influencing NetApp OnCommand Insight. 2010 Bycast acquired for $50 million. Technologies from Bycast gave birth to the StorageGRID object storage product. 2011 Akorri acquired for $60 million, allowing for cross-domain analysis and advanced analytics across data center infrastructures. 2011 Engenio (LSI) acquired for $480 million. Engenio was the external storage systems business unit of the LSI Corporation. Launched as NetApp E-Series product line 2012 Cache IQ: Development of NAS cache systems 2013 IonGrid: A technology developer that allows iOS devices to access users and internal business applications through a secure connection 2014 SteelStore: NetApp acquired Riverbed Technology's SteelStore line of data backup and protection products, which it later renamed as AltaVault and then to Cloud Backup 2015 SolidFire: In December 2015 (closing in January 2016), NetApp acquired founded in 2009 flash storage vendor SolidFire for $870 million. 2017 Plexistor: NetApp first announced the acquisition of a company and technology called Plexistor in May 2017. Technologies from Plexistor gave start for MAX Data product 2017 Greenqloud was acquired with its Qstack product. Greenqloud was a private startup company that created cloud services, orchestration and management platform for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. 2017 Immersive Partner Solutions, a Littleton, Coloradobased developer of software to validate multiple converged infrastructures through their lifecycles 2018 StackPointCloud: NetApp acquired StackPointCloud, a project for multi-cloud Kubernetes as-a-service and a contributor to the Kubernetes which started the Kubernetes Service product 2019 Cognigo: Israeli AI-driven data compliance and security supplier 2020 Talon: Cloud Data Storage company enabling data consolidation and security for enterprises. 2020 CloudJumper: Cloud software in VDI and remote desktop services 2020 Spot: handled compute management and cost optimization in the public clouds 2021 CloudHawk.io: AWS Cloud Security Posture. 2021 CloudCheckr: Cloud Optimization Platform. 2022 Fylamynt: CloudOps automation technology company. 2022 Instaclustr: open source database startup. Competition NetApp competes in the computer data storage hardware industry. In 2009, NetApp ranked second in market capitalization in its industry behind EMC Corporation, now Dell EMC, and ahead of Seagate Technology, Western Digital, Brocade, Imation, and Quantum. In total revenue of 2009, NetApp ranked behind EMC, Seagate, Western Digital, and ahead of Imation, Brocade, Xyratex, and Hutchinson Technology. According to a 2014 IDC report, NetApp ranked second in the network storage industry "Big 5's list", behind EMC (Dell), and ahead of IBM, HP and Hitachi. According to Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays, NetApp was named a leader, behind