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Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers

TechCrunch

Data centers with servers attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) can suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute. Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of data transfers, Lightbits Labs CEO Eran Kirzner explains to TechCrunch. ” Image Credits: Lightbits Labs. .”

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Locad lands Series A to expand its “logistics engine” across Southeast Asia and Australia

TechCrunch

Locad can handle almost every part of the delivery process, from inventory storage and packing to shipping and tracking. Robertz said helping Zalora scale up its logistics infrastructure “planted the seed of how a cloud approach to supply chain, with a scalable logistics infrastructure as a service, would be a better way.”

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Besides surgery, the hospital is also investing in robotics for the transportation and delivery of medications. Massive robots are being used in pharmacies to automate processes such as pulling pills, ointments, and creams, putting them into packs, sealing them, and transporting them to floors, he says.

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The 5G Requirement for Data Storage

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

While many applications like smart homes will be connected to the cloud, other applications that require real-time analysis and control of IoT devices will generate huge amounts of data that will be too large to transport, store, and analyze in the cloud in time to be useful.

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Enterprise Storage Arrays and NVMe

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

The hot topic in storage today is NVMe, an open standards protocol for digital communications between servers and non-volatile memory storage. NVMe was designed for flash and other non-volatile storage devices that may be in our future. However, PCIe has limited scalability.

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Leveraging Veeam Cloud Tier Storage for Backup and Replication

Megaport

A major feature that many organisations have been anticipating is Veeam Cloud Tier – a long-term data retention solution that supports cloud storage such as Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage. Our diagram shows the difference between the old manual process and the new Veeam Cloud Tier solution. 5% daily change rate/growth rate.

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Unlocking the Power of AI with a Real-Time Data Strategy

CIO

Supply chain With companies trying to stay lean with just-in-time practices, it’s important to understand real-time market conditions, delays in transportation, and raw supply delays, and adjust for them as the conditions are unfolding. The storage for these features is referred to as a feature store.