Snowflake appoints ex-VMware executive as APJ president

Source:-https://channellife.co.nz Snowflake has appointed a new president for the Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) region. Jon Robertson will join the data cloud company in early March. He will be responsible for driving the adoption and expansion of Snowflake’s Data Cloud in the local market, with a specific focus on empowering local enterprises to mobilise their data for valuable business insights. Robertson is an experienced executive who, prior to joining Snowflake, served VMware in the APAC region for the last 14

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Observe Unveils Observability Platform Built on Snowflake DBaaS

Source:-https://devops.com Company CEO Jeremy Burton said rather than build another data lake platform, it makes more sense to make an observability platform available using a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application model based on an existing cloud service. Burton said Snowflake, which is based on a relational database running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, has already proven it can scale to ingest logs, traces and metrics. The Observe platform leverages that platform to correlate that data to monitor application and infrastructure

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Google Cloud Platform leverages Google’s cloud expertise

Source:-gigabitmagazine.com As the operator of a search engine, video sharing platform and email service, among many other things, Google has built itself on the success of its internal cloud systems. But Google also offers its cloud expertise to enterprise in the form of its Google Cloud Platform. With services such as data management, hybrid and multi-cloud, AI and machine learning. The company pushes the ability to work with existing enterprise systems such as SAP, VMware, Windows and Oracle without compromising

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