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Price shock: IBM to increase cloud costs by up to 26% from 2024

CIO

IBM is all set to increase its cloud services costs by up to 26% from January 2024. IBM PaaS services — slated for a 3% price hike globally — include IBM’s Kubernetes Services, RedHat OpenShift, all security services, and all cloud database offerings including Message Hub, Cloudant, and SQL query services. Cloud Computing, IBM

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Mainframe data: hybrid cloud object store vs. tape

CIO

But while mainframes have advanced, most organizations are still storing their mainframe data in tape or virtual tape libraries (VTL). Meanwhile, enterprises are rapidly moving away from tape and other on-premises storage in favor of cloud object stores.

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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. Wasabi storage starts at $5.99 Wasabi just landed $68 million to upend cloud storage. per terabyte per month.

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Why Object Storage is Best for Cloud-Native Apps

DevOps.com

A crucial question that plagues cloud application developers is, “What kind of storage should we use for our app?” Unlike other choices like compute runtimes—Lambda/serverless, containers or virtual machines—data storage choice is highly sticky and makes future application improvements and migrations much harder.

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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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Google opens second cloud region in Germany

CIO

Google has opened a second cloud region in Germany as part of its plan to invest $1.85 Other Google Cloud regions in Europe include locations such as Milan, Paris, Zurich, Warsaw, Madrid, Turin, Belgium, Finland, The Netherlands, and London. AWS, too, has been expanding its global cloud footprint.

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