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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

CIO

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 Indeed, the kingdom is positioning itself as a global leader in digital technologies ahead of its hosting of the World Expo 2030 in Riyadh.

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Is AWS Leading Hybrid IT Storage?

The CTO Advisor

Some CTOs claim the march to the public cloud and cloud-native technologies is a forgone conclusion. However, the cloud operating model is … The post Is AWS Leading Hybrid IT Storage? I’ve had robust conversations with IT vendors and customers about the reality of modern enterprise IT operating models.

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Canadian CIOs discuss driving a successful hybrid cloud roadmap

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A group of senior technology leaders gathered in Toronto to share and discuss how they are managing cloud services. They agreed that this helps support investment in technology upgrades. Most attendees agreed that organizations should have a life cycle management plan to better to map out costs of replacing or upgrading technology.

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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

This strategy alone — achieved with the DIY approach — was responsible for saving $300,000 when his team dug into expenses surrounding Google Cloud Platform log storage, resulting in his team moving the logs to a lower tier of cloud storage and rightsizing the data they retain to adhere to retention requirements.

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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)

CIO

Because data and digital technology have become so integral into any enterprise’s lifeblood, senior leadership teams must differentiate between the strategic aspects of IT and the tactical parts of IT cost centers. Storage has emerged in 2022 as a strategic asset that the C-suite, not just the CIO, can no longer overlook.

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AWS S3 Integration with Snowflake

Perficient

These days, most businesses use cloud storage to store data that is recoverable, quickly available, and safe. Users always want upgrades and the most recent technology to apply to their applications. It lets you move data to an offsite storage system and retrieve it whenever you need to.

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Wasabi scores $112M Series C on $700M valuation to take on cloud storage hyperscalers

TechCrunch

Taking on Amazon S3 in the cloud storage game would seem to be a fool-hearty proposition, but Wasabi has found a way to build storage cheaply and pass the savings onto customers. With a $50B run rate in reach, can anyone stop AWS? Wasabi storage starts at $5.99 Wasabi just landed $68 million to upend cloud storage.

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