Snowflake performs in-out CEO routine, with Frank Slootman replacing Bob Muglia
The Snowflake board has dumped chairman and CEO Bob Muglia and brought in former ServiceNow boss Frank Slootman to replace him.
Founded in 2012 venture-backed Snowflake provides a data warehouse...
Amazon adds block storage to Snowball Edge
Amazon has introduced block storage for its Snowball Edge data collecting and processing device, adding to existing file and object storage capabilities.
According to Amazon, customers want to process locally...
Dell double-dates with Azure
Dell Technologies World Dell introduced Microsoft, its hot new date in the cloud, at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas today.
The company is extending VMware Cloud to support...
Pure Storage moves Evergreen subscriptions around the blocks
Pure Storage is rounding out its Evergreen Storage Service with movable block capacity and a backup offering. It is developing a block storage offering on AWS and has released...
VxRail gets a new dimension – VMware Cloud
Dell Technologies World Dell Technologies Cloud - the much signalled Project Dimension that puts VMware Cloud on on-premises kit, has landed at Dell Technologies World.
Dell EMC’s VxRail hyperconverged system...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Huawei, InfiniteIO, Seagate, Spectrum Scale, StorONE and Tintri
Today is the opening day of the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas with wall-to-wall-and-back-again announcements. Before we dive in and get ‘Dell-ified’ here are a set of...
Dell: What next?
Michael Dell is the king of US computer hardware-based system companies, brushing past Cisco, HPE, IBM and everyone else to assume the throne. But what next for his eponymous...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Azure, Pure Storage, Datrium, Hitachi Vantura and more
Today has been a blockbuster blizzard for enterprise storage news. Blocks & Files will guide you through the day's events with this handy round-up. Let's start with Microsoft.
Azure moves...
Read This! The Bottomless Cloud is abundantly clear
Book review Customers should store all their data in a bottomless cloud because that data can be used to generate new business with a value exceeding its storage cost....
Your Easter enterprise storage getaway
We have picked out four themes for you in our Easter enterprise storage roundup: flash arrays are taking over from disk arrays; backup to the cloud is booming,...
ChaosSearch makes AWS S3 data searchable
Freshly-minted startup ChaosSearch has devised a way to analyse, index and search log data in the S3 part of Amazon's cloud.
It calls itself CHAOSSEARCH but this all-caps shrieking is...
IBM storage hardware revenues fall for third quarter in a row
IBM’s storage hardware business fell in the first quarter, with poor DS8000 sales and weak mid-range performance to blame.
Within IBM's overall Q1, FY2019 results, storage hardware revenues were down...