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Wasabi Technologies Japan held a business strategy briefing with Marty Falaro, Executive Vice President and COO of the company’s US headquarters. Wasabi Networks, a cloud-based storage service provider founded in 2017, entered the Japanese market in 2019. Currently, the company operates 16 regions: six in North America, six in Europe, and four in Asia. Of the four Asian regions, two are in Japan (Tokyo and Osaka), demonstrating the importance the company places on the market. Falaro cited three key features of the company’s services: low price, high performance, and security . The company claims that its pricing is up to 80% lower than that of hyperscaler storage services like Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Furthermore, the company’s pricing structure is simple, eliminating the egress costs (downstream transfer fees/ data retrieval fees) imposed by hyperscalers and incurring no additional costs for API requests. In terms of performance, the company is working to improve speeds, including the launch of NVMe SSDs as a new storage class specifically designed for AI workloads. Furthermore, immutable (non-rewritable) storage is also offered to ensure data security. Regarding workloads, Mr. Nakamura stated, “We are seeing adoption across a wide range of use cases, from backup and recovery to AI.” He then introduced the latest initiatives in AI support, an area of particular focus. First, as an initiative launched in the US, the “AI-First Storage Region,” built in San Jose, California in partnership with IBM Cloud, will begin operation in the fourth quarter of 2025. This region offers “Wasabi Fire,” a new storage class for AI that uses NVMe SSDs.
Performance-wise, it is said to be equivalent to “Amazon S3 Express” or “Azure Premium,” and the price in the US has been announced as $19.99 per TB per month. Potential use cases include “AI and machine learning workloads: high-speed access to data models,” “high-frequency data logging and ingestion: for monitoring and observability,” and “media processing pipelines: reducing end-to-end processing time through high-speed reads and writes.” When using GPUs for AI training, an uninterrupted data supply is essential to keep GPUs, a costly resource, running without idleness. This requires close proximity between GPUs and storage. Wasabi Technologies, a specialized storage service, was concerned that it alone could not meet user needs. However, its partnership with IBM enabled it to utilize the computing resources provided by IBM Cloud. Falaro cited the expansion of its user base by providing services to IBM’s customers in addition to its own. Wasabi Fire is scheduled to launch in the Tokyo region in the first half of 2026, and the Tokyo region will also be located close to IBM Cloud computing resources.
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Wasabi has also partnered globally with Dell Technologies to create a hybrid storage service called “Wasabi with Dell ObjectScale.” This service combines Dell Technologies’ object storage product “ObjectScale” with Wasabi Technologies‘ cloud storage service, “extending on-premises storage to the cloud for long-term storage, archiving, and seamless hybrid workflows.” The service is currently available in the US and the UK, but is also scheduled to be launched in the Tokyo region in the first half of 2026.
SOURCE: Yahoo
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