Spectra Logic heats up sales with ArcticBlue

The press always goes for the flashiest of all solutions, but in the data-storage game, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

“If you think about flash (solid state drives for storage), it is mostly used for performance solutions, as it costs as much as $3 or $4 per gigabyte of storage — our product is as little as 10 cents a gigabyte,” said Nathan Thompson, founder and CEO of Boulder’s Spectra Logic Corp. “We are often secondary and tertiary solutions, but we’re where all the data ends up going.”

So while data centers serving functions…