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Slalom GM shares her take on why cloud adoption is trending upward

There’s a divide in the enterprise computing space on whether companies should go full-on cloud, employ hybrid infrastructures, or remain on-premises with their data.While there isn’t a consensus yet, the adoption numbers on cloud are clearly trending upward, casting an optimistic light on what’s to come.“I think they’re flocking to the cloud,” said Hilary Feier (pictured), general manager of data and analytics at Slalom LLC. “I think COVID had people flock there. You realize the agility it provides for you; it is unparalleled

Breaking down data silos: Snowflake promises native data app capabilities

During its fourth annual user conference this week, Snowflake Inc. released new product announcements and hosted its second annual Startup Challenge.A key focus during the event was around Snowflake’s advancing innovation and partnerships.“One of our big announcements here this week is around building native data apps in Snowflake. Now you can both build the apps and you can distribute and monetize them in our marketplace,” said Denise Persson (pictured), Snowflake’s chief marketing officer.Persson spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and Lisa Martin at Snowflake Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio

Saks leverages data pipelines to unlock critical business insights in near real time

Pulling data from different sources fast is becoming prudent for critical business decisions, because it accelerates analysis and operational efficiency.To enable customers to express themselves through fashion, Saks.com LLC is going a notch higher by modernizing its databases and pipelines so that near real-time insights can be gained, according to Veronika Durgin (pictured, right), head of data at Saks.“Saks is the premier luxury e-commerce platform,” Durgin stated. “Fivetran helps us ingest data from all those data sources into Snowflake in near real time

Snowflake fleshes out its ‘data cloud thesis’ with new announcements

Organizations can have all the cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, but it all falls flat without the proper tools needed to harness and take advantage of their data resources.Catering to that need, Snowflake Inc. made a slew of announcements during its the Day 1 Keynote at this week’s Snowflake Summit.“I think the Native Application Framework is the one that looks like … it has the biggest potential to change everything,” said Christian Kleinerman (pictured), senior vice president of product at Snowflake. “That is to create an entire ecosystem of solutions for within a company or across companies

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman explains on-premises shift, SaaS model and vision for data networking

In May, Snowflake Inc. surprised much of the enterprise computing world with the announcement that it would partner with Dell Technologies Inc. to ease access to on-premises data. The news represented an abrupt departure from Snowflake’s previous insistence that it would remain singularly focused on the public cloud.What changed? A chance meeting between Snowflake Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman (pictured) and Michael Dell, chairman and CEO at Dell, apparently led to Snowflake’s change of heart.“It started with a conversation I had with Michael Dell,” Slootman said. “Michael’s a smart, engaging guy, always looking for opportunity

Inside ‘Everyday AI’ and the machine learning-heavy future

Artificial intelligence is being used for everything from automating workflows to assisting customers and even creating art.Dataiku Ltd. calls this “Everyday AI.” It’s a systematic approach to embedding AI into the organization in a way that makes it part of the routine of doing business. Dataiku has teamed up with cloud-based data warehousing giant Snowflake Inc. to set organizations up for everyday AI and the machine learning-heavy future

Snowflake is not just a data warehouse: TheCUBE analyzes day 1 summit keynote

This year’s three-day Snowflake Summit kicked off Tuesday with a focus on data collaboration. Headlining the day 1 keynote was Snowflake Inc. Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman, who addressed the company’s market standing, technological advancements and growth plans.TheCUBE was live at the Summit, providing analysis on the Keynote address. A primary takeaway during the event kickoff included Snowflake’s mission to demystify the narrative that it’s not just a data warehouse with a walled garden framework — it’s open to innovation, according to Doug Henschen (pictured), vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research Inc

The new Capital One Software biz launches Slingshot platform

Capital One Financial Corp. recently launched its new enterprise B2B software business, Capital One Software, which focuses on providing cloud and data management solutions for companies operating in the cloud.The business unit’s first product release is its Slingshot platform, a data management solution for customers of Snowflake that helps businesses accelerate adoption of the Snowflake Data Cloud, manage cloud costs, and automate critical governance processes“We realized that with all of this power comes a lot of responsibility,” said Patrick Barch (pictured), senior director of product management at Capital One Software

Infosys, Snowflake partner to unlock new possibilities with data and AI

As more organizations shift their resources from on-premises to cloud infrastructures, they must deal with the added complexities of technologies like artificial intelligence. To do so, many organizations are relying on solutions to ease the transition.Industry disruptor Snowflake Inc. is answering the call. The company is tapping its ecosystem of partners to help the enterprise break down data silos.“Snowflake brings to the table an opportunity for them to take all of their data and move it from one cloud to the other,” said Chris Degnan (pictured, right), chief revenue officer of Snowflake

Warner Bros. implements new tech for seamless data mesh governance

Data mesh is one of the hottest topics in the data industry, because it seeks to enhance scalability and democratization through a self-serve and domain-oriented design.By deploying the data mesh concept, Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. offers federated access because the culture of data warehouses being monolithic is eliminated, according to Ash Naseer (pictured, right), senior director of data engineering at Warner Bros.“When people think of Warner Bros., you always think of the movie studio, but we’re more than that,” he said. “Think of HBO, TNT and CNN; we have 30-plus brands in our portfolio, and each has its own needs

Analysts assess Snowflake’s strategic direction following latest announcements

Snowflake Inc. made a number of announcements during its gathering in Las Vegas this week that were aimed at reducing friction in app development and managing analytical and transactional data on a single platform.The latest moves offered a glimpse into Snowflake’s strategic direction, which will be accompanied by its own set of challenges, according to analysts in attendance.“In effect, they are trying to become a data operating system,” said Dave Menninger (pictured, left), senior vice president and research director at Ventana Research. “It’s ambitious. I think they’ll experience some success with that. They will still struggle, however, with bringing everything together on one platform

Data is the security flaw, says Immuta’s CEO; company moves to fill gap

Enterprises across the world are struggling with the complexity of data policies, rules and regulations. This is because data management and security has been rapidly changing, and the data itself can bring huge security threats.“What you’re seeing in the market now is the catalog players are really maturing, and they’re starting to add a suite of features around governance,” said Matthew Carroll (pictured), chief executive officer of Immuta Inc. “So quality control, observability and just traditional asset management around their data. What we are finding is that there’s a new gap in this space … data is the security flaw

Matillion and Western Union partner for a modern enterprise data stack

Every day, the world creates about 2.5 quintillion ( 2,500,000,000,000,000,000) bytes of data. But using it is a different story.Snowflake’s Data Cloud is making the world’s data useful by providing a tech platform that allows businesses to load, transform, synchronize and orchestrate data. And Matillion Ltd., named Snowflake’s Technology Partner of the Year for Data Integration, is using its ETL tool for Snowflake to provide organizations with faster-than-traditional ETL integration. Western Union Co. is one of those companies its helping

Ecosystem growth and application focus define Snowflake’s supercloud strategy

Snowflake Inc. provided a range of announcements during its Summit gathering in Las Vegas last week, from a new framework for developers to build and monetize applications to Unistore, a workload approach that combines transactional and analytic data on a single platform.Yet one analyst viewed Snowflake’s strategy to leverage new technologies on top of the existing cloud platform as a critical element in news from the Summit gathering.“What Snowflake is developing is what we call a supercloud; it’s not just SaaS, it’s not just a cloud database, it’s a new layer that they’re creating,” said Dave Vellante, industry analyst for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio

Data collaboration vital for successful digital transformation, says Deloitte

Organizations are increasingly embracing data collaboration for effective digital transformation,  and technologies and techniques continue to evolve.As companies leverage the expertise of professional services organizations to drive their data maturity goals, the gospel of data collaboration and sharing is taking on wings.“We often tell folks that data has and will continue to be more valuable than the systems that own it and manage it,” said Juan Tello (pictured), principal and chief data officer at Deloitte Consulting LLP. “And I think we’re starting to see that

Snowflake and AWS partner for single source of truth

Customer centricity is at the center of the flywheel in today’s enterprise world, based on various reasons, including gaining a competitive edge.By working backward to meet customers’ needs, tastes and preferences, Snowflake Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. have been able to form a strategic, technical, and go-to-market partnership, according to Chris Grusz (pictured, right), director of business development for AWS Marketplace, Service Catalog and Control Tower at AWS.“It’s such a good relationship, because both companies work backward from customers … it’s in our DNA,” Grusz stated. “If you look at Snowflake, they’ve built over 20 integrations to different AWS services

Guild Education partners with Snowflake for increased data security

Snowflake Inc.’s new cybersecurity workload for cloud data platforms is poised to tackle threats across multiple platforms, from traditional data centers to cloud-based data. It also takes on the

Three insights you might have missed from Snowflake Summit 2022

Cloud data warehouse disruptor Snowflake Inc. is the rockstar of the data management scene. So, it is appropriate that the energy at Snowflake Summit 2022 was akin to the buzz at a live concert, thanks to standing-room only keynotes and an attendance of close to 10,000 people. Despite a recent stock market dip, Snowflake’s announcements […]...

Snowflake Summit 2022: All about apps and monetizing data

Much of the energy around data innovation that dispersed with the decline of big-data processing framework Hadoop’s relevance is coalescing in a new ecosystem spawned by the ascendency of Snowflake Inc.’s Data Cloud. What was once seen as a simpler cloud data warehouse, and good marketing with Data Cloud, is evolving rapidly with new workloads, a vertical industry focus, data applications, monetization and more. The question is: Will the promises of data be fulfilled this time around or is it same wine, new bottle?

ADP unlocks massive potential using Financial Services Data Cloud SnowflakeSummit

With data being a substrate of enterprises, making the best use of it has become crucial. Being in a position to influence public policy and create more standards, ADP Inc. uses Snowflake Inc.’s Financial Services Data Cloud to provide workers’ information almost instantaneously, helping solve issues like the need for talent, according to Jack Berkowitz (pictured, right), chief data officer of ADP. “One of the things that we provide is compensation data,” Berkowitz stated. “We issue something called the “National Employment Report” that informs the world about what’s happening in the U.S. economy regarding workers. The thing that we’ve been able to do with Snowflake is to lower the time that it takes us to process and get that information out into the fingertips of people.”

ThoughtSpot aims to democratize the data stack with help from Snowflake

With technologies like Web3, quantum computing, artificial intelligence and 5G creating and consuming vast amounts of data, the ability to put data to use has never been more important. Last year, Snowflake Inc.’s venture capital arm, Snowflake Ventures, invested in ThoughtSpot Inc. to support its goal of making data analytics and AI available to everyone.

Q&A: Snowflake, Qlik deepen partnership for real-time data access

QlikTech International AB recently announced multiple new and enhanced capabilities within Snowflake Inc.’s Data Cloud. These include new cloud analytics services features like Direct Query, which provideS data leaders with a comprehensive understanding of how to best optimize Snowflake workloads. The new and enhanced services from QlikTech expand the ability to both seamlessly feed and access Snowflake with […]...

The evolution of collaboration in the Data Cloud: Snowflake co-founder weighs in

Evolution and pivoting are integral as companies scale, allowing them to incorporate more features and capabilities in a bid to serve a wider audience, drive expanded business objectives and deliver solutions to more use cases. Snowflake Inc. started its journey by providing a combined big data and data warehouse solution, infused with an elasticity and simplicity that struck a chord with customers. “Then we realized that there is one other unique attribute in the cloud that doesn’t exist on-premises, which is collaboration, how you can connect different tenants of the platform together,” said Benoit Dageville (pictured), co-founder and president of products at Snowflake Inc.