in just two 2U servers from IBM.

Fusion ION Data Accelerator is now available from Fusion-io and leading server systems vendors. For more information, visit Fusion-io booth 1127, Moscone Center South Hall at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco September 22 – 26, 2013, stop by the Fusion-io Performance Cafe at 28 3^rd Street San Francisco during the show, or visit http://www.fusionio.com/products/ion-data-accelerator/. For more about Fusion-io solutions for Oracle, visit http://www.fusionio.com/solutions/oracle/.

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About Fusion-io
Fusion-io delivers the world's data faster. Our Fusion ioMemory platform and software defined storage solutions accelerate virtualization, databases, cloud computing, big data and performance applications. From e-commerce retailers to the world's social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, our customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical applications of the information economy.

Note on Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements concerning the potential performance benefits of the Fusion ioMemory products and technology, particularly Fusion-io's ION Data Accelerator all-flash shared storage solution. 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 users of Fusion-io's 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 undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason after the date of this press release.

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