@DaveWright, founder and CEO of @SolidFire when that company was acquired by @NetApp, signaled his return from sabbatical Wednesday by running across the stage in response to a call for a stagehand to unveil the latest product based on SolidFire technology. Wright, who helped engineer NetApp's 2016 acquisition of SolidFire, in April left the company on a sabbatical. He made his surprise reappearance at the NetApp Insight 2017 conference during a Wednesday keynote introducing the pending availability of the new NetApp HCI hyper-converged infrastructure appliance which was built in large part on SolidFire all-flash storage technology. [Related: NetApp CEO Kurian Opens Insight Conference With Moment Of Silence For Las Vegas Shooting Victims, Intros Data Vision] When the NetApp HCI presenter asked for a stagehand to help pull the covers off a rack full of NetApp HCI appliances, Wright dashed from the left of the stage, stopped in the center, waved at the audience, and then dashed to the right of the stage to pull the cover off. He then pointed at the rack, smiled, and left the stage. A NetApp spokesperson declined to respond to a request for more information, other than to confirm that Wright had indeed returned from sabbatical and that he will be acting as an evangelist for the company's SolidFire technology going forward.
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