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Advantages and Disadvantages of Virtual Machine

The Crazy Programmer

The virtual machine is the type of computer that does not require the physical hardware components or requires very little. Nowadays, virtual machines or VMs have become essential assets and tools to be used in business-oriented computing. What is Virtual Machine? Advantages of Virtual Machine. Image Source.

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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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Mainframe data: hybrid cloud object store vs. tape

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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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As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform

TechCrunch

The property industry now requires high-quality photographs, floor plans and virtual tours, so the industry for software providers in the space is booming. The whole area was accelerated during the pandemic, when many property viewings migrated from physical to virtual, and this trend has continued to tick upward.

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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. But rapid hardware advances may mean CIOs need to budget for much shorter hardware refresh cycles in future to stay up to date.

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Should finance organizations bank on Generative AI?

CIO

A lesser-known challenge is the need for the right storage infrastructure, a must-have enabler. To effectively deploy generative AI (and AI), organizations must adopt new storage capabilities that are different than the status quo. With the right storage, organizations can accelerate generative AI (discussed in more detail here ).

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Finally leverage edge by adopting an as-a-service approach

CIO

However, many organizations simply don’t have the resources or the expertise to build or manage the complex distributed systems required for effective edge computing delivery, a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data.