NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) triggered a wave of headlines across the web Monday evening with the news that it’s buying flash memory startup SourceFire and what the deal means.

Here’s a sampling.

  • SolidFire deal gives NetApp the season’s hottest gifts: flash and cloud

PCWorld

NetApp wants to be at the intersection of two hot trends in a rapidly changing storage industry with its planned US$870 million acquisition of startup SolidFire. The five-year-old company has an all-flash architecture for distributed web-scale data …

  • NetApp to buy flash storage startup SolidFire for $870M

Computerworld

NetApp is acquiring startup SolidFire for $870 million in cash for a foothold in the fast-growing market for scale-out flash storage. SolidFire’s all-flash systems will let enterprises take advantage of the scale and cost advantages enjoyed by Web …

  • NetApp Acquiring SolidFire for $870 Million to Boost Flash

Bloomberg

NetApp Inc. agreed to buy SolidFire Inc. for $870 million in cash to boost its presence in the growing market for systems that can retrieve and store vast amounts of data at rapid speeds. NetApp was the No. 4 player in the market for flash-storage …

  • NetApp Acquires SolidFire For $870 Million

Forbes

Storage industry veteran NetApp today announced it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire scale-out all-flash storage maker SolidFire, for $870 million in cash. Founded in 2010, SolidFire has focused on the service provider market, building a …

  • NetApp buys SolidFire for $870 million

ZDNet

NetApp on Monday said it will acquire SolidFire, a Colorado-based maker of data storage hardware for cloud-mined data centers, for $870 million in cash. What’s Hot on ZDNet. The 5 trends that rocked business tech in 2015 · Can you name this vintage tech?

  • NetApp Buys Flash Storage Startup SolidFire for $870M

Barron’s

Shares of storage equipment maker NetApp (NTAP) are unchanged in late trading at $27.60 after the company this afternoon said it would buy storage startup SolidFire for $870 million in cash, to boost its presence in the area of solid-state drive-based …

  • NetApp snaps up flash player SolidFire

CRN

NetApp has rounded of its year by acquiring all-flash firm SolidFire in a move it claims will bolster its flash offering. NetApp is set to cough up $870m (£584.23m) for the firm in a deal which is expected to close in its Q4 next year. SolidFire is a …

  • NetApp to acquire all-flash peddler SolidFire for $870M

SiliconANGLE

If and when the acquisition is completed, NetApp will get its hands on a specialist all-flash storage system maker for enterprise data centers. The benefits of flash in the data center need no introduction – it’s a faster, quieter and more energy …