In the pre-cloud era, hardware companies would run benchmarks showing how database and application performance ran best on their systems relative to competitors and previous generation boxes. They would make a big deal out of it and the independent software vendors would do a \u201cgolf clap\u201d in the form of a joint press release. It was a game of leapfrog amongst hardware competitors that became pretty commonplace over the years. The Dell-Snowflake deal underscores that the value prop between hardware companies and ISVs is changing and has much more to do with distribution channels and the amount of data that lives on-prem in various storage platforms. For cloud-native ISVs like Snowflake, they are realizing that despite their cloud-only dogma, they have to grit their teeth and deal with on-premises data or risk getting shut out of evolving data architectures.\xa0
In this Breaking Analysis we unpack what little is known about the Snowflake announcement from Dell Technologies World\u2026 and discuss the implications of a changing cloud ecosystem landscape. We\u2019ll also share some new ETR data for cloud and database platforms that shows Snowflake has actually entered the earth\u2019s orbit when it comes to spending momentum on its platform.\xa0