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Posted on 9584 NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global cloud-led, data-centric software company, today announced that Carrie Palin, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Splunk, provider of the Data-to-Everything™ Platform, has joined its Board of Directors. Palin’s appointment aligns with NetApp’s commitment to diversity and a refreshed Board of Directors. This brings the number of directors on the NetApp Board to nine,...

istock With the recent rise in cyberattacks and exponential data growth, protecting data has become job #1 for many IT organizations. Their biggest hurdle: managing aging infrastructure with limited resources. But tight budgets should not discourage business leaders from modernizing data protection – in fact, it’s the other way around. Most legacy infrastructures deliver very little value for the cost, and they can leave your data vulnerable. Organizations that leverage older...

istock Many organizations today have adopted a cloud first strategy aimed to take advantage of on-demand agility, cloud-based elasticity, and charges for services based on actual use. But public cloud is not a one-size-fits-all infrastructure. All too often, IT leaders adopt this strategy to enable innovation, only later to realize the overwhelming cost and complexity of managing a disparate collection of clouds. The fact is, while it’s easy to see the promise of agility and ...

AlleyWatch Snowflake Snowflake provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud. Founded by Benoit Dageville, Marcin Zukowski, and Thierry Cruanes in 2012, Snowflake is backed by investors that include Sequoia Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Dragoneer Investment Group, and Redpoint and is headquartered in San Mateo. FOUNDED:2012 FOUNDERS:Benoit Dageville, Marcin Zukowski, Thierry Cruanes