Snowflake CEO Slootman talks about industry focus and growth
This week we spoke with the CEO of Snowflake, Frank Slootman, about the latest developments at the data company and the developments towards the future. Snowflake has been positioning itself as a data cloud platform, as opposed to a data warehouse, for some time now. Slootman's focus is now fully o...
Snowflake Data Marketplace grows to over 500 datasets
The Snowflake Data Marketplace is growing in popularity. In the past six months, this marketplace has grown by no less than 76 percent. At this moment, more than 500 datasets are offered.
The Snowflake data platform offers the possibility to use datasets from the marketplace in combination with ...
Marvell launches the first PCIe 5 SSD controller
Touting enhanced security, data protection, and cloud-optimization, Marvell’s PCIe 5 SSD offers sequential read output up to to 14GB/sec.
Its performance is two times better than the PCIe 4.0 SSD controllers, and it comes in two models the MV-SS1333, which is sixteen channels, and the MV-SS133...
Talend survey finds only 64% of enterprises leverage data properly
Enterprise leaders cannot stop touting data as the most important thing in business. However, about 36% of business leaders do not leverage its usefulness to make important decisions.
A survey by Talend, an open-source data integration platform, found that 78% of business executives do not know ...
Qlik updates Mobile Analytics Experience
Qlik announced Qlik Sense Mobile for SaaS, which brings a better mobile analytics experience. It is among four very important features being delivered in the second quarter across the company’s analytics and data integration platform.
Customers will use the updates to achieve active intelligen...
Microsoft’s EU data protections are not adequate
Microsoft has announced that it has plans to ensure data processing for EU cloud services within the borders of the bloc. The plans have led expert observers to make claims that show problems with the software giant’s existing setup.
The problems extend to the UK's public sector organizations ...
IBM Watson receives federated learning and time series updates
IBM is making updates to the Watson AI technology, for business use. The company will add support for federated learning and time series capabilities in Watson Studio. The changes are designed to help customers build AI solutions they can trust, according to Big Blue.
The company also said that ...
Google’s Logica promises to make data queries “fun”
The new Logic Programming language is a successor to Google's earlier Yedalog SQL.
The big brains at Google have decided that plain old Structured Query Language (SQL) is no good at scale, and leads to messy databases. Thus, they have gifted the world a new Logic Programming language to help kee...
Data is a superpower, but can also be super vulnerable
These days, companies deal with more data than ever. This data has become a superpower, as it comes with many opportunities. At the same time, it comes with new major security risks. By having a clear picture of what you can do about it and what will happen in the coming months, your company become...
The data age: trends you need to know about
The large amounts of data that companies have at their disposal offer enormous opportunities. Now that we have entered the 'data age', it is possible to optimise business processes much better with data. It also makes it easier to identify market opportunities. Therefore, getting your data strategy...
Snowflake reports first earnings since IPO
Revenue more than doubled to $159.6 million from $73 million a year ago.
This week Snowflake, the San Mateo, California based Data Cloud provider, announced financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2021, ended October 31, 2020.
Total revenue for the quarter was $159.6 million, repre...
Snowflake data warehouse gets Informatica’s data integration features
Informatica’s line of data integration and governance tools for Snowflake is expanding. The company launched serverless data integration pipelines, a collaborative marketplace of data analytics tools, and a portal for creating user profiles.
Informatica is one of the largest data integration p...