My report on SolidFire’s OpenStack reference architecture (RA) is now up. In addition to covering the RA itself, I was more curious to hear how the business had been going that is, “is it a thing?” As I put in my newsletter the day of the briefing, it seems like the answer is yes.
Here’s the 451 Take:
SolidFire’s flash-driven software-defined storage approach has always been interesting: It promises to act as a generic pool of very fast storage, supporting multiple workloads on each box, with different performance characteristics as desired. The company has been looking to move beyond being just another storage provider, and its reference architectures in OpenStack and VMware, sold under the Agile Infrastructure brand, seem to be doing just that. SolidFire says the resulting thought-leadership has changed many of its customer conversations to a holistic cloud discussion rather than it being just a parts supplier for cloud projects. Our ongoing work in cloud and OpenStack shows that end users are eager for simpler and easier approaches to getting up and running with public and private cloud, and with so many companies planning cloud projects in the next two years, SolidFire should find plenty of traction.
Clients can read the full report with some future looking plans, commentary on momentum and pipeline, and a similar RA for VMware that SolidFire just released
SolidFire’s OpenStack reference architecture is driving new sales and thought leadership