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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

Two at the forefront are David Friend and Jeff Flowers, who co-founded Wasabi, a cloud startup offering services competitive with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Wasabi launched just a few years ago, in 2015. ” Continued Friend: “It’s lucky that we’re in the data storage business.

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Kaiyo gets $36M Series B for its secondhand furniture marketplace

TechCrunch

Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. . Kaiyo provides fast, free pickup for sellers and cleaning, photography, storage and delivery to buyers — all at no cost to its sellers.

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Think carefully before considering cloud repatriation

CIO

Most IT leaders have assets moved to the cloud to achieve some combination of better, faster, or cheaper compute and storage services. While computing power and hardware costs are lower on the cloud, your approach may not allow you to enjoy these savings,” explains Neal Sample, consultant and former CIO of Northwestern Mutual.

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Ahead of the curve on advanced cooling for AI & HPC

CIO

While direct liquid cooling (DLC) is being deployed in data centers today more than ever before, would you be surprised to learn that we’ve been deploying it in our data center designs at Digital Realty since 2015? Liquid cooling is not appropriate for all hardware or every scenario. This enabled a 400% faster deployment.

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Big Data & Brews from Strata NY 2015: Tony Baer on Spark in the Hadoop Ecosystem

CTOvision

At least on the storage side of Hadoop, HDFS, the Hadoop Distributed File System, is that a unifying aspect or is even that …. How’s that? Andrew: I like the irony there. Tony: Yeah. Andrew: Cheers.

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AI on the mainframe? IBM may be onto something

CIO

billion in 2015 to less than $6.5 There are very few platforms out there that can offer hardware-assisted AI. Huge savings in hardware — particularly on GPUs — is another. The new DPU is built to accelerate complex I/O protocols for networking and storage on the mainframe.

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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia

CTOvision

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 CTOvision publisher and Cognitio Corp co-founder Bob Gourley hosted an event for federal big data professionals. Hadoop offers petabytes of data storage and can handle multiple workloads. With Garcia’s final remarks, he debuted Intel’s hardware acceleration figures. By Katie Kennedy.

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