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Scale Computing CEO questions SimpliVity valuation

19 January 2017 • 3 min read

Jeff Ready claims valuation shows that SimpliVity's revenue is lower than most in the industry thought

The CEO of hyper-converged vendor Scale Computing has questioned both the valuation and revenue of competitor SimpliVity after HPE announced its acquisition of the firm for $650m. While the take...

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