Retired HP CTO Shane V. Robison Joins Fusion-io's Board of Directors

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) announced today that its Board of Directors has elected Shane V. Robison, age 58, as a Director of the company, effective immediately.  Robison served as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) from May 2002 until he retired on November 1, 2011.  Robison will serve on the Board's Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. 

"Shane brings significant expertise and experience to our already very strong board, and in addition to helping us to refine our cloud and R&D strategies, Shane will help us deepen our relationships with server systems vendors and other technology leaders," said David Flynn, Chairman and CEO of Fusion-io. "I believe his experience in both corporate and R&D strategy will provide powerful guidance as we continue to grow our business globally with technologies that help our customers' through innovative and efficient data solutions."

"Fusion-io recognized the potential of a new memory tier designed to maximize the capabilities of modern datacenters, and it is now changing an industry with its ioMemory and VSL platform," said Robison. "I am honored to join Fusion-io's experienced board to help this visionary company continue to excel in its dedication to accelerating the critical information that we rely on to stay connected in both our business and personal lives."

Robison had been a technology executive in Silicon Valley for three decades. At HP, Robison was responsible for shaping HP's corporate strategy and technology agenda along with overseeing the company's initiatives around incubating innovation. He was instrumental in steering the company's multi-billion dollar research and development investment, and as head of strategy and corporate development, he was in charge of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital relationships, global strategic alliances, as well as HP's Cloud Services and Business Solutions groups. Prior to HP, he served as SVP and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Compaq and as president of Internet Technology and Development at AT&T Labs, where he led a team responsible for the architecture, planning and development of AT&T's Internet technologies and services. Robison has also served in leadership positions at Cadence Design, Apple Computer and Schlumberger Research.  In 2004, Robison was named one of the world's 25 most influential chief technology officers by InfoWorld.  He is a frequent speaker on technology trends and innovation.

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About Fusion-io
Fusion-io has pioneered a next generation storage memory platform for shared data decentralization that significantly improves the processing capabilities within a datacenter by relocating process-critical, or "active", data from centralized storage to the server where it is being processed, a methodology referred to as data decentralization. Fusion's integrated hardware and software solutions leverage non-volatile memory to significantly increase datacenter efficiency and offers enterprise grade performance, reliability, availability and manageability. Fusion's data decentralization platform can transform legacy architectures into next generation datacenters and allows enterprises to consolidate or significantly reduce complex and expensive high performance storage, high performance networking and memory-rich servers. Fusion's platform enables enterprises to increase the utilization, performance and efficiency of their datacenter resources and extract greater value from their information assets.

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 Mr. Robison 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.

SOURCE Fusion-io

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