Fusion-io was a computer hardware and software systems company founded in 2005 in Salt Lake City, Utah, that pioneered PCIe-based flash memory (NAND) storage for enterprise data centers under the ioMemory, ioDrive, ioFX and ioScale product lines. Steve Wozniak served as its Chief Scientist.

Copan Systems was an enterprise data-storage company founded in 2002 and based in Longmont, Colorado, known for pioneering MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) technology for long-term persistent and archival storage. Its Enterprise MAID architecture powered down idle disks to cut power, cooling, and floor-space costs in the data center.