Solid-state array company SolidFire has moved into the French and German markets with the assistance of such channel partners as Alyseo and DTS (News - Alert) Systeme. The company sells a storage platform that can consolidate mixed workloads, guarantee performance for each workload, and seamlessly scale.
Web hosting provider 1&1 (News - Alert) is among SolidFire’s first customers in Germany. The company is leveraging SolidFire’s all-flash scale-out storage platform for its new generation of cloud servers.
"Our aim is to make the cloud easy – that's our promise to our customers,” said 1&1's CEO Robert Hoffmann. “We take the complexity of building and deploying a cloud away from our customers and focus on giving them a first-class cloud experience – low latency, maximum performance and a simple pricing structure.
"SolidFire enables 1&1 to easily create high-performance cloud deployments and scale them up or down based on our customers' business needs,” he added, “while providing each customer with the exact resources they require without impacting the performance of other customers."
“The data center of the future has to be agile, built around IT infrastructure technology that supports the speed at which enterprises need to adapt and respond to dynamic business conditions,” said Eric Burgener, research director at IDC. “This has specific implications for storage in these environments, requiring high performance, broad scalability and flexibility, extremely high availability and an ability to easily integrate into evolving data center workflows.”
Gartner (News - Alert) in its 2015 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays named SolidFire a visionary in this product category. Other companies Gartner sees as visionaries in this space are Kaminario and Tegile. It lists EMC (News - Alert), Pure Storage, IBM, and HP as the leaders in this product category. Gartner calls NetApp a challenger in this space. And niche players, according to Gartner, include Cisco, Fujitsu, Huawei (News - Alert), Nimbus Data, and Violin Memory.
Edited by Rory J. Thompson