SolidFire
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia |
| Founder | Dave Wright, CEO |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Number of employees | 419 (2015)[1] |
| Parent | NetApp |
SolidFire, an American flash-storage and software-development company[2][3][4] based in Boulder, Colorado, employed over 400 people worldwide as of 2015[update].[5] It has additional offices in Australia, England, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.[6]
History
Founded in 2010 by Dave Wright[citation needed], Solidfire originally sold its software-defined storage to private cloud storage companies.[7][8] Previously, Wright was the first engineer hired by GameSpy[citation needed], which was later sold to IGN. He was chief architect at IGN through its merger with Fox Interactive Media when IGN was acquired by News Corp, Fox Interactive Media’s parent company, in 2005. Wright left the company and founded Jungledisk[weasel words] which was acquired by Rackspace in 2008. He then created SolidFire the following year and launched the company in stealth mode in 2010.[9]
The company relocated its headquarters from Atlanta, Georgia to Boulder in 2011,[10][11] and in 2012, the company began selling its arrays to both private and public consumers.[12]
In October 2014, SolidFire received $82 million in its Series D funding round,[13] the technology start-up industry’s largest venture capital round of the year in Colorado.[11] The company has raised a total of $150 million in funding since its establishment from investors including Samsung, New Enterprise Associates and Valhalla Partners.[6][14]
In 2015, SolidFire launched its Element OS Oxygen platform,[15] and Gartner ranked the company as No. 1 in five categories including and high-performance computing on its 2015.[16]
In December 2015, NetApp bought SolidFire for $870 million in cash. Close of the transaction is anticipated to conclude in the fourth quarter of 2016 [17]
References
- ^ Chuang, Tamara (August 11, 2015). "SolidFire to triple size, move headquarters to Boulder's new PearlWest". Denver Post. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
- ^ Ben Kepes (February 27, 2015). "Solidfire Ups The Ante In The Storage World". Forbes. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Chip Shots (October 9, 2014). "SolidFire's big round of funding shows flash storage has arrived". ITWorld. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Joesph F. Kovar (February 26, 2015). "SolidFire: Intros Element X, Guarantees Flash Array Upgrades, Endurance". CRN. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Chuang, Tamara (August 11, 2015). "SolidFire to triple size, move headquarters to Boulder's new PearlWest". Denver Post. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
- ^ a b Deborah Gage (October 7, 2014). "SolidFire Raises $82 Million for Pooled Storage on Flash Memory". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Sonia Lelii (March 20, 2015). "Healthcare storage provider gets QoS with Solidfire storage". TechTarget. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Antony Adshead (February 27, 2015). "Solidfire slots in all-flash SF9605 and debuts storage software Element X". Computer Weekly. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Sean Ludwig (October 31, 2011). "SolidFire raises $25M to boost cloud provider agility and performance". VentureBeat. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ^ Emerson Dameron (October 29, 2014). "Six Secrets of Solidfire's Colorado Success". Build in Colorado. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ a b Greg Avery (October 7, 2014). "Tech startup lands the industry's largest VC round of the year in Colorado". Denver Business Journal. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Jordan Novet (October 7, 2014). "SolidFire pulls out $82M for the flash-storage showdown". VentureBeat. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Sarah McBride (October 7, 2014). "Flash-storage player SolidFire raises $82 million". Reuters. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Michael Davidson (October 7, 2014). "SolidFire Lands $82 Million to Expand Flash Memory in Data Centers". Xconomy. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ Ben Kepes (June 11, 2015). "SolidFire Releases Latest Version Of Its Storage Operating System". Forbes. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
- ^ Shay Castle (July 1, 2015). "Boulder CEO wins EY Entrepreneur of the Year". Longmont Times Call. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
- ^ http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/1236424.htm
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