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A Comparison of the VMware Cloud Solutions

The CTO Advisor

It gets the entire enterprise IT industry focused on my favorite topic, Hybrid-infrastructure. Hybrid-infrastructure is an operating model vs. a physical location. VMware cloud … The post A Comparison of the VMware Cloud Solutions appeared first on The CTO Advisor.

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Alchemy raises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the ‘AWS for blockchain’

TechCrunch

TechCrunch talked with Alchemy co-founders Nikil Viswanathan (CEO) and Joe Lau (CTO) about the raise and their passion for the startup’s mission was clear. Its developer platform aims to remove the complexity and costs of building infrastructure while improving applications through “necessary” developer tools. While in Web 2.0,

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

GrowthBook says it solves this by using a company’s existing data infrastructure and business metrics. Founders: Co-founders Jeremy Dorn and Graham McNicoll both used to work at Education.com as chief architect and CTO respectively. After Education.com ’s exit in 2019, the two of them began working on GrowthBook. Founded: 2021.

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

TechCrunch

Startups building financial infrastructure got noticed. Just as Paystack and Flutterwave built payment infrastructure for thousands of African businesses, these fintech startups are trying to make their mark in the sweet spots of credit and banking. . million; Nigerian automotive tech startup Autochek Africa , which raised $3.4

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DataRobot is Acquiring Algorithmia, Enhancing Leading MLOps Infrastructure to Get Models to Production Fast, with Optimized GPU Workloads at Scale

DataRobot

Algorithmia’s CTO, Kenny Daniel, recently said, “GPUs don’t play nicely with certain containerized workloads, which are extremely ubiquitous in the industry” and that “solving the problems of running containerized ML workloads in any environment is the short version of the technical problem that Algorithmia solves.” Request a Demo.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO

The “unanticipated” costs of not doing the prep work are legion: egress charges, (semi-) failed moves, moving the wrong things/combinations at the wrong times, failure to capture service costs pre-move for comparison, and so many more. If #CIO & #CTO took cloud planning as serious as Disney tourists, there’d be less #cloud disasters.

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How Coupang is “out-Amazoning even Amazon,” according to Goodwater Capital

TechCrunch

Coupang had to build its own infrastructure and now has 100 fulfillment and logistics centers in 30 cities and 15,000 delivery drivers. In order to catch up, Kim told TechCrunch in an email that “a competitor would need to figure out a way to invest billions into logistical and technical infrastructure to try to compete with Coupang.