Dr. Edward H. Frank Joins Fusion-io Board of Directors

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Edward H. Frank, age 56, to the Board of Directors, effective October 21, 2013. Dr. Frank recently retired as vice president of Macintosh Hardware Systems Engineering at Apple, Inc.  He holds over 50 United States patents and is a Life Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University.

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"Ed's extensive technology and industry expertise make him a strong addition to our board of directors as we execute on our strategies to scale our success," said Shane Robison, chairman and chief executive officer of Fusion-io. "His experience in creating revolutionary technology that defines the industry standard across global markets will provide valuable guidance as we extend our leadership in helping our customers transform information into opportunity."

"Fusion-io is a visionary company in the use of flash memory technology to solve today's IT challenges," said Frank. "I look forward to helping the team extend its leadership through an industry transition that is just beginning to reshape the datacenter."

Frank was formerly vice president of research and development at Broadcom, where he was responsible for Broadcom's overall engineering execution and played a key role in corporate business and IP strategy. He also held positions at Sun Microsystems and was a founder of Epigram, Inc. which was acquired by Broadcom, and co-founder of NeTpower, Inc.  He holds B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Fusion-io delivers the world's data faster. Our Fusion ioMemory platform and software defined storage solutions accelerate virtualization, databases, cloud computing, big data and performance applications. From e-commerce retailers to the world's social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, our customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical applications of the information economy.

NOTE ON FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements in this release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including statements relating to the expected benefits associated with the appointment of Dr. Frank to the Fusion-io Board of Directors. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions regarding future events and business performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained, anticipated, or implied in any forward-looking statement, including the risks set forth in the registration statements and reports that Fusion-io files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available on the Investor Relations section of our website at www.fusionio.com. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee that the future results, levels of activity, performance or events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or will occur. Fusion-io undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason after the date of this press release.

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