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Disaster recovery can be an effective way to ease into the cloud

TechCrunch

Operating in the cloud is soon going to be a reality for many businesses whether they like it or not. Points of contention with this shift often arise from unfamiliarity and discomfort with cloud operations. However, cloud migrations don’t have to be a full lift and shift. Steps to start your DRaaS journey to the cloud.

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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 The rest is stored in the cloud (29%), on the edge (19%) and a variety of other locations (4%). But even though the largest share of data is still in the data center, the momentum is clearly with the cloud and the edge. ZB by 2026.

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

TechCrunch

The cloud services sector is still dominated by Amazon and the other so-called “hyperscalers” — e.g. the Microsoft Azures, Google Cloud Platforms and IBM Clouds of the world. ” 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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Enterprise Storage Solution Provider of Choice: The Case Studies

CIO

Most of Petco’s core business systems run on four InfiniBox® storage systems in multiple data centers. For the evolution of its enterprise storage infrastructure, Petco had stringent requirements to significantly improve speed, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Infinidat rose to the challenge.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.

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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience

CIO

After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. It can also improve business continuity and disaster recovery and help avoid vendor lock-in.

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

CIO

Storage has emerged in 2022 as a strategic asset that the C-suite, not just the CIO, can no longer overlook. Enterprise storage can be used to improve your company’s cybersecurity, accelerate digital transformation, and reduce costs, while improving application and workload service levels. What should you do?

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