One of the few private vendors left in the all-flash storage market, #SolidFire, is taking a different route than its better known -- and newly public -- rival, #PureStorage Inc.
Both vendors began shipping arrays in 2011, but Pure quickly amassed more than $530 million in funding, ramped up sales and became a public company in October. SolidFire took a more measured approach, picked up $150 million in funding, and set out to build a base of large enterprise and cloud-provider customers. Pure racked up nearly three times the revenue as SolidFire in 2014, according to research firm Gartner Inc., but also incurred heavy losses.
SolidFire founder and CEO Dave Wright said his strategy is to steadily grow its base and hit profitability quicker than Pure. #SearchSolidStateStorage recently spoke with Wright about SolidFire's plans and the all-flash storage market.
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