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For the past two years, Snowflake and Talend have joined forces developing deep integration capabilities and high-performance connectors so that companies can easily move legacy on-premises data to a built-for-the-cloud data warehouse. Snowflake, which runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a modern data-warehouse-as-a-service built from the ground up for the cloud, for all an enterprise’s data, and all their users.

Today on July 19, we released Talend Summer ’18, which is jam-packed with cloud features and capabilities.

Digital Transformation, the application of digital capabilities across the organization to uncover new monetization opportunities, is the path that any company wishing to survive in today’s world must follow. Sectors like agriculture, healthcare, banking, retail, and transportation are exploring challenges and opportunities that have come with the digital revolution. As a result of this, new business models have emerged while IT departments have become the focus of digital transformation.

Cloud-based platforms have become a standard component within most enterprise IT infrastructures, however, many organizations find they cannot source everything they need from a single provider. As a result, increasing numbers are adopting a multi-cloud strategy in an effort to better meet their business requirements.

With the growing adoption of cloud-based IT infrastructures, the proliferation of mobile and IoT devices, and the rise of social media, companies of all sizes, across all industries are amassing huge quantities of data in differing variety, velocity, veracity and validity.

Formed in 2016, Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) is the world’s largest publicly quoted sports betting and gaming company, bringing “excitement to life” for five million customers worldwide. The merger of Paddy Power and Betfair in 2016 created an additional data challenge for an already highly data-driven organization. The merged company had to bring together 70TB of data, from dozens of sources, into an integrated platform.

Recently I found myself in a predicament that many of you can relate to, trying to update an aging application that has become too difficult to manage and too costly to continue operating. As we started to talk about what to do, we concluded it was time to start decomposing that application into smaller more manageable pieces.

Visual Studio Team Services is a one-stop-shop for managing source code, custom packages, agile workflow, and continuous integration. Having recently released our VSTS extension for Ghost Inspector, I thought it would be a fun idea to test and deploy an app with a Microsoft toolchain, namely Visual Studio Team Services, Microsoft Azure, and Ghost Inspector using our new extension.