Fusion-io Shares Whacked, but the Flash Madness Club Has a New Member

Fusion-io investors freak out over tighter margins. But never mind that. Fusion has a new customer: Salesforce.com
flash_madness

Woz Plus Spock Equals a Geek Swarm

Apple co-founder and geek hero Steve Wozniak will share a stage with geek hero Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Spock. They probably won’t talk about how flash memory speeds up servers.
woz_nimoy

Apple Joins the Flash Madness Club With Anobit Deal

Flash memory has some troubles that an Israeli company call Anobit appears to know how to solve. Apple is the world’s biggest consumer of flash memory, so naturally it appears to have consumed Anobit.
flashcomixcropped-feature

Apple Reportedly Closes Anobit Deal for up to $500 Million

If true, the deal would follow an Apple pattern: Spend relatively smallish amounts to pick up technology vendors it is already using.
acquisitions_phag_bigger-feature

Shares of “Flash Madness Club” Founder Fusion-io Speed Up

Shares in Fusion-io surged by more than 9 percent today. Shares have doubled since its debut five months ago, but it hasn’t been the smoothest ride.
flashcomixcropped-feature

Meet Qwilt, Creator of Smart Video-Caching Gear, and New Member of the Flash Madness Club

Coming out of stealth today with $24 million from Redpoint Ventures, Accel and other investors, Qwilt stores copies of the videos that are popular in your neighborhood to help make the network run faster. And? It uses flash memory to do it! Flash Madness continues.
flashcomixcropped-feature

Apple’s iPhone 4S Cracked Open, Money Spills Out

Research house IHS iSuppli has opened up Apple’s iPhone 4S to see who’s in and out among its suppliers and to estimate how much it cost to make.
iphone_4s_teardown

News Byte

Flash Storage Player Fusion-io Kicks It Up a Notch With New Drive

Fusion-io, the company that went public during the summer of flash madness said today it has built a new version of its ioDrive hardware that runs substantially faster than the original. Designed to sit between conventional hard drives and the processor in a computer in order to speed up high-performance computing environments, the company says the ioDrive2 is twice as fast as the original.

Eye-Fi Partners With SanDisk to Expand European Distribution

The Mountain View, Calif., start-up, whose chips bring wireless capabilities to standard digital cameras, will tap the flash memory giant to help sell its cards in Europe.
eye-fi_cards

Fusion-io Brings Speedy Flash to Virtual Machines

Fusion-io brings the summer of “flash madness” to virtualized computing environments, and thus to the cloud.
flashcomixcropped