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Proton Drive encrypted cloud storage service arrives on Mac

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Swiss privacy-focused company Proton has launched its end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) cloud storage service for Mac users, four months after it landed on Windows.

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

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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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Decentralized storage: Tailwinds and open questions

TechCrunch

Talking to Storj about its new version made me curious about decentralized storage. On the other, it also seems at odds with other trends, such as sovereign clouds. Anna Slashing cloud bills The volume of data generated by companies seems to be ever-increasing, but concerns about cloud costs are rising, too.

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iCloud+ adds a 6TB and 12TB storage plan

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Slipped at the end of its announcements for a new line of iPhones, Apple revealed two new tiers for iCloud+, its cloud storage subscription. Now subscribers can store 6 terabytes or 12 terabytes of data with these new subscription tiers.

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CIOs need a universal storage layer to manage multicloud complexities…here’s why.

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In most IT landscapes today, diverse storage and technology infrastructures hinder the efficient conversion and use of data and applications across varied standards and locations. However siloed operations with multiple management interfaces and unique services across different clouds can drive up costs, reduce agility, and increase risk.

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Accelerating generative AI requires the right storage

CIO

In generative AI, data is the fuel, storage is the fuel tank and compute is the engine. All this data means that organizations adopting generative AI face a potential, last-mile bottleneck, and that is storage. Novel approaches to storage are needed because generative AI’s requirements are vastly different.