Violin Memory appoints Vince Blackall as Vice President of Channels for EMEA

Violin Memory, Inc., provider of memory-based storage systems, has announced Vince Blackall as Violin Memory’s Vice President (VP) of Channels for EMEA. A highly successful executive in his field, Blackall has a strong technology and storage sales background. Prior to Violin, he held various channel management roles in Europe, Asia and the Americas for companies like Dell Software, CommVault Systems and Veritas (now Symantec). At Violin, Blackall will be responsible for overseeing and...

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The Cloud Industry Forum voices strong opposition to Google’s latest attempt to control the future of the .cloud gTLD

Industry remains highly concerned that a dominant vendor should never be allowed to have control of a generic industry term such as cloud. Earlier this year ICANN started the process of reviewing thousands of generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) applications across varied industries. One of those was .cloud. Three global brands – Google, Symantec and Amazon – applied for that domain as a closed registry, meaning that the applicant would be the sole registrar and registrant with...

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Great Western Railway (GWR), formerly known as First Great Western, one of the UK's largest and...
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