Benjamin Fradella

SolidFire delivers an unstoppable force for data center transformation Together with NetApp, we’re accelerating customers’ transition to the next generation data center SolidFire is born out of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world and built to solve the challenge of delivering high-performance applications from a multi-tenant infrastructure. Founded in 2010, SolidFire is a market leader in all-flash storage systems built for the next-generation data center where simple scaling, set-and-forget management, assured performance and multi-tenancy, and cloud economic models are driving new market growth. NetApp acquired SolidFire for $870 Million in February 2016 to create a combined flash portfolio that accelerates data center transformation. Customers can now achieve unrivaled scale, speed and data services for all their data center needs. With SolidFire, NetApp can better address customer needs in the growing, rapidly changing storage market . For the next-generation infrastructure buyer, SolidFire’s all-flash architecture, with volume-level Quality of Service (QoS) controls, gives customers guaranteed storage performance. SolidFire’s distributed, self-healing, webscale architecture also delivers seamless scalability, whitebox economics, and radically simple management. These capabilities enables customers to accelerate third platform use cases and webscale economics. SolidFire is an active leader in the cloud community with extensive integrated storage management capabilities with OpenStack, VMware, and other cloud frameworks.