Flash storage vendor SolidFire has raised $82 million as it rides the wave of excitement about storage performance over the past few years. The Boulder, Colorado–based company is one of a handful of similar companies that have had no problem finding investors.…
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OnApp partners with Solidfire for fine-tuned, billable IOPS performance
Providers in OnApp's cloud federation who also run SolidFire's new all-SSD storage systems can now use the OnApp control panel to set guaranteed IOPS levels for high-performance customers.…
Read MoreSolidFire scores $31M from Samsung to bring more flash to clouds
SolidFire is taking on $31 million in new funding led by Samsung's venture arm to turn on more cloud providers to high-performance all-flash storage arrays.…
Read MoreForget offshore tax-havens & meet the offshore cloud
Can a niche player build a business offering an offshore cloud to rival Amazon's infrastructure as a service? Calligo wants to try. The startup has formed on the Channel Islands to provide an offshore cloud option for enterprises and eventually, an offshore personal storage account.…
Read More10 cloud startups to watch in 2012
All startup activity around cloud computing in the past few years has been great, but it also means there's precious little room on the playing field for newcomers. Here are 10 cloud startups launched in 2011 that have a chance to make it big in 2012.…
Read MoreSolidFire gets $25 million to boost flash-fueled cloud storage
SolidFire, which wants to bring all-solid-state storage to cloud providers serving you, raised an additional $25 million in venture capital bringing its total to $37 million. New investors in this second round include Data Domain veterans as well as former Sun Microsystems CTO Greg Papadopolous.…
Read MoreMeet Valhalla Partners’ new storage whiz kid
In a Silicon Valley technology landscape where young hotshots tend to make their marks with innovative new startups, Farah Giga is different. After nine years in various mangement positions at Hitachi Data Systems and HP, Giga, now 27, has joined Valhalla Partners as a principal.…
Read MoreMoving cloud storage to primetime requires new tech
New types of storage technology will be needed in order to shift cloud storage from a backup service to a primary function, according to a panel made up of storage entrepreneurs and execs at Structure 2011 in San Francisco on Thursday.…
Read MoreSolidFire readies SSD storage systems for cloud providers
Cloud storage startup SolidFire is giving cloud providers early access to its solid-state-disk-based systems for storing customers' data. The Atlanta-based company is building SSD-based appliances that it says will help ease the migration of enterprise applications into the cloud by significantly boosting storage performance.…
Read MoreFusion-io’s IPO went well; who wins?
Flash-storage component manufacturer Fusion-io is trading well above its initial public offering price, signaling that investors believe solid-state drives might actually live up to their promise to displace large quantities of spinning disks in enterprise data centers.…
Read MoreWhen It Rains, It Pours (Cash) for Storage Startups
It seems like when it rains for cloud storage startups, it pours, and this week was no exception. Egnyte closed a $10 million round, Scality closed a $7 million round, and RightScale chose Gluster to provide scale-out NAS within RightScale's cloud management platform.…
Read MoreSolidFire Adds Heat to Primary Cloud Storage with $11M
The cloud-storage funding train rolled on this morning with Atlanta-based startup SolidFire raising $11 million. It should be money well spent by the investors, as SolidFire plays at the intersection of two red-hot trends: primary cloud storage and SSDs.…
Read MoreJungledisk Founder Launches New Startup, SolidFire
Dave Wright, who founded the Amazon S3-based Jungledisk storage service, is back in the entrepreneurial saddle with today’s launch of the cloud-focused SolidFire. It's building a scale-out block storage offering, which will try to address the growing and vexing problem of storing virtual machine images.…
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