February brought a number of exciting enhancements, especially for customers building and running data pipelines in Snowflake, including support for Snowpark stored procedures and flexible task execution. Additionally, customers get improved impact analysis through support for object dependencies, and we continue to expand Snowflake’s global reach with the regional availability of UAE North (Dubai) on Azure. Read on for more!
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.
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.
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.
Over the past few years, we’ve seen incredible growth in the number of data apps being built on Snowflake, including large customer-facing apps from companies such as BlackRock, Instacart, Lacework, and others. We’re proud of the fact that our platform helps developers bring these applications to life faster, scale better, and provide more powerful insights to their users, whether they be employees, partners, or customers.
