Opening Up: 9 Privately Held Storage Vendors Break Out Some Financials

Filtering A Little Daylight Into The Dark

Unless you are a prospective equity investor, trying to get financial information about privately held companies is difficult. However, a few private storage vendors early this year provided some details into their financials for 2015.

Keep in mind that, with the exception of Nutanix, which was gearing up for an IPO, the kind of data provided by such companies has not been prepared according to the strict regulations public companies must file when reporting revenue, earning, and other financial data. Many of these startups report "record" growth in a number of areas, but it is understood that this growth is based off fairly small comparisons.

Here are nine storage vendors that provided a look at their numbers for 2015.