SolidFire bags blue chip execs, hopes storage street cred will follow

When a flash start-up gets a product for enterprise cloud service providers out the door it needs to become enterprise-like itself. SolidFire has done just that and recruited a trio of blue-chip storage execs.SolidFire makes modular scale-out flash arrays, with quality of service facilities, for cloud service providers. These respond faster to data access requests coming in from accessing servers than disk drive arrays or even flash-accelerated disk drive arrays. They also scale better, with SolidFire's arrays scaling up to 100 nodes.The first shiny bright new exec is RJ Weigel, who becomes the firm's president. He comes from HP where he was

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  1. Chris_Mellor

    20.0 days ago

    Solidfire gets three seasoned execs as it chases enterprise CSP customers - http://t.co/7hMq0UMm

  2. Stephen Foskett

    20.0 days ago

    Good read: SolidFire bags blue chip execs, hopes storage street cred will follow http://t.co/rxTdx0fF

  3. Liem Nguyen

    20.0 days ago

    Flash gets flashier RT @Chris_Mellor: Solidfire gets three seasoned execs as it chases enterprise CSP customers - http://t.co/vkwgUQVX



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