Talk:Fusion-io

Updated the list of products
After checking some of the references and their website they appeared to offer more than just ioDrive. I split them in to collapsible lists of hardware and software offerings as best as I understood them. Could someone double-check to make sure I didn't miss/miscategorize anything? MechanoidWarhead (talk) 20:40, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Information about the ION product is missing. See e.g. http://www.fusionio.com/products/ion-data-accelerator/, http://www.fusionio.com/blog/six-world-records-and-nine-out-of-10-vmmark-scores-based-on-fusion-io/ and http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Enabling_Real-time_Big_Data_Processing_with_Xflash_-_Very_Low_Latency_Server_SANs for more information. Aleph11 (talk) 20:03, 16 December 2013 (UTC).

Fusion-io in Wall Street Journal
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I looked up this company after reading this article in the Wall Street Journal's website. I was wondering why it isn't mentioned in the article here and now also why the Wikipedia entry has a deletion message. It seems to me like it's important enough to be in Wikipedia...or is there something about levels of importance that I'm missing? Would it be okay for me put this imformation in or do I have to register to Wikipedia? It would be my first time editing a wiki article so I'm not sure what the right etiquette is.174.23.139.247 (talk) 06:42, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Go Ahead
I made some necessary changes. I think you should too.

Rewrite required
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This article would likely have been deleted as it is written today, but the company has a significant history and contribution to the solid-state market and should reflect that history. If I get a chance I will come back to it to help in bringing it up to current standards for notable companies, but anyone who can spare some time is certainly welcome to work on it. Music Sorter (talk) 05:15, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I work for Fusion-io, but I deleted three new sections because the way they were written would get this entry deleted. It's against Wikipedia guidelines to use press releases or company web sites as references. It's also not okay to copy word for word from Fusion-io press materials. If you want to help make this a better article, make it encyclopedic, and include reliable references that aren't self-promoting. Thanks Jodimardesich (talk) 18:09, 13 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Jodimardesich, I commend you for resisting creating content for your own company to prevent any COI, and for removing content that did not meet the standards of Wikipedia. I am speaking for myself when I say if you wanted to add something on the main page, I see no problem posting a note on the talk page and then someone else can consider the neutral nature of the content and post it for you. Many time the problem with article updates is finding the time to do the research. If you posted your idea for the addition (actual text if you wanted) and showed the references, there are probably a number of people who would post it.


 * If you notice any inaccuracies with the changes I have made tonight on the page, just post a comment here and I or someone else can consider the change on your behalf.&sect; Music Sorter &sect;  (talk) 07:51, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Music SorterJodimardesich (talk) 22:42, 27 July 2010 (UTC)


 * The history on this page is out of date. It needs to be updated with the acquisition by SanDisk and the latter acquisition by Western Digital. I am also surprised that the drama surrounding the firing of Don Basile is not covered. I've read that he was forced out for doing some backroom deals with Violin Memory. There is apparently an email that was presented in the court case where he was promised a position and money for tanking Fusion-io but that David Flynn found out about the deception and held an emergency board meeting where Don Basile was immediately terminated. I'll see if I can dig up those court statements and provide a link here. Wiki Gary (talk) 17:06, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Company headquarters
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Google Maps shows zip code 84121 is Salt Lake City. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jodimardesich (talk • contribs) 15:39, 22 July 2010 (UTC)


 * This is true, and more importantly the Fusionio website (via Google) lists their address as Salt Lake City. But the same search turned up Overstock's wiki page and their wiki article lists them as being in Cottonwood heights and they're apparently at the same address as Fusionio. Dozens of other businesses with the 84121 zip were also listed as being both in Salt Lake City or Cottonwood Heights.67.132.126.22 (talk) 18:26, 22 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I looked at the corporate web site and entered Salt Lake City into the Company Infobox. &sect; Music Sorter &sect;  (talk) 07:51, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

The address 6350 South 3000 East lies clearly within the city limits of Cottonwood Heights, as shown in the latest official U.S. Census Boundary Survey. On the other hand, the southern boundary of Salt Lake City lies some seven (7) miles to the north of this location. In fact, one must pass through another city - Holladay - to travel from Cottonwood Heights to Salt Lake City. The confusion results from the fact that ZIP code boundaries and designations assigned by the U.S. Postal Service do not necessarily match ACTUAL city names and boundaries. In this case, the U.S.P.S. has assigned “Salt Lake City” as the “default” place name for addresses in the ZIP code 84121 - even though not a single address in 84121 is actually in Salt Lake City. Addresses in 84121 are either in the City of Murray, the City of Holladay, the City of Cottonwood Heights, or in unincorporated Salt Lake County. The U.S.P.S. accepts any of these place names with 84121 addresses, but since it also accepts “Salt Lake City”, it is easy to assume that an address reading “Salt Lake City, UT 84121” is actually in Salt Lake City. There is no case where this is true; in all such cases, “Salt Lake City” is merely a postal designation, and not a true indicator of the city in which the address is actually located. Schiptuin (talk) 07:16, 15 August 2010 (UTC)


 * According to Fusion-io's collateral, it's in Salt Lake City. Look at any article about the company, such as this one from Businessweek: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=42920866
 * Please don't change it back to Cottonwood Heights. It's in Salt Lake City. Jodimardesich (talk) 20:46, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

As stated above, the company uses the postal designation of “Salt Lake City” in its mailing address. As a consequence, articles about the company simply regurgitate this, making the false assumption that the city in which the company is located is the same as the place name that it chooses to use in its mailing address. As explained in great detail above, the company is located in the City of Cottonwood Heights. Schiptuin (talk) 23:26, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

OEM partnerships - Updates still needed
Below is the current (21:17, 24 July 2010 (UTC)) content on the article page. I found a few statements which were not supported by the sources referenced. I have made notations in the editors comments on the main page, but thought it would be better to include them back here where we can discuss it further. If anyone can find sources for these comments feel free to add them or any other information relative to OEM partnerships.

OEM partnerships
Fusion-io has partnerships with Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Dell, which is due in part to its server-centric architecture called ioMemory.




 * The comment that the ioMemory was the reason the companies chose Fusion-io will need to be sourced.

IBM’s project Quicksilver,



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 * Project Quicksilver is not covered in any source cited for this paragraph. I will look for one when I get a chance.

based on Fusion-io technology, showed that solid-state technology could deliver the fastest performance of its time: 1 million IOPS.



IBM offers the ioDrive as the only PCIe-based solid-state storage solution for use in IBM servers.



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Does this work: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/IBM-Hooks-Up-with-Wozniak-Fusionio-in-OEM-Pact-for-SSDs-804816/Jodimardesich (talk) 22:43, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The IBM web site shows one PCIe drive available, but does not say it is Fusion-io. A source will be needed to identify the drive as Fusion-io.


 * The sentence at the end of this paragraph originally repeated the majority of this last sentence "and IBM worked with Fusion-io in December 2009 to create the High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapter." The original citation was the IBM web site, but it said nothing of Dec 2009 or Fusion-io. Another source is required here. Then it could be integrated into the current IBM statement or expanded if additional information can be found and sourced.

HP worked with Fusion-io to create the IO Accelerator in March 2009.



Merge
These articles have been sitting around for a year or two. I see ioDrive which has no citations except for a link to the promotional web page for the product, from two years ago. It clearly would not meet notability requirements independently from the company itself. Normally we do not spin off product lines into their own article until the company article becomes too large. NexGen Storage is just a private company that existed for only three years before being purchased. That too would probably never meet a notability challenge. The IO Accelerator claims to just be a re-layout of the ioDrive onto a smaller card to fit in an HP blade server? That article also has no independent sources at all. I propose to merge them here, as time permits, probably in that order. W Nowicki (talk) 18:54, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Just saw this. Vote against the merge of IO-Accelerator and Fusion-io.  IO-Accelerator is HP's product, and so doesn't belong as part of the Fusion-io article.  The ioDrive redirect was fine - I just added info to the Fusion-io lede to clarify why the redirect was there.Timtempleton (talk) 22:56, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Sounds like a commercial
The first paragraph sounds like a commercial (esp. the "legacy architectures" and "specialized hardware" part). I'd put in something more descriptive, and move that part into another section where it can be properly explained (and backed up with references). RainCT (talk) 22:28, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

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Should We Delete This Page?
Team, According to computer news sites like this one: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/23/primary_data_looks_to_be_defunct/ the company Fusion-io appears to be out of business. On top of that, the website URL is parked in a holding queue owned by GoDaddy. Now it just occurred to me that we should sit on this idea for 3-months then update the article to say that the company has gone out of business. Comments? Neilrieck (talk) 18:00, 5 January 2019 (UTC)


 * The article says fusion-io was acquired by Sandisk not that it is out of business. (It talks about another company founded by people involved in fusion-io going out of business.) Our articles does, and did say it was acquired by Sandisk [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fusion-io&oldid=861776821] so it already covers the basics. If the fusion-io subsidiary has been shut down or folded into one of the parents, we should mention that but we'd more than the disappearance of the website. Nil Einne (talk) Nil Einne (talk) 14:44, 23 July 2023 (UTC)