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Yelp accelerates databases to deliver reviews on short order

Yelp, the company that connects customers with local businesses, is accelerating its databases to ensure that users can search and find local restaurants, boutiques and other businesses in an instant.

Yelp has more than 53 million reviews posted about businesses in 24 countries in North America, Europe, South America and Asia-Pacific. In addition to reviews, the company also provides services such as in-app ordering, localized event calendars, lists and messaging services.

Using Fusion ioMemory solutions, the Yelp Engineering team ensures that users can search and find local restaurants, boutiques and other businesses in an instant. Flash makes it fast for Yelp to deliver value‐added services such as ordering from directly within the Yelp mobile application, fueling commerce through rapid database transactions.

Implementing Fusion ioMemory into its datacenters gives Yelp the headroom to scale performance as user base and reviews databases continue to expand, providing flexible support for growth. Fusion ioMemory also enabled the Yelp Engineering team to prolong the lifespan of the company’s existing datacenter infrastructure, producing an immediate return on the company’s flash investment.

From e-commerce retailers to the world’s social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, Fusion-io’s customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical applications.