Fusion-io board gets ex-HP hotshot
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Shane Robison, the ex-HP chief technology officer, has joined the board of server flash seller Fusion-io.
Robison, age 58, parted company with HP at the beginning of November, shortly after Meg Whitman replaced Leo Apotheker as HP's CEO. He will serve on the Fusion-io board's Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, but his role is broader than that.
Fusion-io's chairman and CEO, David Flynn, said: "Shane … in addition to helping us to refine our cloud and R&D strategies … will help us deepen our relationships with server systems vendors and other technology leaders."
Fusion's PCIe flash relies on controller software in a host server's operating system and comes with additional software, VSL and ioTurbine for example, making it another tier of memory below a server's DRAM. Other PCIe flash vendors sell hardware with built-in flash controller functionality, more of an appliance approach in a way.
Fusion thinks that PCIe flash hardware will become a commodity and that its longer-term value resides in the software interfacing to it and managing it. ®
COMMENTS
So Fusion-io is f*****d then
Shane Robison - the man who stood up at a conference (while at Compaq) and announced that 802.11 was the way to go - get with the programme guys (to a conference full of people who had embraced the technology some years before), the man who finished of HP Labs as a viable R&D organisation, indeed the ,man....
Fusion-io really is finished!
Amen, sister
There are some people who drag death around with them. You know they're around just by the stench. If I were a smart investor in Fusion-IO, I've been given a clear and unignorable warning that the end is here.
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