SolidFire CEO Dave Wright has left NetApp

SolidFire CEO Dave Wright has left NetApp, less than eighteen months after the storage company he founded was acquired by the big blue staple. Wright was in place as recently as March this year when he briefed El Regon NetApp's hyper-converged appliance development project, which is based on SolidFire tech. NetApp's ex-CTO at SolidFire, Val Bercovici, confirmed to El Reg that Wright had left the company. We understand Wright is taking a much-deserved break with the family. Wright founded a scale-out all-flash array startup SolidFire and turned it into a concern for which NetApp paid US$870m in December 2015.