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Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide

Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had β€œoperations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.”

Snowflake pushed an update this week that caused a β€œmajor outage” worldwide, leaving many users unable to query data, experiencing failures when ingesting files, and receiving error messages for 13 hours, the company wrote in an impact statement.…

Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs

The company has reportedly consulted itself and decided it needs fewer people

Consultant cut thyself! Where consulting firms typically tell other companies how to make more money by trimming the fat, they are now looking inward, as advances in AI and a push for efficiency prompt layoffs, with blue-chip advisor McKinsey weighing thousands of job cuts, according to reports.…

VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA

Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu

ExclusiveΒ  Broadcom has recently killed off VMware vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA, the company told The Register, dealing a blow to smaller customers, one of whom told us they would likely switch to a rival hypervisor as a result.…

Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it

Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed

ServiceNow’s dominant spot among IT service management (ITSM) platforms is facing its β€œmost credible” threat to date, as longtime platform rival Salesforce has rolled out an AI agent-powered product that has won early plaudits from one of the largest credit unions in the US.…

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