Integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems manufacturer StoneFly announced it has signed an original equipment manufacturing agreement (OEM) with high performance I/O solutions provider Fusion-io. Through the agreement StoneFly’s SCVM and ESS Windows virtual SAN software appliances will be bundled with Fusion-io’s ioMemory product line, and the new platform will be offered to joint customers.

“The primary goals of this new platform are to significantly extend system performance, provide for sharable, iSCSI connected storage, and give the ability to be provisioned as IP-SAN for internal quest VMs as well as outside hosts in virtual environments.”

According to a release, the 10GigE based platform offers “remarkably low latency” as well as end to end content protection and disaster recovery. The offering also providers scalable bandwidth and the ability to create a shareable storage network in both cloud and traditional datacenters.

Fusion-io had yet another announcement in this 48-hour time frame, which noted that one of its customers, messaging security vendor Cloudmark, has been chosen as a finalist in the category of Best Practices in Storage Resiliency, Data Protection and Recovery in the SNW Spring 2011 Best Practices Awards Program.

In addition to providing some buzz for Fusion-io, this announcement seems to reflect the reason behind the company’s spiraling growth fairly well. After all, while it may not be ready for an IPO just yet, it already managed to sign up Facebook as a customer. In addition, the company recently reached a milestone with over 15 petabytes of enterprise flash shipped, and a bit earlier teamed up with Japan’s Tokyo Electron Device to launch a line of io-Memory based products responding to customer demand.

Fusion’s competitors also had a fair share of updates lately. That includes Violin Memory, which raised $35 in Series B funding.