Snowflake: The Future of the Data Cloud
What is Snowflake?
How are you managing your data? How are you making it available to applications and users? Can you deliver rapid data insights and seamlessly share data inside and outside your organisation?
Snowflake is set to become an essential tool for your business. It ensures you can use your data rather than spending time and resource managing it.
Often conventional data platforms and big data solutions struggle to deliver on their fundamental goal: to enable any user to work with any data, without limits on scale, performance, or flexibility. Snowflake delivers this and helps you get more from your data.
Snowflake, a multi cloud data platform, combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.
Register your interest:
As part of our #BAF.digital webinar series, our partner Snowflake are working with us to offer a Free Trial of Snowflake and an up and coming Virtual Hands On Lab!
To register your interest for either both or just one, please complete the form opposite. We will then get in touch to set up your account and agree dates for the hands on lab.
The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform
Snowflake, a multi cloud data platform, combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.
The Snowflake Cloud Data platform is powerful but simple to use. It promises patented new architecture:
- To be the centrepiece for data pipelines, data warehousing, data lakes, data application development, and
- For building data exchanges
And it helps your business to:
- Make better and quicker decisions
- Get secured and governed access to all accessible data
- Create and manage all of your data workloads on one platform
From a single platform Snowflake enables:
- A modern data warehouse
- Augmented data lakes
- Secure data exchange
- App development
- Advanced data science
- Integrated data engineering
Key Features
Any Cloud
Snowflake’s cloud data platform is available globally on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform, thus supporting a multi-cloud strategy.
With a common and interchangeable code base, Snowflake provides global data replication ensuring you can move your data to any cloud in any region, without having to re-code your applications to learn new skills.
Essential Business Collaboration
Through the multi-cluster shared data architecture of the Snowflake data cloud platform, governed and secure data can be shared in real time.
You have the capability to create your own private data exchanges to share and collaborate with key stakeholders, employees, suppliers and partners in a centrally managed data hub.
Multi-Cluster, Shared Data Services
Multiple database administrative tasks and workloads can be handled by the Snowflake platform.
When it comes to data warehousing you can enjoy unmatched performance and scalability, while the data in your data lake can benefit from robust pipelines and streamlined data engineering. Any data science workloads can be simplified and accelerated.
Hands-off Management
Reduce any administration and management demands of traditional platforms and big data solutions.
As Snowflake is a data platform-as-a-service running in the cloud, there’s no infrastructure that requires time and resource to manage. Infrastructure, optimisation, data availability and data protection is all automatically handled.
Data Processing and Performance at Speed and Scale
Snowflake processes tasks and queries at speed, using advanced optimisations. For example, the use of automatic clustering removes the time-consuming task of manually re-clustering data when loading new data into a table.
By combining this with the capability to scale instantly, you can enjoy enhanced data performance exactly when you need it.
Diverse Data Support
All of your business data can be supported by Snowflake. This may be from traditional sources or newer sources generated by ML for example. And the best part? This can be done without requiring cumbersome transformations and trade-offs.
The patented Snowflake technology natively loads and optimises both structured and semi-structured data and makes it available without impacting performance or flexibility.
Snowflake Data Marketplace
The Snowflake data marketplace opens up the possibilities to easily source external data, as well as opening up new routes to data monetisation.
Any Scale of Data, Workloads and Users
The multi-cluster shared data architecture patented by Snowflake makes it possible to scale up and down, and as you go, without downtime or disruption.
The platform enables you to automatically scale and support any amount of data, workloads and concurrent users and applications, without the need for data movement, or data copies.
Ready-made Infrastructure and Engine for Developers
Snowflake also provides developers and builders of data-driven applications and services a ready-made infrastructure and engine to build and run their solutions.
If you’re keen to learn more about enhancing your business analytics, data and reporting, please get in touch today.
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