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The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Data Storage And Lots Of Biotech

Crunchbase News

DDN , $300M, data storage: Data is the big-money game right now. Private equity giant Blackstone Group is making a $300 million strategic investment into DDN , valuing the Chatsworth, California-based data storage company at $5 billion. billion to develop data centers in Spain. billion.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, Bablani said.

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Internxt gets $1M to be ‘the Coinbase of decentralized storage’

TechCrunch

Valencia-based startup Internxt has been quietly working on an ambitious plan to make decentralized cloud storage massively accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. We’ve kind of democratized storage.” “We leverage and use the space provided by professionals and individuals.

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Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers

TechCrunch

Data centers with servers attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) can suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute. Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of data transfers, Lightbits Labs CEO Eran Kirzner explains to TechCrunch.

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Africa’s digital economy and digital transformation

CIO

For data center capacity to spread to more regions of Africa, there will need to be a major effort to create structure for overland routes. 2 The data regulations landscape on the continent remains fluid, but its also a top priority within established data economies in Africa.

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AWS launches second region in India with a $4.4 billion commitment

CIO

AWS already has a region in Mumbai, which was launched in June 2016, and a local zone in New Delhi. Local zones, on the other hand, are infrastructure deployment that provides compute, storage and database services to a large population or industry centers. Cloud Computing, Data Center billion (Rs 15,000 crores).

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Azure Virtual Machine Tutorial

The Crazy Programmer

So I am going to select the Windows Server 2016 Data Center to create a Windows Virtual Machine. If you’re confused about what a region is – It is a group of data centers situated in an area and that area called a region and Azure gives more regions than any other cloud provider. For more – [link].

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