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Snowflake , the data cloud company, has listed the winners of the 4th annual Data Drivers Awards for Southeast Asia. These awards honour Snowflake customers leading their organisations and reimagining what’s possible with the data cloud across their industries. Source: Snowflake. From left: Sanjay Deshmukh, Senior Regional VP, ASEAN and India, Snowflake; Dan Noel Natindim, VP for Enterprise Data Office, Globe Telecom (ASEAN); Manish Kumar, Head of Data Management and Engineering, Funding Societies; Ned Lowe, Head of Engineering at Singlife with Aviva; Danny Thien, Director, Head of Data, M1; Edgar Ricardo Contreras Borjas, Backend and DevOps Team Lead, Lomotif. “Snowflake customers continue to push the envelope of what’s possible with data, unlocking new ways to drive impact across the Data Cloud . They demonstrate how a well-implemented cloud data analytics strategy drives innovation, increases business agility, improves time-to-market and enhances customer experience,” said S...

NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, in collaboration with VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS), has announced the general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP with VMware Cloud on AWS , the first and only native AWS cloud storage service certified and supported as a supplemental datastore for VMware Cloud on AWS . With this new datastore solution, enterprises can quickly, easily and cost-effectively move their enterprise, data-demanding workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS . This allows organisations to scale cloud storage independent of cloud compute to optimise costs, deploy new modern applications with the speed and scalability of the cloud, and maximise the value of their existing IT investments. Additionally, organisations can gain access to the rich data management, protection, and efficiency benefits of ONTAP utilised by nearly 20,000 VMware customers running on-premises today. “Our strong relationship, deep integration and joint innovation with b...

CyberRes, a Micro Focus line of business, has announced a new version of Voltage File Analysis Suite (FAS), a cloud platform that combines the latest in data discovery and data protection. Among the new features in Voltage FAS is SmartScan, a tool for intelligent sampling and dynamic tagging for petabyte scale data discovery. “The new CyberRes Voltage File Analysis Suite takes data security to the next level with its data discovery and protection capabilities within one solution,” said Reiner Kappenberger, Director Product Management, Voltage Data Privacy and Protection.  “Since it is delivered as a SaaS solution, it possesses the scalability needed to meet the needs of any user’s data estate. Furthermore, the dynamic Voltage SmartScan tool provides users with the resources needed to conduct more prescriptive, deeper scans of their data infrastructure and take more focused protective actions.” Voltage FAS is not limited by the constraints of geographic or political boundaries, e...