It might not be as exciting as "Dancing With The Stars," but it was enough to get Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak out of retirement.

Wozniak joined solid state storage startup Fusion-io last month amid great fanfare, in the process uniting one of the IT industry's biggest names with one of its hottest technologies. Based on his reviews on the TV dance show thus far, his chances of success appear much greater at Fusion-io.

Flash-based stolid state drives (SSDs) have been one of the few bright spots for tech spending in a down economy. Despite costing 10 or more times as much as hard disk drives (HDD), SSDs have been catching on in enterprise servers and data storage as a way to speed up the most critical applications.

While the biggest names in the industry have gravitated toward flash drives that emulate hard drives, Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io and a few others have focused on PCIe connections as a way to maximize the drives' performance. The company's products include the ioDrive (a direct attached device), ioSAN for storage networking, and ioXtreme for read-intensive environments.

By: DocMemory
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