Fusion-io Showcases Ultimate Studio Solution for Visual Effects and Computer Graphics Production at SIGGRAPH 2013

ANAHEIM, Calif., July 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SIGGRAPH 2013 booth #651 – Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced a complete studio solution for visual effects acceleration being showcased at SIGGRAPH 2013. Featuring Fusion-io products for servers and workstations, the powerful and cost-effective solution delivers 12 gigabytes per second (GB/s) application throughput across a network with drop-in application acceleration that unleashes artist productivity and creativity for even the most data-intensive 4K resolution and high frame rate projects.

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"Fusion-io products were a fundamental, core component of our pipeline for 'Star Trek Into Darkness,'" said Adam Watkins, Pixomondo Digital Effects Supervisor. "If you have a facility equipped with Fusion-io with the ioFX for workstations or ioDrive in the server, you get an overall productivity gain that increases efficiency of the equipment you already have. Those cost savings and increased bandwidth help you take on more work to be more competitive in the visual effects market."

Fusion-io solutions eliminate the I/O and bandwidth bottlenecks common in visual effects studios. At SIGGRAPH 2013, the integrated Fusion-io studio solution delivers industry-leading application acceleration from the server to the workstation for a high performance, balanced pipeline that is easy to install and meets the needs of the most demanding productions:

• Artist Workstations: Adding the Fusion ioFX to artist workstations accelerates playback, match-moving, compositing and review, enabling artists to work interactively on even uncompressed 4K and 4K stereoscopic content. At SIGGRAPH 2013, Fusion-io is showcasing workstation performance acceleration on a HP Z820 workstation for digital content creation applications from Adobe, Autodesk, The Foundry, Thinkbox Software, and Tweak Software.

• Content Servers: As resolutions increase for high frame rate and stereoscopic films, VFX studios must deliver ever-increasing amounts of data to artist workstations. The SIGGRAPH solution caches 24TB of data on Fusion ioMemory with Fusion ioTurbine software and a high performance ioControl Hybrid Storage system (previously called NexGen) to deliver large volumes of data to workstations at very low latencies and extremely high bandwidth.

"Every studio and project has different needs that require unique solutions, making it important to accelerate the entire visual effects pipeline with a comprehensive portfolio from the workstation to the server for faster performance across modeling, composting, reviews, and rendering," said Vincent Brisebois, Fusion-io Director of Visual Computing. "Time is money in the visual effects industry, and budgets are tighter than ever. Hosting application content on Fusion ioMemory throughout the production pipeline is a simple and cost-effective way to accelerate creative potential and opportunity for VFX studios and artists."

The Fusion-io studio acceleration solutions are now available from leading systems vendors and resellers worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.fusionio.com/contact/sales/. To learn more about Fusion-io, visit SIGGRAPH booth #651 or go to www.fusionio.com. Follow Fusion ioFX on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FusionioFX and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FusionioFX.

About Fusion-io

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

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements concerning the potential performance and other benefits to users of Fusion-io's studio acceleration solutions for visual effects, featuring Fusion ioControl, ioFX and ioTurbine.  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, but not limited to, the risk that users of Fusion-io's products and solutions may not realize the expected benefits, and such other 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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