Everyone knows that more and more data is moving to the cloud. According to the latest research, 94% of all enterprises use cloud services and 48% of businesses store classified and important data in the cloud. While the cloud is ubiquitous, in practice it consists of data infrastructures in various locations around the world. The question of where the cloud data infrastructure storing your specific data is located is becoming increasingly important.
Building on the announcements made at this year’s Summit, Snowflake has released a number of new enhancements, especially in the areas of data programmability, global governance, and data sharing. Read on to learn more. For additional details and to see some of these new capabilities in action, be sure to check out the on-demand sessions from Summit.
Today’s organizations face rising customer expectations in a fragmented marketplace amidst stiff competition. This landscape is one that presents opportunities for a modern data-driven organization to thrive. At the nucleus of such an organization is the practice of accelerating time to insights, using data to make better business decisions at all levels and roles.
“The most difficult thing is finding out why your job is failing, which parameters to change. Most of the time, it’s OOM errors…” Jagat Singh, Quora Spark has become one of the most important tools for processing data – especially non-relational data – and deriving value from it. And Spark serves as a platform for the creation and delivery of analytics, AI, and machine learning applications, among others.
Modern data and analytics leaders know that every business user is different. No two marketers or finance managers will use data in exactly the same way because no two share the same contextual view or understanding of the business. Their challenges are as nuanced as they are complex. And they need insights tailored to their specific needs if they are to be successful at solving business problems with data. Unfortunately, traditional BI tools treat everyone like carbon copies.
