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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

According to an IDC survey commissioned by Seagate, organizations collect only 56% of the data available throughout their lines of business, and out of that 56%, they only use 57%. That’s why Uri Beitler launched Pliops , a startup developing what he calls “data processors” for enterprise and cloud data centers.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2024

As enterprises begin to deploy and use AI, many realize they’ll need access to massive computing power and fast networking capabilities, but storage needs may be overlooked. In that case, Duos needs super-fast storage that works alongside its AI computing units. “If If you have a broken wheel, you want to know right now,” he says. “We

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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. This is prompting the CIO shift to hybrid and multicloud.

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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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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

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

AUGUST 26, 2024

In a 2023 survey by Enterprise Strategy Group , IT professionals identified their top application deployment issues: 81% face challenges with data and application mobility across on-premises data centers, public clouds, and edge. 82% have difficulty sizing workloads for the optimal on- or off-premises environment.

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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

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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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Data needs to be stored somewhere. However, data storage costs keep growing, and the data people keep producing and consuming can’t keep up with the available storage. According to Internet Data Center (IDC) , global data is projected to increase to 175 zettabytes in 2025, up from 33 zettabytes in 2018.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This enables use cases such as near real-time disaster recovery over photonics-based links in industries like banking and finance, vehicle-to-vehicle communication in an autonomous vehicle scenario, and real-time edge-to-data center connections for robotics applications in factories, or at remote sites in mining or oil and gas industries.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

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. Moving applications between data center, edge, and cloud environments is no simple task.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

LyteLoop’s new funding will provide it with enough runway to achieve its next major milestone: putting three prototype satellites equipped with its novel data storage technology into orbit within the next three years. Security, for instance, gets a big boost from LyteLoop’s storage paradigm.

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David Heinemeier Hansson

MARCH 26, 2025

We've already racked the replacement from Pure Storage in our two primary data centers. It's a gorgeous rack full of blazing-fast NVMe storage modules. million for the Pure Storage hardware, and a bit less than a million over five years for warranty and support. But so are the savings.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In addition to Dell Technologies’ compute, storage, client device, software, and service capabilities, NVIDIA’s advanced AI infrastructure and software suite can help organizations bolster their AI-powered use cases, with these powered by a high-speed networking fabric.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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. “They also know that the attack surface is increasing and that they need help protecting core systems.

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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. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3

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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.

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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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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

(tied) Crusoe Energy Systems , $500M, energy: Back in 2022, the Denver-based company was helping power Bitcoin mining by harnessing natural gas that is typically burned during oil extraction and putting it toward powering the data centers needed for mining — raising a $350 million Series C equity round led by G2 Venture Partners , at $1.75

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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

JULY 12, 2022

Flexential’s 40 state-of-the-art data centers in North America – located in metropolitan areas across the country to ensure short hops and low latency – are connected by a 100 Gbps network backbone that is easily upgradable to 400 Gbps for those customers that require ultra-high speeds.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

Cloud-based workloads can burst as needed, because IT can easily add more compute and storage capacity on-demand to handle spikes in usage, such as during tax season for an accounting firm or on Black Friday for an e-commerce site. Retain workloads in the data center, and leverage the cloud to manage bursts when more capacity is needed.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On the IaaS offerings front, the price hikes will be applied to bare metal servers, virtual server instances, file and block storage, and networking infrastructure for both classic and virtual private cloud ( VPC ) offerings, the company said.

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2025

. > allowfullscreen> When it comes to looking at new workloads and applications, be it AI or modern cloud-workloads, hyper-converged infrastructure, with embedded all-flash storage arrays, provides organizations with a process to rapidly deliver on the application demands of the business.

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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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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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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

People can pay a monthly subscription fee to access a full-fledged computer in a data center near them. Currently, subscribers get the equivalent of an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for $29.99 OVHcloud founder Octave Klaba also owns a cloud storage service called hubiC. per month, or €29.99

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

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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CIO

MARCH 31, 2025

high-performance computing GPU), data centers, and energy. Talent shortages AI development requires specialized knowledge in machine learning, data science, and engineering. The user has full control of the input, output and the data that the model will train on.

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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.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2025

More organizations are coming to the harsh realization that their networks are not up to the task in the new era of data-intensive AI workloads that require not only high performance and low latency networks but also significantly greater compute, storage, and data protection resources, says Sieracki.

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an idea we’re proud to support, as it aligns with our own Data Center of the Future initiative. We believe investing in sustainable data center technologies isn’t just the right thing to do for the future of our planet; it can also be a key source of business value for our customers today.

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