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Snowflake Debuts New Government and Education Data Cloud

Snowflake has unveiled its latest industry-specific offering---the Government and Education Data Cloud. The company says its Government and Education Data Cloud is aimed at empowering educational institutions and publ Read more…

Snowflake Bolsters Data Cloud Search Capabilities with Neeva Acquisition

Snowflake has announced it will acquire search specialist Neeva for an undisclosed amount. “Search is fundamental to how businesses interact with data,” said Snowflake Co-founder Benoit Dageville in a blog post. � Read more…

Snowflake Introduces Manufacturing Data Cloud to Empower Industries with Data and AI

Data and AI technology for manufacturing is having a moment. As AI has expanded its lengthy reach into manufacturing, there have been several purpose-built releases lately from companies like Nvidia and Databricks that a Read more…

DataRobot Unleashes 9.0 Update and Partner Integrations to Drive AI ROI

DataRobot is capitalizing on the surging popularity of AI with new partner integrations and a significant platform update: DataRobot AI Platform 9.0. DataRobot’s AI platform is designed to cater to both data scienti Read more…

Snowpark for Python Now Generally Available

Snowflake and Anaconda recently announced the general availability of Snowpark for Python, a solution that embeds Anaconda’s data and machine learning packages within Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Previously available i Read more…

Snowflake Reflects on 10 Years Passed, Ponders 10 Years Ahead

When Snowflake Computing was founded 10 years ago, the big data market looked much different than it does today. Momentum was building behind something called Hadoop, while cloud computing was viewed with suspicion. Desp Read more…

PowerSchool Launches K-12 Education Cloud Platform with Snowflake

As students head back to classrooms this month, some may find their education data is being managed differently with better education outcomes in mind. PowerSchool, the provider of a cloud-based software platform for K-1 Read more…

Snowflake Unveils Native Apps, UniStore, and More Python Support at Summit

Snowflake kicked off its annual conference today by making a slew of improvements to its cloud data warehouse, including the introduction of native apps for purchase in its Snowflake Marketplace, support for transactiona Read more…

Alation Named Snowflake Data Governance Partner of the Year for 2021

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June of 2021 was a big month for Alation. Not only did we announce having raised $110M in funding at a $1.2B valuation, we also advanced our partnership with Snowflake. Together, Snowflake and Alation help joint customer Read more…

Do Customers Want Open Data Platforms?

Snowflake turned some heads in the big data market with recent blog posts and articles that cast doubt on the benefits of open data architectures. Customers should “choose open wisely,” the data warehouse giant says, Read more…

Snowflake: Not What You May Think It Is

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is the toast of the big data community, and following the $3.4 billion IPO, a favorite on Wall Street too. But this whole Snowflake exercise could have turned out dramatically different, the Read more…

Palantir Looks to Build on Snowflake’s IPO Success

On the heels of Snowflake’s wildly successful initial public offering, investors are eagerly awaiting Palantir Technologies’ direct listing this week in what is expected to be the latest in a series of lucrative trad Read more…

Snowflake Pops in ‘Largest Ever’ Software IPO

Snowflake’s stock more than doubled today during its initial public offering, and the volatility was so great that stock market officials briefly halted trading in what the mainstream press is calling the largest ever Read more…

Virtualization Startup Varada Streamlines Data Ops

Varada, a data virtualization startup targeting big data query acceleration, announced a $12 million funding round this week as it ramps up its “zero data-ops” platform designed to prioritize analytics workloads via Read more…

Snowflake to Make it SNOW on NYSE

Rumors have been swirling for weeks that Snowflake confidentially filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yesterday, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehousing company made it official: It inte Read more…

What Is a Data Cloud? And 11 Other Snowflake Enhancements

Snowflake has changed how the industry thinks about data warehouses with its cloud-native offering, which has been adopted by 4,000 organizations, including 2,000 in the last year alone. Now the company is taking the con Read more…

Snowflake Rides Cloud Wave to Great Heights

Snowflake Computing started quietly enough back in 2012, at the height of Hadoop hype, when the idea of a relational analytics database running in the cloud was interesting, if not exactly groundbreaking. Fast forward se Read more…

Combating the High Cost of Cloud Analytics

Cloud providers are growing very quickly at the moment, as companies flock to utilize their various storage and processing services.  However, while some companies are finding cloud platforms save them money, others are Read more…

Cloud In, Hadoop Out as Hot Repository for Big Data

If you're in charge of architecting a big data strategy for your organization, you have a lot of tough decisions to make. One of the easiest, however, may be to use cloud repositories to store and process the biggest set Read more…

Anatomy of a Hadoop Project Failure

Several years ago, the educational technology company Blackboard selected Apache Hadoop to run a new data analytics application designed to turn data exhaust into actionable insight. Months later, the failed project was Read more…

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