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Wasabi Technologies Earns High Scores on CRN’s 2021 Annual Report Card

Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, is recognizing it as a winner in the Cloud Storage category of the 2021 CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Awards. This award celebrates the company’s success and efforts in earning high solution provider satisfaction with the products and services it provides to its channel partners. Read more >>
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A Second-Generation of Cloud-Based Video Surveillance Services

The popularity of cloud-based video surveillance services proves the value propositions of these services. Over the past years, however, the industry has experienced painful drawbacks from using this first generation of services. The most concerning drawback is cybersecurity and the potential for compromised video. To provide cloud cybersecurity, we need to start from the user of the services. To protect against ransomware, the cloud storage systems must have adequate “redundancy and immutability,” these features are already available from some cloud...
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David Friend of Wasabi Technologies Recognized on CRN’s 2021 Top 100 Executives List fo

Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Wasabi CEO David Friend to its 2021 Top 100 Executives list for the second consecutive year. This annual list honors the passionate and hard-working technology executives who are supporting, growing, and redefining the IT channel. Read more >>
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Wasabi Expands Global Presence, Announces APAC Headquarters in Japan

Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today announced the expansion of its Asia-Pacific presence with the opening of its Japanese headquarters. The headquarters will serve as a base for a variety of countries in the region including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. In tandem with the new headquarters, Wasabi has appointed Kaz Kuroda Vice President of Asia-Pacific and Managing Director of Japan to lead the office. Read more >>
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Wasabi Raises Additional $25M in Funding, Led by Prosperity7 Ventures, and Extends Series C to $137M in Financing

Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company, today announced $25 million in additional funding led by Prosperity7 Ventures, the diversified growth fund of Aramco Ventures. Western Digital Capital, the investment arm of storage device manufacturer Western Digital, also participated in the round. This round is an extension of Wasabi’s Series C financing announced in April, expanding the total funding raised for the round to $137 million and the company’s total equity financing to $244 million. Read more >>
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Aramco Venture Arm Investing in U.S. Startup Wasabi

The venture capital arm of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned energy producer Aramco is investing in Boston-area cloud-storage startup Wasabi Technologies. One of Aramco’s funds, Prosperity7 Ventures, is contributing to a $25 million follow-on investment, alongside the venture capital arm of disk-drive maker Western Digital Corp., Wasabi Chief Executive Officer David Friend said exclusively in a Bloomberg Radio interview Wednesday. Read more >>
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