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Pacific Northwest National Lab gets green light to design and build a $75M grid storage facility

GeekWire

This is an early, conceptual rendering of what the Grid Storage Launchpad facility could look like on the PNNL campus in Richland, Wash. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will begin designing and building a $75 million facility in Eastern Washington that will help develop massive batteries for grid energy storage.

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Data centers in space

CIO Business Intelligence

Using a satellite networking system, data would be collected from Earth, then sent to space for processing and storage. Well, it’s very real, with trials and demonstrations underway this year and a launch planned for 2025. Imagine a world in which data centers were deployed in space. Why put data centers in space?

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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

CIO Business Intelligence

By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Here are four steps to getting the most out of cloud computing resources in an economical manner.

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Lumen Orbit emerges from stealth and raises $2.4M to put data centers in space

GeekWire

The first satellite would be a 60-kilogram (132-pound) demonstrator that’s due for launch in May 2025 as a rideshare payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. ” “At the end of 2025 we will launch a full-scale prototype,” Johnston said. He said the $2.4

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The Top Cloud Security Threat Comes from Within

CIO Business Intelligence

In fact, Gartner estimates 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault—at least through 2025. Storage misconfiguration Misconfiguration opportunities abound when it comes to cloud storage. Simple oversights such as not ticking a box can have major repercussions. Ensure all systems have default credentials.

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Want AI? Here’s how to get your data and infrastructure AI-ready

CIO Business Intelligence

Traditionally, data management and the core underlying infrastructure, including storage and compute, have been viewed as separate IT initiatives. Beyond the traditional considerations of speeds and feeds, forward-thinking CIOs must ensure their compute and storage are adaptable.

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Leveraging Content Management Software to Facilitate a Cloud-First Approach

CIO Business Intelligence

Statista estimates that global investment in digital transformation is expected to increase significantly between 2022 and 2025, from $1.8 However, cloud applications are less secure than mainframe environments and increase vulnerabilities to data breaches. trillion to $2.8

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