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A #FlashbackFriday story, April 2015. Coraid sold back to the founder and out of the ashes came InterModal Data. It was tough times getting any type of funding in storage back then. We left an awesome product on the table a year later. This was my office view in Santa Clara.

[datamattsson]

A belated Flashback Friday. New Coraid bezels had just arrived in the UK office on this day 2012! Pictured here is an ESM, VSX and a SRX.

[datamattsson]

A late #FlashbackFriday. Just arrived in Redwood City, CA six years ago setting up my lab. Benchmarking Solaris ZFS with Coraid

[datamattsson]

A throwback Thursday like no other. Six years ago I started my first day at Coraid in the US. I had been working a bit more than year in their UK office waiting for visa papers and timelines. I should probably write this up more detailed, what a journey it has been.

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A VMworld 2013 throwback with Coraid!

[georgeacrump]

An Alternative Path to Storage Modernization – Coraid Briefing Note

Latest @klmacomber Note: An Alternative Path to Storage Modernization – Coraid

Disruption is the hallmark of today’s storage industry. The steady maturation of new delivery models (cloud services), media (flash) and access protocols (NVMe) evidence the fact that legacy storage architectures are no longer sufficient. Businesses are turning to ever-growing data pools to innovate, to maximize customer and employee satisfaction, and to uncover other new competitive…

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Never Obsolete Without the Green

New @georgeacrump Article: Never Obsolete Without the Green

Recently, storage vendors started to promote a concept of evergreen storage. Essentially, the vendor will swap out the customer’s storage hardware with the latest, more capable hardware at some point in the maintenance contract. The problem is this swap-out is too complete, the vendor provides new software, new storage media along with the new hardware.

The customer is paying a premium for this…

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Coraid - A Storage Company Without an Exit Strategy

New @georgeacrump Note: Coraid - A Storage Company Without an Exit Strategy

For most storage startups, it is all about the “exit strategy” – also known as the liquidity event. That is the moment where years and sometimes decades of non-profitability is made up for by either being bought or going public. Going public doesn’t always help. How many profitable public-held storage companies are there? Here is a new concept, what if a company focused on being profitable while…

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