Recognition validates Storj's solutions for
data storage and environmental sustainability challenges and
its commitment to DEI & ESG initiatives. Storj continues
rapid growth and market transformation with distributed cloud
object storage.
ATLANTA, May 16, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Storj is proud to be recognized by Fast
Company, Plexus Information Services, Inc and Omidyar Network
as a leading innovator and game-changer, thanks to the
transformative cloud object storage innovation Storj is advancing
in the market.
Storj's innovation is disrupting the $100
billion cloud storage market with a unique distributed
solution that yields up to 90% lower costs and 90% less carbon
emissions for its customers. With data storage rapidly becoming a
top contributor of carbon emissions - Storj's founder Shawn Wilkinson knew a new approach was urgently
needed, and the greenest data center is the one you don't have to
mine materials for, build, operate, cool and maintain. With this in
mind, Storj architected an unprecedented distributed solution that
delivers speed, scalability, security, reliability and
sustainability by design.
Winners of Fast Company's 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards
include fresh sustainability initiatives, cutting-edge AI
developments, ambitious pursuits of social equity, and other
creative projects that are helping mold the world. This year's
World Changing Ideas Awards showcase leading organizations chosen
by a panel of Fast Company editors and reporters who
selected winners from a pool of over 1,300 entries from around the
globe across topics including climate, social justice, wellness,
politics, technology, corporate social responsibility, and
more.
"I was struck this year by the global sweep of the honorees,"
says Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. "It's endlessly inspiring to
see how the world is coming together to devise inventive solutions
to our most challenging problems. We need ideas from everywhere,
and this year's World Changing Ideas Awards are an extraordinary
encapsulation of the innovation and creativity that is so abundant
around the globe."
The Black Tech Effect Top 100 list celebrates the success of 100
promising Black-led, high-growth tech companies while acknowledging
the ongoing challenges affecting the Black tech ecosystem. This
recognition ushers in an era of resiliency and triumph amidst great
change. Storj is proud to have been founded by a black
entrepreneur. Its board and executive teams are both over
two-fifths composed of women or underrepresented people of color
and the company has employees on five continents and over 13
countries.
Katherine Johnson, Storj's Chief
Legal Officer said, "Our company has been values-driven from day
one. The recognition we're receiving for world changing technology
and our impact on the Black-led technology ecosystem is a source of
great pride. Storj's commitment to authenticity and transparency
shines bright in these areas. Storj publishes regularly updated
reports on our DEI & ESG initiatives. It created Storj
Institute to encourage inclusion in emerging technology, and is a
co-founder of the Digital Sustainability Alliance, which is focused
on improving the world through data and insight on innovative
technologies that offer transformative sustainability benefits. Our
customers, partners, and resellers have certainty and confidence in
Storj's priorities and actions."
Additionally, Storj has recently validated its S3 compatible
cloud storage to work with leading back-up and recovery providers
including Commvault, Rubrik, Bacula and Veeam. It has on-boarded
over twenty-five new technology partners and signed agreements with
over twenty new channel distributors and resellers including Climb
Channel Solutions and Telarus, responding to a burgeoning need for
cloud object storage by leveraging unused capacity on drives and
data centers in over 100 countries.
Storj Chief Revenue Officer, Colby
Winegar says, "Our team has continuously expanded the
performance and security of our solution, empowering Storj to
become a formidable competitor to first-gen hyperscalers like
Amazon, at one-tenth of the cost."
About the World Changing Ideas Awards
World Changing
Ideas is one of Fast Company's major annual awards programs
and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products
and bold concepts that make the world better. Judges choose
winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and
the potential for impact. With the goals of awarding ingenuity and
fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas
with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire
more people to work on solving the problems that affect us all.
About Fast Company
Fast Company is the
only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of
business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential
leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business.
Headquartered in New York City,
Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along
with our sister publication Inc., and can be found online
at www.fastcompany.com.
About Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network is a
social change venture that has committed more than $1 billion to innovative for-profit companies and
nonprofit organizations since 2004. Omidyar Network works to
reimagine critical systems and the ideas that govern them, and to
build more inclusive and equitable societies in which individuals
have the social, economic, and democratic power to thrive.
About Plexus Information Services Inc.
Plexus
Information Services, Inc. is an analytics and insights company
committed to tackling the distinctive challenges of minority-owned
businesses through pioneering research.
About Storj
Storj is redefining the cloud to
support the future of data—sustainably and economically. Storj
leverages the vast global supply of underutilized resources to
deliver services with better security, durability and performance.
Experience up to 90% lower costs and carbon reduction with
Storj.
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