[lanman]

HN lurker/flash geek here.

I don't want to derail your question, but I just wanted to point out that SolidFire doesn't actually sell cloud instances - we sell service provider/enterprise storage appliances.

Essentially it's a storage system (like EMC, NetApp, etc.) designed to, among other things, allow service providers (Rackspace, DigitalOcean) to easily provision (via REST API) virtualized storage devices for their cloud tenants. These service providers then typically resell this as a capability in their own public API or management console.

(Full disclosure that you may have picked up from my earlier phrasing, I am a SolidFire employee.)

[mankash666]

Thanks for the clarification. What is your estimate of the flash based IaaS market?