SolidFire Opens Singapore Office

SolidFire, Inc. announced international expansion into the AsiaPac region with a new regional HQ in Singapore and the growth of its EMEA team to support a growing number of international customers.

Global expansion follows a year of major company growth, including strategic partnerships with VMware, Inc., OpenStack and Citrix Systems, Inc., along with customer wins that continue to demonstrate adoption and application of its all-flash arrays.

 AsiaPac expansion will be driven out of SolidFire’s regional office in Singapore, led by Kris Day, MD for AsiaPac. Kris joins SolidFire with more than 10 years of experience in the storage industry both in the UK and AsiaPac.

 SolidFire also welcomed 18-year storage partner and alliance veteran Ian Cooper to the team. Based in the UK, Ian serves as the EMEA director of partnerships and channel, focusing on expanding SolidFire’s presence across the EMEA region.

In addition to international sales leadership, the company also continues to vigorously expand system engineering and technical support teams across all regions.

“Singapore’s robust infrastructure and strong connectivity to the rest of the region makes it the optimal city to headquarter SolidFire’s AsiaPac operation,” said SolidFire’s VP of International, Tim Pitcher. “Through policies that welcome global business, Singapore has built a strong ecosystem of innovation that will be beneficial for SolidFire to join. Our expansion into Asia and our growing European presence allows us to quickly respond to growing product demand in these regions.“

“Strong customer response, along with growing enterprise demand for predictable, high-performance cloud storage infrastructure has accelerated our ability to expand our presence globally,” stated Dave Wright, SolidFire founder and CEO. “Each of these large-scale enterprises is at a transition point. They are all defining their Next Generation Data Center and are benchmarking themselves against the operational and economic efficiencies of large-scale public clouds. SolidFire’s all-flash array is at the heart of this transformation. We grew our teams close to 80% in 2013 and expect that growth to continue throughout 2014 as enterprise IT continues to evolve. We have a call out to the best in the storage industry to join our team this year.“

With the release of Element OS Version 6, SolidFire has added key functionality and protocol support that enables a broader set of enterprise customers to take advantage of the agile, scalable and predictable storage infrastructure. New support for FC, Real-Time Replication, Mixed Node Clusters, and Integrated Backup and Restore enablesto deliver a complete enterprise feature set of any all-flash array on the market.

Increasing pressure on enterprise IT to deliver services while keeping costs low has been felt. Worldwide, enterprises are evolving their data center infrastructure and functionality with SolidFire’s all-flash array technology. With multi-site deployments in the US, Europe and Asia, SolidFire continues to secure its place in the marketplace and is creating a oundation for expansion.