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Spend Smarter, Not More: A Guide to AWS Storage Cost Optimization

Xebia

Introduction With an ever-expanding digital universe, data storage has become a crucial aspect of every organization’s IT strategy. S3 Storage Undoubtedly, anyone who uses AWS will inevitably encounter S3, one of the platform’s most popular storage services. Storage Class Designed For Retrieval Change Min.

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Leading IT Analyst Firm GigaOm Recognizes Infinidat as the Industry Leader in Ransomware Protection for Block Storage

CIO

This fact puts primary storage in the spotlight for every CIO to see, and it highlights how important ransomware protection is in an enterprise storage solution. When GigaOm released their “GigaOm Sonar Report for Block-based Primary Storage Ransomware Protection” recently, a clear leader emerged.

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Re-Tooling Your Way to a More Efficient Enterprise

CIO

To create a more efficient and streamlined enterprise, businesses often find themselves tempted to bring in brand new systems that promise major improvements over the status quo. This blog will examine how enterprises can take stock of their systems, and offer best practices for IT teams with small budgets looking to re-tool.

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Infinidat and Kyndryl Deliver Modern Data Protection, Cyber Resiliency, and Primary Storage for a Fortune Global 500 Enterprise

Infinidat

On top of all that, the enterprise aimed to improve their primary storage to run a variety of applications and workloads. This was not unlike many other Fortune Global 500 enterprises with similar challenges. It was a no-brainer for the global enterprise to move to the InfiniGuard platform after seeing it in action.

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

TechCrunch

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). ” Friend and Flowers joined forces in 2015 to start Wasabi, when Friend was still the CEO of cloud backup company Carbonite. .

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Mainframe data: hybrid cloud object store vs. tape

CIO

In 2019, half of enterprises surveyed said their number of mainframe workloads had grown; in 2023, 62% said the same 1. Meanwhile, enterprises are rapidly moving away from tape and other on-premises storage in favor of cloud object stores. Simplification of the environment: Legacy storage systems are complex and often siloed.

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Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth

CIO

IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will be 12.8 A slight majority of data already lives outside of the data center, and the day is not long off when it won’t even store the largest share of enterprise information. Data volumes continue to grow exponentially, and there’s no end in sight. ZB by 2026.