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Joseph F. Kovar

Snowflake Computing: Challenging Data Warehouse Status Quo

CEO: Bob Muglia

Snowflake Computing in October came out of stealth mode with a cloud-based data warehousing service it has positioned as a more flexible, easier-to-manage alternative to traditional on-premise data warehouses to compete with services such as Amazon Web Services' Redshift.

Snowflake, which as of October had raised $26 million in two rounds of venture financing, has former Microsoft and Juniper Networks executive Bob Muglia in the CEO chair.

The company's Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse collects and analyzes both structured data from transactional IT systems and semi-structured machine data, and provides a 90 percent cost savings compared with on-premise data warehouse systems, the company said.

 
Joseph F. Kovar

Joseph F. Kovar is a senior editor and reporter for the storage and the non-tech-focused channel beats for CRN. He keeps readers abreast of the latest issues related to such areas as data life-cycle, business continuity and disaster recovery, and data centers, along with related services and software, while highlighting some of the key trends that impact the IT channel overall. He can be reached at jkovar@thechannelcompany.com.

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