Changing the Cloud Storage Game with Wasabi | Episode #50

Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

Anthony Spiteri

Tech News, News

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I talk with David Friend, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder at Wasabi. Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and access an unlimited amount of data at a fraction of the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. David and I talk about his vision of making cloud storage affordable and accessible for all without compromising on performance, reliability and support. Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date to not only grow their global storage footprint, but also to embark on a campaign to educate the world that there is value beyond the public clouds. This is a great conversation about the state of data today, and how the mindset needs to shift to get more out of stored data as the cost of storage becomes almost irrelevant.

Wasabi was founded in 2015 and is Head Quartered out of Boston.

☑️ Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Object Storage, Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, DELL, AWS, Azure, Google, S3, Amazon S3

☑️ Raw Talking Points:

Cloud Scale and growth Elasticity Needs of the given moment instead of expectation of growth
Value and Risk in cloud - supply chain systems analogy - what was needed
DATA DATA DATE Data growth rates everything generating data
Making Data Storage a Commodity
80% cost reduction
No EGRES/API
Fast S3 API compatible
Durability 11 9s
Immutable Buckets
Cloud Storage as a Utility
Simple Pricing
State of data today and where is it going?
Ease of consumption vs method of consumption
Simple interface/control panel/APIs
Trusted by 43,000+ Companies Worldwide!
Partnerships how is it navigated in a competitive sense?

☑️ Web: https://wasabi.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Start in a couple of seconds.
0:08.2	So I'll just go through the intro and then I'll get into it.
0:15.3	Hello and welcome to episode 50 of Great Things with Great Tech, the podcast highlighting
0:20.4	companies doing great
0:21.5	things with great technology. My name's Anthony Spiteri and in this episode, we're talking
0:26.6	to a company that provides simple, predictable and affordable cloud storage to businesses all over
0:32.3	the world, a company that enables organizations to store and access an unlimited amount of data at lower
0:38.5	prices than competitive platforms without complexity or unpredictable charges.
0:44.3	A company that has been recognized as one of the fastest growing and most visionary companies
0:49.0	in its space, securing nearly $275 million in funding to date, a company that wants to be faster than the fastest
0:57.4	and cheaper than the cheapest. That company is Wasabi. I'm talking to David Friend, CEO and co-founder
1:04.6	at Wasabi. Welcome to the show, David. Yeah, thanks, Anthony. Excellent. So great to have you on. Just before we get into everything with Saabie, I've just got to do a quick call out to the show
1:15.6	and also pay a little bit of homage to the fact that we're at episode 50 here at Great Things
1:20.6	with Great Tech.
1:21.6	But firstly, if you love Great Things with Great Tech and would like to feature in future episodes,
1:25.6	you can click on a link on the show notes or go to gtwgt.com and register your interest. And just as a reminder,
1:33.6	all episodes of the podcast are up on Spotify, Google, Apple, all distributed and hosted by anchor.
1:40.1	fm. And last, just before we get into it, as mentioned, this is episode number 50 for GTWGT.
1:46.7	I'm really happy to have Wasabia on because I've been, like I said, chasing them for a while.
1:51.9	But I'd just like to say thank you to everyone who has helped get the podcast to episode 50,
1:57.2	all the great people and all the great companies that we've had on previously.
2:01.1	And obviously in the future, you've been a great support
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