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Choosing a cloud infrastructure provider: A beginner’s guide

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Sashank Purighalla Contributor Share on Twitter Sashank Purighalla is the founder and CEO of BOS Framework , a cloud enablement platform. The promise of lower hardware costs has spurred startups to migrate services to the cloud, but many teams were unsure how to do this efficiently or cost-effectively.

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CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment

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CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. CoreWeave was founded in 2017 by Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee to address what they saw as “a void” in the cloud market.

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Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting

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Ironically, Pilot says it aspires to the “AWS of SMB backoffice.” (In We look forward to supporting Pilot in their vision to make back office services as easy-to-use, scalable, and ubiquitous as AWS has with the cloud,” he said. In fact, co-founder Waseem Daher started his career as an intern at Amazon).

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? But only a couple of years later, I was running a bunch of stuff on top of AWS. Back then, AWS had something like two services: EC2 and S3. Infinite scalability. Lower costs.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

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After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

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Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. Our goal is to deliver business value for our franchisees and our guests by leveraging AWS.”

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Warren gets $1.4 million to help local cloud infrastructure providers compete against Amazon and other giants

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Started as a side project by its founders, Warren is now helping regional cloud infrastructure service providers compete against Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google and other tech giants. AWS remains in firm control of the cloud infrastructure market. It recently closed a $1.4