Tag Archives: SolidFire

April 4, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenStack Grizzly Released Today

By Ben Kepes

In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading to Portland, Oregon briefly to attend past of the OpenStack summit (disclosures – the OpenStack foundation is supporting my T&E to attend the summit and Diversity Limited is writing a general guide to open source clouds for the foundation) As part of

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October 31, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SolidFire Picks up $25M Funding Round

By Ben Kepes

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, Dave Wright (see below). SolidFire is a company that aims to

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October 4, 2011 Posted in Flash memory, Hard disk drive Leave a comment

Cutting Edge Storage – On the Cheap

By Ben Kepes

A consistent theme in our CloudU reports is the fact that with Cloud Computing, organizations have access to the highest level of technology, at simple utility pricing levels. One of the areas that has seen a lot of technical innovation of late, and one where that innovation tends to cost lots of money, is that [...]

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June 27, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

SolidFire–Solid State Performance at Spinning Disk Pricing

By Ben Kepes

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 Rackspace. Based on the credibility and track record of the founders

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