Fusion-io Helps Yelp Deliver Reviews on Short Order

SALT LAKE CITY, March 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that Yelp, the company that connects customers with great local businesses, is accelerating its databases using Fusion ioMemory solutions. With Fusion-io enterprise flash memory, the Yelp Engineering team ensures that users can search and find local restaurants, boutiques and other businesses in an instant. Flash makes it fast for Yelp to deliver value-added services such as ordering from directly within the Yelp mobile application, fueling commerce through rapid database transactions.

"When potential customers are in search of a new restaurant, or reviews on a local business, they turn to Yelp because of the excellent experience it provides across all digital platforms," said Ian Whiting, Fusion-io executive vice president, global field operations. "Fusion-io is proud to support Yelp's outstanding team in delivering information that users around the world trust to help them decide where they want to spend their time and money."

With more than 53 million reviews posted about businesses in 24 countries in North America, Europe, South America and Asia Pacific, Yelp is the leading local reviews website. In addition to reviews, Yelp also provides services such as in-app ordering, localized event calendars, lists and messaging services. Mobile engagement is also high, with more than 53 million unique monthly visitors to mobile web and app in Q4 2013. Fusion ioMemory enables Yelp to provide its community with content from its MySQL databases quickly and effectively, on nearly any device they choose to use.

Implementing Fusion ioMemory into its datacenters gives Yelp the headroom to scale performance as user base and reviews databases continue to expand, providing flexible support for growth. Fusion ioMemory also enabled the Yelp Engineering team to prolong the lifespan of the company's existing datacenter infrastructure, producing an immediate return on the company's flash investment.

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