By Angela Chen
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak will join data-visualization
start-up Primary Data Inc. as its chief scientist.
Mr. Wozniak, a Silicon Valley icon famous for engineering the
Apple personal computer, had worked with several Primary Data
executives at flash-storage company Fusion-io Inc.
Primary Data is the new venture of former Fusion-io Chief
Executive David Flynn, who made a surprise departure in May 2013
after the board asked him to resign. Fusion-io had been among the
first to import the flash-storage chips used on iPhones into the
data center.
"At Fusion-io, [Mr. Wozniak] helped us showcase the
breakthroughs possible by adding flash in the enterprise, and we're
excited to have him on the team at Primary Data," said Primary Data
CEO Lance Smith, who had been Fusion-Io's chief operating
officer.
Mr. Wozniak will advise the company on software
architecture.
"Innovations like wearables, digital assistants, and the
Internet of Things are making computing more and more transparent
in our lives, and for technology to remain accessible, we need to
ensure data remains seamless as it serves us information," said Mr.
Wozniak.
Primary Data--which just emerged from stealth mode and has
raised venture funding--creates software that connects pools of
data in a way that is visible to all servers in a company computer
and in the cloud.
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