Yearly Archives - 2017

Carbonite founders’ new startup aims directly at Amazon Web Services

Nearly a year after Carbonite Inc. co-founders David Friend and Jeffrey Flowers first raised money for a stealthy new cloud storage startup called BlueArchive Inc., the duo is publicly launching their company with a new name and an ambitious plan to undercut the fastest-growing segment of Amazon.com Inc.'s business. Now called Wasabi, the startup is offering to store large amounts of data at a fraction the price of Amazon Web Services' S3 offering — the flagship product of a cloud computing...
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How to size up a new cloud service like low-priced Wasabi

Saving money may be a good enough reason to try a brand-new cloud storage service -- if it can deliver on its promises. That's the equation some enterprises may use when they look at Wasabi Technologies, an object storage startup that says it offers six times the performance of Amazon's S3 service at one-fifth the price. The service is available globally on Wednesday. Read more >>
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