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SolidFire QoS is the most advanced QoS control available for provisioning performance in a multi-tenant cloud environment. How would you leverage the ability to guarantee storage performance for your customers?

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Distributed Systems Challenges Demand Different Skill-set
by Dave Wright

SolidFire's unique approach to scale-out all-SSD storage for cloud environments involves different engineering challenges than those confronted by traditional storage systems. Rather than focusing on ASICs, buses, and RAID firmware, SolidFire is solving difficult distributed systems problems dealing with scale, latency, reliability, and quality of service. The magnitude of this challenge requires us to continually add new talent with experience in this area. We've added more than a dozen great people to the team so far this year. One recent hire I'd like to highlight is our new Vice President of Engineering, Dan Berg.

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Big Players Make Big Plays
by Dave Wright

EMC has made a big play with its announced acquisition of XtremIO for a reported $430 million. In acquiring the all-flash scale-out flash storage system vendor, EMC has made another aggressive bet in an emerging growth market. When a growth opportunity justifies making a bet, EMC is best in class at getting it done. But to assume EMC spent $430 million to simply double down on its investment in flash is shortsighted.

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Our Thoughts Off The Recent Solid State Storage Symposium
by Jay Prassl

Last week our Founder and CEO Dave Wright attended Tech Field Day's Solid State Storage Symposium (SSSS) in San Jose. At the event he joined a number of other companies from across the flash storage ecosystem for a day full of lively discussions on the most optimal use cases, implementation types and future directions for flash technology.

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