TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its an offshoot of enterprise architecture that comprises the models, policies, rules, and standards that govern the collection, storage, arrangement, integration, and use of data in organizations. It includes data collection, refinement, storage, analysis, and delivery. Cloud storage. Cloud computing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ro , a direct-to-consumer health company valued by its investors at $5 billion, is nearing a deal to acquire at-home sperm storage upstart Dadi, per multiple sources familiar with the unicorn’s business. That said, two of Ro’s latest acquisitions seem to mesh well with Dadi when it comes to strategy.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

New product bundling and pricing, reseller program adjustments, divestments, and unforeseen changes are driving CIOs and IT providers to reassess their strategies and technologies. Many customers remain wary, prompting IT leaders to explore alternatives and adjust their strategies regarding VMware products.

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2025

Spending on compute and storage infrastructure for cloud deployments has surged to unprecedented heights, with 115.3% Globally, service providers are expected to account for the lions share of compute and storage investments in 2024, spending $183.1 year-over-year increase in the third quarter of 2024. billion, according to the report.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

Amid that growth, a few key trends surfaced to impact CIOs’ cloud strategies, continuing to today: More flexible consumption models To increase spend within their ecosystems, hyperscalers marketed more flexible consumption programs to enable customers to increase their commitments, while mitigating consumption risk.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The power of modern data management Modern data management integrates the technologies, governance frameworks, and business processes needed to ensure the safety and security of data from collection to storage and analysis. It’s impossible,” says Shadi Shahin, Vice President of Product Strategy at SAS.

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CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The data preparation process should take place alongside a long-term strategy built around GenAI use cases, such as content creation, digital assistants, and code generation. Computational requirements, such as the type of GenAI models, number of users, and data storage capacity, will affect this choice.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With the right AI investments marking the difference between laggards and innovative companies, deploying AI at scale has become an essential strategy in today’s business landscape. Together with NVIDIA, the solution offers server, storage, networking, workstation, services and validated solutions that can drive AI innovation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The data is spread out across your different storage systems, and you don’t know what is where. Maximizing GPU use is critical for cost-effective AI operations, and the ability to achieve it requires improved storage throughput for both read and write operations. Planned innovations: Disaggregated storage architecture.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The case for composable ERP strategies Composable ERP strategy focuses on flexibility and modularity, allowing telecoms to integrate existing systems with cloud-based services and other modern technologies. Composable ERP enables better management of compute, storage, networking, and other limited resources.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. However, as long as you’re truly faster, cheaper and simpler, patience and strategy can propel you to where you want to be. David Friend. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The ease of access, while empowering, can lead to usage patterns that inadvertently inflate costsespecially when organizations lack a clear strategy for tracking and managing resource consumption. Different priorities can significantly influence cost management strategies. The real challenge lies in optimizing inefficiencies.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Forrester also recently predicted that 2025 would see a shift in AI strategies , away from experimentation and toward near-term bottom-line gains. The company also plans to increase spending on cybersecurity tools and personnel, he adds, and it will focus more resources on advanced analytics, data management, and storage solutions.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Major unanticipated increases in cloud spending, driven largely by increased use, arent spurring CIOs to rethink IT strategies beyond tactical shifts in how they attempt to rein in costs in the cloud. Repatriation , however, doesnt seem to be a part of that work.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The ease of access, while empowering, can lead to usage patterns that inadvertently inflate costsespecially when organizations lack a clear strategy for tracking and managing resource consumption. Different priorities can significantly influence cost management strategies. The real challenge lies in optimizing inefficiencies.

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Data Storage Culture Resources 130

CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

C R Srinivasan, EVP of cloud and cybersecurity services and chief digital officer at Tata Communications, sees many enterprises “getting more nuanced” with their cloud use and strategies in an effort to balance performance, costs, and security. “As Cloud Computing, Data Center, Edge Computing, Hybrid Cloud, IT Strategy, Multi Cloud

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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

Moreover, these repatriations show how CIOs have a shrewder, more fluid cloud strategy today to ensure they don’t settle for less than what they want. Service-based consumption of compute/storage resources on-premises is still a new concept for enterprises, but awareness is growing. That 80% is consistent with past survey findings.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yet, controlling cloud costs remains the top challenge IT leaders face in making the most of their cloud strategies, with about one third — 35% — of respondents citing these expenses as the No. After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.”

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

For instance, IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will grow to 12.8 Cybersecurity strategies need to evolve from data protection to a more holistic business continuity approach. … This requires a multifaceted approach that combines advanced technologies and proactive strategies. ZB by 2026. To watch 12.8

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They should also look for exit strategies for other market-dominant IT products they use, given that Broadcom has seen early success with VMware, he says. Theyre going to have to get completely off Broadcom. Still, Warrilow recommends that CIOs running VMware consider alternatives over the long term.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It’s critical to understand the ramifications of true-ups and true-downs as well as other cost measures like storage or API usage because these can unpredictably drive-up SaaS expenses. Understanding vendor-specific terminology, pricing structures, and the nuances of contract administration are the first steps in this process.

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CIO

JULY 1, 2024

Many small business leaders are still trying to build out an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to drive efficiencies, supercharge automation and spark creative productivity among their people. Content-based and storage limitations apply. Analysts expect small businesses to quickly grasp the nettle. Requires Microsoft account.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This article was co-authored by Duke Dyksterhouse , an Associate at Metis Strategy. Some are our clients—and more of them are asking our help with their data strategy. Data & Analytics is delivering on its promise. Often their ask is a thinly veiled admission of overwhelm. We discourage that thinking. So, they built a data-lake.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

However, each cloud provider offers distinct advantages for AI workloads, making a multi-cloud strategy vital. NetApps first-party, cloud-native storage solutions enable our customers to quickly benefit from these AI investments. Whether its a managed process like an exit strategy or an unexpected event like a cyber-attack.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Abhas Ricky, chief strategy officer of Cloudera, recently noted on LinkedIn the cost challenges involved in managing AI agents. Jim Liddle, chief innovation officer for AI and data strategy at hybrid-cloud storage company Nasuni, questions the likelihood of large hyperscalers offering management services for all agents.

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CIO

JULY 6, 2023

While Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM have already released their generative AI offerings, rival Oracle has so far been largely quiet about its own strategy. Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Applications, IT Strategy Instead of launching a competing offering in a rush, the company is quietly preparing a three-tier approach.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

The networking, compute, and storage needs not to mention power and cooling are significant, and market pressures require the assembly to happen quickly. Infrastructure challenges in the AI era Its difficult to build the level of infrastructure on-premises that AI requires. AI workloads demand flexibility and the ability to scale rapidly.

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CIO

JUNE 9, 2023

Such is the case with a data management strategy. Simply put, data management is a sophisticated process involving various stages, such as data storage, processing, analysis, and visualization. For example, smart hospitals employ effective data management strategies. The important point is to start and keep moving.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Besides the frustration and stress the problem of file storage and sharing caused, not being able to locate the correct assets also led to errors, which in turn led to lots of money lost, according to Ko. “We Playbook offers 4TB of free storage, which Ko says is 266 times the free version of Google Storage and 2,000 times that of Dropbox.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Consolidating data and improving accessibility through tenanted access controls can typically deliver a 25-30% reduction in data storage expenses while driving more informed decisions. Features such as synthetic data creation can further enhance your data strategy. Claims processing can be reduced from 35-40 days to about a week.

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CIO

AUGUST 7, 2024

Uscita dal cloud: una pratica coerente che nasce da preoccupazioni comuni Secondo il rapporto di IDC del giugno 2024 dal titolo: “ Assessing the Scale of Workload Repatriation” [in inglese] , circa l’80% degli intervistati “prevede di vedere un certo livello di abbandono delle risorse di calcolo e di storage nei prossimi 12 mesi”.

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Project by project, the CIO is expected to bring hard-hitting, “breakthrough” business strategies to the table that digitalization can address. This includes describing in straightforward language the infrastructure — network, storage, processing, and so on — that supports the project, and why infrastructure investments are needed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I still have storage crates in my kitchen from Webvan, a grocery delivery contender that flamed out so famously, MBA candidates now study it in business school. TechCrunch roundup: Dotcom crash history lessons, post-M&A strategies, climate tech heats up by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

6 strategies for running more effective startup board meetings. However, the community recently changed the paradigm and brought features such as StatefulSets and Storage Classes, which make using data on Kubernetes possible. What the industry generally calls storage “profiles” is termed Storage Classes in Kubernetes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But over time, the fintech startup has evolved its model – mostly fueled by demand – and is now making a push into corporate money storage. Then last November, Jiko revealed it was pivoting from that consumer-focused model and “accelerating its business-to-business strategy,” as reported by Banking Dive.

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