UTAH-based Fusion-io is making waves in Silicon Valley. With companies such as Facebook and Apple as clients, the $US2 billion ($1.9bn) start-up produces so-called NAND flash boards that are becoming a building block of modern data centres.
The NAND form of flash memory is used in USB sticks, solid state drives and mobile phones, and is going big in the cloud.
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