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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.

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MetalSoft aims to help manage server infrastructure through automation

TechCrunch

Unfortunately for execs, at the same time recruiting is posing a major challenge, IT infrastructure is becoming more costly to maintain. MetalSoft allows companies to automate the orchestration of hardware, including switches, servers and storage, making them available to users that can be consumed on-demand.

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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). Wasabi, which doesn’t charge fees for egress or API requests, claims its storage fees work out to one-fifth of the cost of Amazon S3’s.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. Just as a balanced diet fortifies the body, a robust and modern IT infrastructure lays the groundwork for AI and other advanced technologies to flourish.”

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Why Purpose-Built Infrastructure is the Best Option for Scaling AI Model Development

CIO

This inflection point related to the increasing amount of time needed for AI model training — as well as increasing costs around data gravity and compute cycles — spurs many companies to adopt a hybridized approach and move their AI projects from the cloud back to an on-premises infrastructure or one that’s colocated with their data lake.

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Mainframe data: hybrid cloud object store vs. tape

CIO

Meanwhile, enterprises are rapidly moving away from tape and other on-premises storage in favor of cloud object stores. Cost optimization: Tape-based infrastructure and VTL have heavy capital and operational costs for storage space, maintenance, and hardware.

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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. “The business has just been exploding.

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