Steve Wozniak Hangs Out With HP Again

Once upon Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak worked at another well-known hardware maker. Seasoned veterans of Woz-lore will know he had an earlier career stint at Hewlett-Packard. That’s why Wozniak is part of a new campaign featuring Fusion-io products and HP as the OEM partner. Here’s the scoop…

In February 2009, Steve Wozniak teamed up with Fusion-io. As ‘chief scientist’ there, Wozniak helped design Fusion-io’s claim to fame, which is advanced data storage featuring solid state storage. According to the video interview on HP’s promotional website, Wozniak gushes about his time working at HP and was excited to hear that Fusion-io had some OEM partners, including HP. The most notable quote coming from Wozniak, however, wasn’t about Fusion-io. It was about the good old days at HP…

HP’s new announcement involves their HP IO Accelerators with the aforementioned Fusion-io technology in them. HP is using the technology to boost blade storage, speed and eliminate application bottlenecks. And Wozniak had one important thing to say about that…

So, on  June 22nd, HP will kick off the announcement and Steve Wozniak will be there since it’s been dubbed “Woz’s launch party.” If you want the nitty gritty about the Fusion-io /HP component, you can check it out here.

VARs working in the virtualization and storage market might be interested. But for the rest of the world, it’s an amusing dichotomy to view Wozniak’s current focus vs. that of his former business partner, Steve Jobs.

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