Flash storage solutions provider Fusion-io is having its first earnings call today since it went public in June, making it a good time to recap on how the company has been doing in this timeframe.  The most recent development comes from a white paper released by StatSoft, a maker of data analytics and management offerings.

StatSoft tested how its flagship STATISTICA works with Fusion’s ioMemory , and found that CPU utilization increased to 90 percent compared to the 32 percent that was achieved with disk-based alternatives. The paper also noted a 300 percent increase in data performance and 500 percent  latency reduction when running on a machine with Fusion’s storage acceleration component.

Another organization that’s leveraging ioMemory is the Protein Data Bank. PDB is a joint effort by the University of California, San Diego and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to analyze large molecules and nucleic acids. A box equipped with two quad-core Intel Xeon  prcessors, four 320 GB ioDrives mounted and configured as a single 1.2 TB RAID 0 device and 48 GB of DDR3-1066 memory is used to carry out the PDB’s workloads.

“Using traditional hard drive disks, a query analyzing more than 200 million protein structures took 30 minutes.

“With Fusion’s shared data decentralization technologies – which place the storage memory medium right next to the processor to significantly reduce latency and increase processing speed – the same query took just three minutes,” saidRobert Sinkovits, SDSC computational scientist and Gordon Applications Lead.”

Ever since Fusion-io launched its IPO, its stock has been steadily on the rise. In just 20 days the company’s shares climbed from $19 to $33.29, though they declined somewhat after three of its underwriters,  Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley, gave it a neutral rating while Kulbinder Garcha of Credit Suiss rated it a buy.  FIO is currently up 24 percent.