I was somewhere near Everest Base Camp the day the news came out that NetApp was buying Solidfire for close to $1 billion, so it took a few days before I caught up on the fact. On the one…
1&1, a subsidiary of United Internet, manages over 19 million domain names worldwide as well as running over 70,000 servers for its cloud hosting business. The company has created a new generation of cloud services that it hopes will…
High flying storage vendor SolidFire is today releasing the latest version of its storage operating system. For those who haven’t come across this vendor before, SolidFire is one of the vendors shaking things up in the storage space. In their case, the…
Solidfire this week held its annual analyst day in Boulder (disclosure, Solidfire covered my travel and expenses to attend the event). The company gathered 50 analysts from around the world to hear its vision for the future of storage. Solidfire is a p…
VideoSolidFire is one of the hot new storage companies delivering a combination of smart software alongside the use of solid state drives. SolidFire has been on something of a dream run since I first met up with founder Dave Wright a little over three …
One would think that by using an open source cloud operating system like OpenStack, enterprises could forget about reference architectures, after all, the cloud operating system should just work and, so long as an individual component supports any part…
VideoSolidFire is one of a new generation of companies that has arisen from both the availability, and the awareness of the benefits that solid state storage brings. SolidFire delivers a flash-based, scale out storage system that it claims is built for…
Big news in the solid state drive world today sees SolidFire announcing a USD25M funding round. I’ve written about SolidFire previously and took the opportunity at Structure earlier this year to spend time talking to their founder and CEO,…
I spent some time last week talking with Dave Wright, CEO of SolidFire at the Structure conference. SolidFire was formed by the founders of JungleDisk after they’d served out their earn out time post the acquisition of JungleDisk by…
Kilton Hopkins has spent his career creating technologies for real-world use, most recently around IoT and the edge He was IoT adviser to the most tech-forward city of them all, San Francisco. Farah Papaioannou jumped out of the enterprise…