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NetApp Holds Annual Conference Amidst Mandalay Bay Shooting

Posted on October 12, 2017 by wcurtispreston

If NetApp handles its business as well as it handled Insight 2017 – held in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas – NetApp will do just fine. The conference, held at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, went…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, GreenQloud, HCI, Hypervisor, Migration, NAS, NetApp, NetApp Insight, Replication, SolidFire, Spinnaker
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Analyst Blog: NetApp/SolidFire – Playing it Safe and Wasting $870 Million

Posted on December 22, 2015 by George Crump

Last week, ahead of the acquisition, we gave suggestions to NetApp on what it should do if it acquires SolidFire. This week NetApp moved forward with the purchase, and now $870 million later owns one of the better all-flash array…

Tagged with: Acquisition, All-Flash Array, Flash, NetApp, Next Generation, performance, SolidFire, SSD
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Analyst Blog: Making a NetApp/SolidFire Deal Work

Posted on December 17, 2015 by George Crump

The rumors around a potential NetApp/Solidfire deal seem to be heating up. My research leads me to believe there are some conversations between the two companies. CRN suggests that NetApp is interested in acquiring SolidFire for over a billion dollars.…

Tagged with: Acquisition, All-Flash, NetApp, Scale-Out, SolidFire, Unstructured data
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SolidFire Analyst Day: Unlimited Drive Wear, Seamless Upgrades, more Platforms

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Eric Slack

SolidFire has historically been a solution targeted for service providers and private clouds, with features that support Quality of Service (QoS), multi-tenancy, automation, etc. Their plan has been to provide a consolidated, high-performance storage solution that scales seamlessly and can…

Tagged with: Flash, QOS, Quality of service, SaaS, Software as a service, SolidFire, SSD
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Briefing Note: SolidFire shows why more and less is better for Software Releases

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

Nitrogen is SolidFire’s seventh generation OS release, following their theme of naming operating system versions after elements, Oxygen being the next. With 100+ elements on the period table, they should be set for the next several years of releases. While…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Infrastructure, SolidFire, SSD, VLAN
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SolidFire lowers Entry Point for Cloud-scale, All-flash Arrays

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Eric Slack

SolidFire is the all-flash array manufacturer that came to market with a scale-out storage system tailored for large-scale multi-tenant environments. These systems offered guaranteed performance, high availability, automated management and a strong efficiency story, based on the advantages that all-flash…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Capacity, Cloud, Infrastructure, IOPS, Multi-Tenant, Scalability, Scale-Out, SolidFire, SSD
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Should you be able to turn All-Flash Deduplication off?

Posted on November 10, 2014 by George Crump

Deduplication, along with compression, provides the ability to more efficiently use premium priced flash capacity. But capacity efficiency comes with at least some performance impact. This is especially true on all-flash arrays where data efficiency features can’t hide behind hard…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Kaminario, Latency, Permabit, Pure, SolidFire, Tegile, Texas Memory Systems, Violin Memory
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VMworld After Hours: SolidFire Party

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

After a busy day of shooting ChalkTalk videos Storage Switzerland took to the streets of San Francisco to see what was going on after hours. Our first stop of the night was an event at the Thirsty Bear, hosted by…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, QOS, Scale-Out, SolidFire, VMworld
Posted in Video

Storage Q&A: Is The Next Generation Data Center the “End-Game” for IT?

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The next generation data center is here. Highly virtualized servers, extreme VM density, thriving on flexibility, low cost and efficiency. So that’s the thumbnail look at this new data center concept. Here to talk about it in a little more…

Tagged with: Efficiency, Integration, Multi-Tenant, Next Generation Data Center, Object Storage, performance, Scale, SolidFire
Posted in Storage Q&A

SolidFire brings Agile Storage Infrastructure to the Enterprise

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Eric Slack

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) often walk on the edge of a knife. They have to supply the capacity and performance to meet their clients’ SLAs but still keep costs under control in a hyper-competitive environment. For their storage systems it’s…

Tagged with: Cloud Service Providers, Cluster, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, QOS, SLA, SolidFire
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