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Fusion-io has demonstrated a billion input/output operations a second via eight HP servers, 64 ioDrive2 Duo cards and a new piece of software that dramatically boosts the performance of its non-volatile storage technology.

Fusion-io previewed a technology on Thursday that gives server CPUs more direct access to stored data, apparently achieving I/O performance far beyond that found in typical data centers.

Fusion-io has announced that it achieved one billion IOPS during a technology demonstration conducted at DEMO Enterprise: An Evening of Innovation. The purpose of the demonstration was to preview an extension to the ioMemory architecture called Auto Commit Memory, which significantly reduces latency and system overhead in transferring data.

At the DEMO Enterprise Disruption event yesterday, Fusion-io had a big announcement — it's broken the one billion IOPS mark, having reached one million less than two years ago. This massive performance boost comes courtesy of a new way of using NAND flash as a non-volatile memory solution, known as Auto Commit Memory. ACM is a software layer which allows developers to send and receive data stored on Fusion-io's ioDrive cards directly to and from the CPU, rather than relying upon the operating system. Because of this, massive applications and databases can run with much lower latency — crucial for the cloud-based world we're heading towards.

One of the main things that can be credited with Fusion-io’s success in the flash market is the company’s use of both innovative hardware and accompanying software that optimizes the offering. A demonstration at the recent “DEMO Enterprise: An Evening of Innovation” gathering is the latest proof of the huge plus side of this approach.

Fusion-io, announced its new auto commit memory system, which allows a company to execute one billion input-output commands per second (called IOPS by techies) in a rack of eight servers. Previously, an I/O rate that high would require a roomful of servers, the company said. This plays into Fusion-io’s goal of shrinking the data system and making it as efficient as possible. Fusion-io chief scientist and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak described it as, “least costly, most efficient, fastest operating.”

Front-safe, IBM’s Denmark 2010 Cloud Partner of the Year, integrated Big Blue’s High IOPS Adapters into its Tivoli Storage Manager offering. The adapters are based on Fusion-io’s ioMemory.

Fusion-io, a developer of high-speed Flash memory modules and software for accelerating storage performance, is looking to speed server performance with the introduction of a new Flash-based storage acceleration device.

Fusion-io has crammed eight ioDrive flash modules on one PCIe card to give servers 10TB of app-accelerating flash. The bulked-up ioDrive Octal is aimed at data warehousing, scale-out architectures, research and supercomputing applications, and will be available in the first quarter of 2012

Fusion-io today said it has doubled the capacity of its ioDrive Octal PCIe flash module to 10TB in a single unit and 20TB in a 1U (1.75-in high) form factor server. The new modules are aimed at data warehousing applications, helping insurance companies, healthcare providers and government agencies more quickly access information from large amounts of stored data.