 Welcome back Jeff Rick here at San Francisco dog patch studios. We're here at the fusion IO atomic series launch of it I'm here with my friend and senior executive Gary Ornstein who's been really driving the Ford progress with fusion for a while Gary First off congratulations on a great event. Thank you very much Jeff. We're happy to be here and happy to have you here Yeah, it's great. We had some great entertainment from the American authors, right? They were fantastic. They killed it. It's awesome Yeah up close and personal so talk about the announcements talk about what you guys are doing with this brand New series kind of I think you said the best of the best of fusion generation of fusion IO products So tonight we launched the atomic series, which is the best generation of fusion IO products And what sets the atomic series apart from other flash memory products in the industry is that from the ground up This product set this product line of the atomic series has been architected for application acceleration So whether customers are focused on sequel server or Oracle or SAP HANA or my SQL or VMware environments We've taken the breadth and depth of expertise inside our company and infuse that into the product so we can guarantee Customers will get a fantastic experience in making their applications go faster with less infrastructure More efficiently so that's really been a culmination of years and years of work on behalf of fusion IO Our customers and our partners and we're really happy to bring it all together and share it with the world tonight That's great So we talked a little bit with David Follier before he came on and he talked about you know You guys are way ahead of the curve, which is goodness most of the time But sometimes you know our customers ready for flash or flash ready applications. What's going on in the marketplace? I sure you got some pilots out there. What can you share with us for people? What can they do with an app built for flash from the ground up that they couldn't do just throwing flash into a SSD drive well, I want to separate it in that there are Ways for customers to take advantage of the atomic series right out of the box They don't need to change anything all they need to do is take the leap forward to move to flash so they can have faster Applications better end user experiences lower infrastructure cost simpler deployments now We also have opportunities for people to take advantage of the native capabilities of flash One example of that is the work that we've done with Microsoft and their sequel server and being able to support What's called the buffer pool extension which in simple terms just gives you an extra performance boost on top of what? Previous generations of sequel server could do another great example is my SQL We're adding new flash aware capabilities so customers can get more performance use compression without Sacrificing performance to get more efficiency and then also by reducing the workload the number of rights that go to flash We extend the life of the flash getting as much as four times the endurance of the flash memory So it's important to keep in mind that flash memory as it goes through these new generations the nan chips They're getting not necessarily they're getting larger capacity, but they aren't always increasing in performance But we've been able with our technology To wrap increased performance around these new generation of nan technologies and ultimately that's going to benefit our customers and our partners So it's kind of the best of both worlds you use kind of the commodity NAND Under the cover so you get all the benefits of production scale and and industry standardization But then you add your secret sauce to really take it up a notch exactly It's a little bit of a behind-the-scenes Element of our technology from the get-go we made a commitment to build our products on the most universally available and Accessible NAND and we do that for multiple suppliers. Now. What does that mean for a customer? It means that we can guarantee the reliability of the supply over the long haul It means that we can guarantee the consistency of our pricing It means that we can guarantee the consistency of our products Customers who make the investment in flash memory are not doing one-off Deployments here there they want to make an investment that will last three four or five years and beyond and by Adopting the newest NAND technologies and being able to do that across different providers But yet provide customers a singular consistent product experience it really becomes a strategic asset for our partners and customers who are in this for the long haul So the other the other thing I wanted to bring up as fusion is well known for playing in the hyperscale market You guys have been there for a long time pioneered a lot of activity there But what I was struck is there was two slides in the presentation really focusing on the ecosystem One was really a hardware centric ecosystem with Dell and IBM and Lenovo And then you had a really software centric ecosystem slide as well So I wonder if you could talk a little bit about what working with those ecosystems Enables you guys to do that you couldn't do if you didn't have that the sport that he goes Partnering with both the leading server companies and the leading software companies is built into the DNA at fusion I owe because we know that customers don't just want a flash memory product They want a flash memory product that's going to benefit the applications that they run Ultimately transform that infrastructure, but more importantly transform their business and we can't do that alone from the get-go Fusion I owe has worked with the leading server companies so that customers can buy Fusion I owe products from those server companies that they work with most closely But also as you suggested it's not just the server in the flash memory that form the solution But it's the software as well So we spend a considerable event of time working with those partners such as Microsoft for sequel server particularly sequel server 2014 with SAP for SAP HANA with the open-source community around my SQL and with the Oracle community around Their database and also their my SQL group what that has allowed us to do is make it easy for customers They don't have to worry is this product going to work with my database They don't have to worry is this product going to work with my virtualization environment VM where of course one of our most important partners and so the benefit of all that hard work Which is years and years of hard work is that for customers? They can rest assured that the out-of-the-box experience will deliver the results they need for their critical applications So I got to ask you the hard question. When is GA? About 30 minutes ago after the yeah when the party got what's going on here So these products are readily available So the part products are also available will be available from our partners different partners work on slightly different schedules But if anybody has any questions they can call Fusion IO But the the goal here as with every generation of our products is to work closely with our partners So that customers can acquire the flash memory solutions from the path of their preferred choice. All right Well, thanks for coming on Gary again. Congratulations. You got a big party here a lot of fans and supporters Jeff Rick here again dogpatch studio San Francisco, California For the fusion IO atomic series launch with Gary Ornstein senior vice president of marketing. Thanks Gary. Thanks very much