Storage Brief – NetApp and SolidFire

In Q4 of 2016 NetApp announced the acquisition of SolidFire and completed the acquisition this year, Q1 2016.

If you haven’t looked at SolidFire, here is a very brief overview.

SolidFire is all flash storage (competitors XtremIO, Pure Storage, etc).
It has all the things you expect from a current top tier solution:
- Block level deduplication
- Data protection and re-balance data after failure.
- Easy scale-out storage
- Simplified management compared to traditional storage
If it is like it’s competitors, what is unique and why buy it?
- Performance, guaranteed performance
  - You can set QOS for I/O performance so your critical apps always have performance. No more relying on alerts and searching through performance graphs to try and determine why your critical app’s storage is slow.