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July 2024

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Accelerating Academic Medical Research with an AI-Driven Data Strategy

Jul 31, 2024 By Joe Warbington In Snowflake
Academic medical centers (AMCs) are a critical keystone of healthcare systems worldwide. They serve as major hubs of medical research, pioneering new treatments that advance and set the standard of care throughout medicine. They also educate and train the next generation of healthcare professionals, ensuring that the medical field continues to advance. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 230 active AMCs, and a significant number are part of a health system.
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Snowflake Advances Cybersecurity Excellence by Joining CISA Secure by Design Pledge

Jul 29, 2024 By Brad Jones In Snowflake
I’m happy to share that Snowflake has signed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Secure By Design Pledge as we champion the advancement of industry standards for security in technology design. The CISA pledge to foster tech-ecosystem security deeply aligns with Snowflake’s own product design ethos, where security is built in from the start.
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Snowflake Cortex Search: State-of-the-Art Hybrid Search for RAG Applications

Jul 25, 2024 By Arun Agarwal In Snowflake
Snowflake Cortex Search, a fully managed search service for documents and other unstructured data, is now in public preview. With Cortex Search, organizations can effortlessly deploy retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications with Snowflake, powering use cases like customer service, financial research and sales chatbots.
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A Demonstration Of CyberSaint's AI-Powered Cyber Risk Management Platform

Jul 25, 2024 By Snowflake In Snowflake
Cybersecurity is the topic of this episode of "Powered by Snowflake" as Padraic O'Reilly, Founder and CIO of CyberSaint, chats with host Felipe Hoffa about the mission of his company and provides a demo of the CyberStrong platform. Powered by patented AI and actuarial data, CyberStrong enables organizations to master their cyber risk posture and drive executive alignment by automating compliance and translating cyber risk into financial terms.
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Snowflake Cortex AI Launches Cortex Guard to Implement LLM Safeguards

Jul 24, 2024 By Grace Adamson In Snowflake
Over the last year, as Snowflake has focused on putting AI tools in the hands of its customers, we have prioritized easy, efficient and safe enterprise generative AI. With that in mind, we’re happy to announce the general availability of safety guardrails for Snowflake Cortex AI with Cortex Guard, a new feature that enables enterprises to easily implement safeguards that filter out potentially inappropriate or unsafe large language model (LLM) responses.
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How Snowflake Accelerates Business Growth for Providers of Data, Apps and AI Products

Jul 24, 2024 By Lena Pennington In Snowflake
Let’s say you are building a house that you plan to put up for sale. You focus on an amazing design, beautiful entry, large windows for plenty of sunlight — things that will create a delightful experience for your future buyer. At the same time, the house also needs less glamorous but vitally important infrastructure, like plumbing, running water, electricity, heating, cooling and so on.
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Meta's Llama 3.1 405B Now Available for Enterprise App Development in Snowflake Cortex AI

Jul 23, 2024 By Arun Agarwal In Snowflake
Today, Snowflake is excited to announce that the Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual large language models (LLMs) are now available in Snowflake Cortex AI, providing enterprises with secure, serverless access to Meta’s most advanced open source model. Snowflake offers the largest context window of any vendor, at 128k, for the Llama 3.1 collection of models.
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Breaking Down Data Silos With Cloud-Based Architecture: A Conversation With Kallol Dutta, Spark NZ

Jul 23, 2024 By Snowflake In Snowflake
In this episode of "The Data Cloud Podcast," Kallol Dutta, Head of Transformation at Spark NZ, talks about the idea of the minimum viable data concept, Spark New Zealand’s vision for becoming a cloud software company, and why he considers himself a techno-optimist.
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Getting the Most From Your Modern Data Platform: A Three-Phase Approach

Jul 22, 2024 By Robby Thomas In Snowflake
A robust, modern data platform is the starting point for your organization’s data and analytics vision. At first, you may use your modern data platform as a single source of truth to realize operational gains — but you can realize far greater benefits by adding additional use cases. In this blog, we offer guidance for leveraging Snowflake’s capabilities around data and AI to build apps and unlock innovation.
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From Potential Disaster To Driver of Change... Data Execs Share Their Journeys To Effective AI

Jul 17, 2024 By Jennifer Belissent In Snowflake
A potential recipe for disaster proved to be the focus of every data executive’s agenda over the last year. A year ago many data leaders were caught off-guard. Employees embraced new gen AI tools with fervor, driving interest in all AI initiatives. Generative AI had penetrated the enterprise, with gen AI positioned in the Peak Of Inflated Expectation segment on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial IntelligenceI, 20231.
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Leverage Trusted Data: Alation Data Intelligence Platform

Jul 16, 2024 By Snowflake In Snowflake
Nick Jewell, Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager at Alation, demonstrates how to use the Alation Data Intelligence Platform to easily find, understand, and use trusted data.The demo focuses on how data engineers, data governors, and data users can leverage Alation and Snowflake Horizon to more efficiently ingest, monitor, and share governed data.
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Demo Of The Snowflake Connector For MySQL And PostgreSQL

Jul 15, 2024 By Snowflake In Snowflake
The Snowflake Connector for MySQL and PostgreSQL provides instant access to your data within Snowflake, making it easy to correlate your data with data from other sources, ultimately driving new insights into business operations. The Connector also leverages Snowflake’s built-in security and reliability capabilities and provides IT departments with significant cost and speed advantages. During this demo, you will see how you can set-up, configure, and utilize the Connector with a few clicks via Snowflake Marketplace.
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Data Strategies Map a Journey From Origin To Destination

Jul 9, 2024 By Jennifer Belissent In Snowflake
There is a scene in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation where Tom Cruise is hanging onto the outside of a jet as it has taken off. And while, yes, he’s going with it, he’s not really on board or in control. Some data executives feel like that. It’s not enough to establish goals — or, the destination in this metaphor. The data strategy must provide a flight plan for making sure you get there — on time, on budget and, of course, safely on board.
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16 Ways Insurance Companies Can Use Data and AI

Jul 1, 2024 By Sully McConnell In Snowflake
There is a growing recognition that insurers can introduce data, analytics and AI into virtually all of the important insurance functions and workflows, including product development, pricing and risk selection, underwriting, claims management, contact center optimization, distribution management, reinsurance, and understanding and shaping customer journeys. Here are some of the exciting ways insurance companies can put data to work.
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