Crunchbase News

JANUARY 10, 2025

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.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The world must reshape its technology infrastructure to ensure artificial intelligence makes good on its potential as a transformative moment in digital innovation. Mabrucco first explained that AI will put exponentially higher demands on networks to move large data sets. How does it work?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A digital workspace is a secured, flexible technology framework that centralizes company assets (apps, data, desktops) for real-time remote access. Digital workspaces encompass a variety of devices and infrastructure, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), data centers, edge technology, and workstations.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

For generative AI, a stubborn fact is that it consumes very large quantities of compute cycles, data storage, network bandwidth, electrical power, and air conditioning. But while the payback promised by many genAI projects is nebulous, the costs of the infrastructure to run them is finite, and too often, unacceptably high.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This development is due to traditional IT infrastructures being increasingly unable to meet the ever-demanding requirements of AI. This is done through its broad portfolio of AI-optimized infrastructure, products, and services. Behind the Dell AI Factory How does the Dell AI Factory support businesses’ growing AI ambitions?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Historically, data center virtualization pioneer VMware was seen as a technology leader, but recent business changes have stirred consternation since its acquisition by Broadcom in late 2023. Many customers remain wary, prompting IT leaders to explore alternatives and adjust their strategies regarding VMware products.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Few CIOs would have imagined how radically their infrastructures would change over the last 10 years — and the speed of change is only accelerating. To keep up, IT must be able to rapidly design and deliver application architectures that not only meet the business needs of the company but also meet data recovery and compliance mandates.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

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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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Orsini notes that it has never been more important for enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT infrastructure. They are intently aware that they no longer have an IT staff that is large enough to manage an increasingly complex compute, networking, and storage environment that includes on-premises, private, and public clouds.

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Dell EMC

MARCH 17, 2020

Over the years, as data center complexity has increased to support the volume, variety, velocity and veracity of data in the enterprise, organizations often find it challenging to get a clear understanding of how infrastructure is performing. READ MORE.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that.

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CIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

In today’s IT landscape, organizations are confronted with the daunting task of managing complex and isolated multicloud infrastructures while being mindful of budget constraints and the need for rapid deployment—all against a backdrop of economic uncertainty and skills shortages.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Managing a fleet of edge devices across locations can be a burden on IT teams that lack the necessary infrastructure. Jeff Ready asserts that his company, Scale Computing , can help enterprises that aren’t sure where to start with edge computing via storage architecture and disaster recovery technologies.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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, which doesn’t charge fees for egress or API requests, claims its storage fees work out to one-fifth of the cost of Amazon S3’s.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Unfortunately for execs, at the same time recruiting is posing a major challenge, IT infrastructure is becoming more costly to maintain. MetalSoft allows companies to automate the orchestration of hardware, including switches, servers and storage, making them available to users that can be consumed on-demand.

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CIO

JUNE 27, 2023

Equally, if not more important, is the need for enhanced data storage and management to handle new applications. These applications require faster parallel processing of data in diverse formats. In his keynote speech, he noted, “We believe that data storage will undergo major changes as digital transformation gathers pace.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Chinese competitor Huawei also has invested $400 million in cloud infrastructure for its services in Saudi Arabia. If I go back three years, there was limited cloud adoption in Arab states,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

One company that needs to keep data on a tight leash is Petco, which is a market leader in pet care and wellness products. Most of Petco’s core business systems run on four InfiniBox® storage systems in multiple data centers. virtualized systems, databases, business workloads, etc) and only pay for storage as needed.

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Case Study Storage Study Enterprise 145

CIO

AUGUST 17, 2022

Being on the forefront of enterprise storage in the Fortune 500 market, Infinidat has broad visibility across the market trends that are driving changes CIOs cannot ignore. Trend #1: Critical nature of data and cyber resilience in the face of increasing cyberattacks. This is a multi-faceted trend to keep front and center.

Storage 167

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

But as these customers grow in size and complexity — and as you rope in larger organizations — scaling your infrastructure for the enterprise becomes critical for success. Below are four tips on how to advance your company’s infrastructure to support and grow with your largest customers. uptime or higher.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The new price rise will affect infrastructure-as-a-service ( IaaS ) and platform-as-a-service ( PaaS ) offerings, the company said in a GitHub post. However, with the exception of Cloud Object Storage costs, the prices for IaaS offerings will increase only for international data centers while they remain constant for US customers.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With businesses planning and budgeting for their Information Technology (IT) needs for 2021, deciding on whether to build or expand their own data centers may come into play. There are significant expenses associated with a data center facility, which we’ll discuss below. What Is a Colocation Data Center?

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CIO

JULY 12, 2022

Enterprises today require the robust networks and infrastructure required to effectively manage and protect an ever-increasing volume of data. Notably, the company offers cloud solutions with built-in security and compliance to the hypervisor for the peace of mind that results when infrastructure is audit-ready at all times.

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Data Center Enterprise Cloud Artificial Inteligence 148

CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Although organizations have embraced microservices-based applications, IT leaders continue to grapple with the need to unify and gain efficiencies in their infrastructure and operations across both traditional and modern application architectures. Ready to take your infrastructure to the next level?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It’s the team’s networking and storage knowledge and seeing how that industry built its hardware that now informs how NeuReality is thinking about building its own AI platform. “We kind of combined a lot of techniques that we brought from the storage and networking world,” Tanach explained.

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Hardware Data Center Architecture Storage 250

CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

VMwares virtualization suite before the Broadcom acquisition included not only the vSphere cloud-based server virtualization platform, but also administration tools and several other options, including software-defined storage, disaster recovery, and network security. Broadcoms infrastructure software revenue grew 41% to $5.8

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 2, 2025

However, the real breakthrough is in the convergence of technologies that are coming together to supercharge 5G business transformation across our most critical infrastructure, industrial businesses and governments. This includes 5G coming of age at the same time as AI, bringing together lightning fast connectivity with intelligence.

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Infinidat

MARCH 10, 2021

Re-Thinking the Storage Infrastructure for Business Intelligence. Guest Blogger: Eric Burgener, Research Vice President, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies, IDC. As a system architect, how would you design a storage infrastructure to meet these requirements in a single storage platform?

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Dell EMC

MAY 5, 2020

Today we announced Dell EMC PowerStore, an innovative modern infrastructure platform engineered with data-centric design, intelligent automation and adaptable architecture – all to address challenges in the data era. In a recent IDC study analyzing the. READ MORE.

Storage 127

Storage Technology Data Center Study 127

CIO

JULY 22, 2024

IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations. IT execs now have more options beyond their own data centers and private clouds, namely as-a-service (aaS).

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

Unlike on-premises data centers, where procuring and deploying servers is a longer and more thought-out process, hyperscalers provide near-instant deployment options, giving IT organizations the ability to spin up workloads at any time as needed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In June, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 data centers and brought down thousands of websites for over an hour, for instance. Dmitry Galperin, GP at Runa Capital, said in a statement: “The web stack is evolving and so should the infrastructure.

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Load Balancer Development Data Center Enterprise 246

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It also plans to expand its data center footprint globally to at least 10 new regions in 2022 to improve latency, launching for the first time in both APAC and EMEA. Once a customer chooses what service to deploy, Render helps them manage the process and infrastructure. . ”

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Infinidat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Top Storage Trends for 2022. As 2021 heads to the finish line, we look at the storage market to see an exciting 2022 right around the corner. Understanding these enterprise storage trends will give you an advantage and help you formulate your strategic IT plan going forward. Adriana Andronescu. Thu, 12/16/2021 - 04:00.

Storage 107

Storage Trends Data Center Systems Review 107

CIO

AUGUST 4, 2022

This inflection point related to the increasing amount of time needed for AI model training — as well as increasing costs around data gravity and compute cycles — spurs many companies to adopt a hybridized approach and move their AI projects from the cloud back to an on-premises infrastructure or one that’s colocated with their data lake.

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