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SolidFire Launches Fuelled by SolidFireT, an Unprecedented Go-to-Market Program Designed for Cloud Providers; Cloud Storage Leader Ensures Customer Success With Comprehensive Product Marketing, SLA, Lead Generation Support(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) London, UK -- SolidFire, the leader in all-solid-state (SSD) storage systems designed for cloud infrastructure, today launched Fuelled by SolidFireT, a comprehensive go-to-market program designed to support cloud providers' development, positioning, and growth of services built on SolidFire storage technology. "SolidFire has set the benchmark for delivering guaranteed Quality-of-Service (QoS) within a multi-tenant cloud infrastructure, but revolutionary technology is only half of the equation to being successful within the cloud landscape," said Jay Prassl, VP of Marketing at SolidFire. "For many cloud providers delivering guaranteed storage performance is a new concept and capability. The Fuelled by SolidFireT program eliminates the guesswork by delivering pricing, packaging, and market positioning support that helps customers optimize the success of their services." From Proof to Profit The Fuelled by SolidFireT program has four key phases and cloud providers are able to take advantage of the program as they see fit. The program supports cloud providers from proof-of-concept through revenue generation, and sustains growth through co-branded lead generation activities: * SolidFire Overview: In-depth market analysis, technical product deep-dive and live product demonstration * Productisation: Hands-on go-to-market workshop sessions to develop packaging, pricing, performance SLAs, and market positioning of services fuelled by SolidFire technology * Integration: Technical support for tying SolidFire into management and billing tools. Marketing / Sales support via co-branded collateral, sales and engineering training * Acceleration: Competitive benchmarking, case study development, and MDF supported lead generation New Storage QoS Assessment - Creating a Performance Roadmap for Cloud Providers In addition to the Fuelled by SolidFireTM program launch, SolidFire also announced availability of a Storage QoS Assessment. The assessment is free, fully customized, and is the quickest way for cloud service providers to understand how their current services relate to those in the market, and how SolidFire's guaranteed QoS will support differentiation and increased revenues. Advancing the way the world uses the cloud In a recent Zogby Analytics and SolidFire survey, 89 percent of enterprise cloud customers said they would put more applications in the cloud and 86 percent would pay more for cloud services if they were backed by firm performance SLAs. SolidFire is changing the way enterprises compute by enabling cloud providers to deliver the economics of cloud computing to every enterprise application. "The Fuelled by SolidFireTM program has been a unique and refreshing experience for us. They are delivering much more than a storage system," said Henrik Grankvist, co-founder of Elastx. "Their team has helped us to clearly understand the opportunity around delivering services with guaranteed performance. And with SolidFire's support we have built a comprehensive go-to-market plan that will help guide successful delivery and positioning of our services built on the SolidFire storage platform." Getting Started with the Fuelled by SolidFireT Program To get started with Fuelled by SolidFireT and request a free Storage QoS Assessment, visit www.solidfire.com/fueled-by-solidfire or call (720) 523-3278. About SolidFire SolidFire delivers high-performance data storage systems for cloud service providers. Leveraging an all-flash scale-out storage architecture with patented volume-level quality-of-service (QoS) controls, providers can now guarantee storage performance to thousands of applications within shared infrastructures. By using real-time data reduction techniques and system-wide automation, SolidFire is fuelling new and profitable block-storage services that are advancing the way the world uses the cloud. Learn more: www.solidfire.com www.twitter.com/solidfire www.facebook.com/solidfire Federica Monsone A3 Communications - the networked storage PR specialists T: +44 (0) 1252 875 203 M: +44 (0) 7958 986 916 F: +44 (0) 870 762 8672 E: [email protected] http://twitter.com/Fred_Monsone http://about.me/fred_monsone www.a3communicationspr.com ((M2 Communications disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.com on the world wide web. Inquiries to [email protected])). (c) 2013 M2 COMMUNICATIONS |