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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

GeekWire

Helion co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Pihl (left) with founder and CEO David Kirtley at their facility in Redmond, Wash. Industry : Cloud data storage. CEO : Bill Richter , former president of Isilon storage division at EMC. Valuation : $3.96 billion (as of Sept. GeekWire 200 rank : No.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

On-prem infrastructure will grow cold — with the exception of storage, Nardecchia says. Some storage will likely stay on-prem while more is pushed into the public cloud, he says. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6% The unified communications market’s meager 1.6% in 2023, the firm says.

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Si può tornare indietro dal cloud? Ecco che cosa ne pensano i CIO italiani

CIO Business Intelligence

Nel 2019 ho valutato un importante progetto cloud per l’azienda in cui lavoravo in quel momento, e che aveva l’esigenza di cambiare il data center e avere più storage. Di cloud exit, però, poco si parla, al contrario di quanto sta accadendo, invece, negli Stati Uniti, dove si registrano alcuni casi di dietro front.

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