Snowflake’s newest cloud data warehouse takes aim at regulated industries

 Snowflake, makers of a cloud data warehouse service, announced a new virtual private product that should appeal to highly regulated companies like financial services and healthcare. In fact, the company also announced that one of the product’s earliest customers, Capital One, will be investing $5 million in Snowflake as a strategic investor as a result of this new approach. Most… Read More Continue reading Snowflake’s newest cloud data warehouse takes aim at regulated industries

AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month

screen-shot-2016-11-30-at-11-35-02-am AWS fired a shot across Digital Ocean’s bow this morning at the AWS re:Invent conference when it announced new virtual private servers starting at just $5 a month. The VPS service, called Lightsail, allows a customer to easily fire up a server in the cloud for a low price and hide the complexity of the underlying services being used. It’s been designed, according to AWS CEO Andy… Read More Continue reading AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month