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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In Defense of Daisey

I didn’t get the sense that Mike was anti-Apple. I think he loves Apple’s products and I told this to Steve Jobs. I think Mike was looking at Apple to become one of the positive forces for having influence on improving things.

Steve Wozniak, in an interview with CNET’s Greg Sandoval about Mike Daisey

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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QOTD: Wozniak on Jobs

Apple is full of some incredible people, and Steve would not leave this company not feeling it has got a good push for right now to keep the ways of thinking that lead to the great products that Steve has employed. Short-term, I would expect Apple might come up with home run after home run after home run again.

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Essay: Jobs’s Departure as CEO of Apple Is the End of an Extraordinary Era

Why the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns.
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Fusion-io Opens at $25 a Share, Worth Nearly $2 Billion (Video)

Fusion-io shares debuted today with all the usual pageantry the New York Stock Exchange can offer a young company going public. Steve Wozniak even showed up to ring the bell and make the first trade.
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Start-Up Fusion-io Breaks EMC's "Record" on Enterprise Flash

When not stuffing cars at an event in New York last week, EMC executives bragged that the company had sold more flash memory to enterprise customers than any other company. They forgot to check with start-up Fusion-io.

Flash Storage Startup Fusion-io Speeds Up Trading At Credit Suisse

Keep a close eye on Fusion-io. Its flash-memory based storage technology is quietly winning lots of business in data centers around the world. I say quietly, because very often the companies using it don’t like to broadcast that fact to the world. One who is willing is Credit Suisse, though it won’t say much.

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The Steam-Punk Dream Computer: Watch the Babbage Difference Engine in Action

Here’s a very special something for the steam-geeks out there: Video of the famed Babbage Difference Engine, widely regarded as the first complex mechanical computer. There are only two in the world, and we captured one in action.

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Back in the Day With Woz: A Sneak Peek Inside the New and Improved Computer History Museum

All Things Digital was on hand for a sneak peek at the newly renovated Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., led by none other than Silicon Valley’s gadget godfather, Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak.

The Year in Wisecracks

If Woz Ran Apple

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