Diamond Point chosen as reseller for the ioDrive and ioDrive Duo from Fusion-io

The ioDrive is the industry's most advanced NAND-based enterprise storage solution and is designed specifically to eliminate application I/O bottlenecks and improve server I/O performance. While a typical hard disk drive is capable of roughly100 input/output operations per second (IOPS), the ioDrive can provide 100,000 IOPS. That is 1000 times the throughput of a hard drive. The ioDrive Duo doubles the performance and capacity of the ioDrive.

The ioDrive is a radical departure from traditional storage solutions and will change the way businesses think about their storage architecture,” said John Vaines, managing director, Diamond Point. “We are extremely excited to be working with Fusion-io. Their technology will allow our customers to deploy high-performance storage solutions and benefit from the speed, capacity, reliability, endurance, power usage and simplicity that the ioDrive and ioDrive Duo offer.

It is expected that customers will use these products as high-speed cache, for paging files and high activity files, such as databases. It is also anticipated that these technologies will be used in web servers with high activity levels and in virtual servers, where data centres are consolidating their hardware in order to obtain optimum performance. An added advantage of deploying the ioDrive and ioDrive Duo is the reduction in data centre space, power and cooling requirements.

Specifically designed for the enterprise, the ioDrive and ioDrive Duo offer a best-of-breed solution for drop-in storage,” said Mathew Fleming, director of international sales for Fusion-io. “We are excited to work with the team at Diamond Point to help their customers lower operating costs, reduce power consumption and dramatically improve storage performance.”

The ioDrive is currently available in 80GB, 160GB and 320GB capacities; the ioDrive Duo is available in 160GB, 320GB and 640GB models. Multiple cards can be software RAID configured to further scale performance.

Diamond Point will be introducing further products from Fusion-io’s strategically developing roadmap, as they become available.