BOULDER - SolidFire Inc., a Boulder-based company that is developing all solid-state data-storage systems for cloud service providers, went public today with details about its products and plans to get its systems to cloud network operators.

The startup, which has opened an office at 1620 Pearl St. Suite 200 and has been hiring, had so far kept quiet about its plans and the capabilities of its system. The company has raised $12 million in venture capital.

SolidFire's systems, which consist of solid-state drives and not the disk-based architectures of traditional data-storage systems, will increase system performance while improving capacity utilization to more than 85 percent, a release from the company said.

"Our discussions with cloud providers continue to show that traditional disk-based architectures are not suited for broad-scale deployment within the cloud. These systems quickly become I/O-bound at cloud scale, leaving customers with poor and unpredictable performance.  In addition, traditional storage system are complex to manage, expensive and lack the automation that cloud service providers require," SolidFire founder and chief executive Dave Wright said in the release.

SolidFire also has initiated what it has named its Early Access Program to provide the storage system to service providers for about the same price as a traditional storage system. Providers will receive storage infrastructure, software and onsite technical support to assist with testing and integration.

Details about the system and program can be found online at www.solidfire.com.