As businesses scale to meet the demands of their customers, so do their need for efficient products to collect, manage and analyze data to meet their business goals. Whether you are building a multi-player game or a global e-commerce platform, it's critical to ensure that data can be stored and queried at scale with strong consistency and then processed for analysis to deliver real-time insights.
Experts from Microsoft, WANdisco, and Unravel Data recently outlined a step-by-step playbook—utilizing a data-driven approach—for migrating and managing data applications in the cloud.
Snowflake is proud to announce the open source release of SansShell, a non-interactive local host management agent. Its purpose is to enable strong authentication, authorization, and auditing of the management of servers of any type. The source code is available on GitHub.
Globe Telecom, one of the largest providers of digital services in the Philippines, was operating in a saturated market with limited opportunity to expand. Any strategy for growth depended on nurturing customer relationships and fostering lifelong value with each customer. For Globe Telecom, getting customer data was never the problem — telecom companies produce terabytes of data every day.
The Google BigQuery Write API offers high-performance batching and streaming in one unified API. The previous post in this series introduced the BigQuery Write API. In this post, we'll show how to stream JSON data to BigQuery by using the Java client library.
Marcel Naumann, Senior Engineer Investment at NN Investment Partners, sees a future where fluid, easily accessible data and insights help portfolio managers achieve returns while investing in a responsible manner. We spoke with Naumann to learn how he’s making this future a reality with the Snowflake Data Cloud. NN Investment Partners (NN IP) manages assets for investors across 37 nations.
To IT leaders, it’s obvious that data strategy deserves a special place at the table for any discussion about strategic business initiatives. However, for CMOs and CROs like myself, who must justify and weigh expenditures against bottom line impact, investing in customer data typically looks like a red-ink proposition.
Big data has been revolutionizing the digital marketing landscape: organizations are gathering data from numerous sources; data streams are being collected at unparalleled speeds; and businesses are dealing with a variety of data structures, from emails to user behaviors to financial transactions.
