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Decentralized storage: Tailwinds and open questions

TechCrunch

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Talking to Storj about its new version made me curious about decentralized storage. While this preoccupation reignited the bare metal debate , it also creates tailwinds for another option: decentralized storage. Want it in your inbox every Saturday?

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

TechCrunch

According to Synergy Group , an IT market research firm, Amazon, Microsoft and Google together held a 65% share of the global cloud services market as of Q2, up 61% year-over-year. 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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Storage: The unsung hero of AI deployments

CIO

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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Individual Channel Partner Awards: Delivering Big on Enterprise Storage Solutions and Customer-Centric Excellence

Infinidat

Individual Channel Partner Awards: Delivering Big on Enterprise Storage Solutions and Customer-Centric Excellence Adriana Andronescu Wed, 04/09/2025 - 08:03 The channel is important to Infinidat, and the partners who are out there every day working hard in the trenches to pursue new customer opportunities are the lifeblood of our channel business.

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Lucidity keeps cloud block storage neat, tidy and cost-efficient

TechCrunch

Cloud storage is expensive ( especially in this economy ), but many companies often over-provision, cutting their full return on investment. Lucidity was created to help them manage block storage more efficiently with a set of automated tools. The startup announced today that is has raised $5.3 million in seed funding.

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Energy Dome uses CO2 for long-term power storage for solar energy

TechCrunch

Longer-term energy storage is a drag, and a lot of battery tech has been focusing on “how quickly can we charge these batteries so I can drive my EV for another couple of hundred miles.” It points out that this is a fast-growing market segment, not well served by existing battery technologies.

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New hands-on lab makes it easy to explore cloud configurations and workload migrations

CIO

The follow-on modules walk you through everything from using Terraform, to migrating workloads with HCX, to external storage options, configuring backup, and using other Google Cloud services. The lab modules start with deploying your first private cloud, as well as configuring the initial VMware Engine networking.