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October 9, 2007
By Doug Barney
The DEMO conference is based on a pretty cool conceptbring together a bunch of industry types, entrepreneurs, investors, and a few journalists, and expose them to brand-new companies, products and ideas. If the ideas are good, they’ll be written up, invested in, and hopefully scooped up by the buying public.
I pored through dozens of new ideas and found only one worth bringing to you, so here we go.
Fusion-io, based in Salt Lake City (here’s an aside. As a press guy I meet with brand new companies from Utah on an almost weekly basis. They always buy me lunch and they almost always have great ideas. My advice: keep your eyes on Utah!).
The idea is to build massive flash drives (we’re talking up to a terabyte when several disks are combined) that are small, low power, and very fast (over 400,000 IOs per second). Instead of a huge, power-hogging storage array, you could use a small, efficient little flash drive.
This is a great concept for enterprise storage, but I’m looking for a one terabyte, flash drive iPod! What would you do with a small cheap terabyte device? Give us your best ideas by writing to Doug Barney at barneymailto:[email protected].
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