EMC Joins the Flash Madness Club by Acquiring Israel’s XtremIO

EMC’s latest acquisition is a would-be rival to Violin Memory and Pure Storage. Also: Watch Fusion-IO shares today.
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Exclusive: Violin Memory Boosts Latest Funding Round to $80 Million

If investor interest is anything to judge by, and it often is, Violin Memory’s IPO later this year is going to be a popular one.
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Fusion-io Brings Flash Madness to Workstations and Movies Like “Hugo”

Long focused primarily on servers, Fusion-io is now going after professional workstations, like the ones used by visual effects artists.
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Violin Memory Raises $50 Million at $800 Million Valuation, May IPO This Year

Flash memory company Violin has raised another investment round from SAP Ventures and Highland Capital with Toshiba and Juniper Networks participating. It’s also hiring bankers for a possible IPO this year.
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Flash Start-Up Violin Poaches VP From VMware

Flash Madness Club member Violin Memory has tapped Narayan Venkat as its VP of product management.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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