Informatica Corp. is expanding its line of data integration and governance tools for the Snowflake Computing Inc. data warehouse with today’s launch of serverless data integration pipelines, a portal for creating customer profiles and a collaborative marketplace of data analytics tools. Informatica, which is the largest pure-play data integration provider, has been steadily migrating its […]

Snowflake Inc. today introduced an array of new capabilities for its cloud data warehouse, including a developer tool called Snowpark that will enable companies to deploy custom data wrangling workflows on the platform. Snowflake went public in a blockbuster September listing that raised close to $4 billion. The company said in the regulatory filing for […]

Of the 19 tech companies that went public so far this year, 18 of them debuted at an average price of $23. The 19th company — Snowflake Inc. — opened at $120 and swiftly rose to set a record for the largest IPO by a U.S. software company in history. The company’s valuation, currently at […]

Yellowbrick Data Inc. today debuted a new release of its hybrid cloud data warehouse that it says will enable enterprises to build analytics workflows more easily and improve information security. The company also introduced an entry-level product tier for customers looking to analyze only a limited amount of information. Yellowbrick Data is a Snowflake Inc. competitor backed […]

In the course of managing 12 million requests for roadside an accident assistance across the U.S. each year, Agero Inc. crunches a lot of data. The contact center operation, including dispatch specialists, employs a team of data scientists to optimize the way service providers are deployed to deliver aid as quickly as possible to stranded […]

Snowflake Inc. will not grow into its heady valuation by simply stealing share from the on-premises data warehouse providers. Even if it got 100% of the data warehouse business, it wouldn’t come close to justifying its market cap. Instead, Snowflake must create an entirely new market based on completely changing the way organizations think about […]

Like a winter storm that suddenly comes down from a mountain and drops two feet of snow on a town’s unprepared residents, Snowflake Inc.’s eye-popping initial public offering in September became the largest U.S. software company IPO in history. Wasn’t the data warehouse market supposed to be dead? The company’s record-setting valuation, which recently hovered around $77 […]

Less than two years after taking the helm at Google Cloud, Chief Executive Thomas Kurian has made his playbook for competing with Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Azure clear: Build for a multicloud future, democratize analytics and press the advantage offered by BigQuery. That last strategy has proved to be a major factor in Google […]

Self-service analytics company Dremio Corp. today announced new technology that it claims can deliver sub-second query response times on cloud data lakes across thousands of concurrent users and queries. The startup is also rolling out new integrations with Microsoft Corp.’s Power BI and Tableau Software Inc.’s Tableau visualization software that enables the tools to be launched […]

When Snowflake Inc. went public this year, the move resulted in the biggest IPO debut for a software company in history. So, it is likely that the firm’s upcoming virtual Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2020 — starting Nov. 17 — will attract substantial interest. As the title indicates, a key focus of the Snowflake event will be […]

Snowflake Inc.’s initial public offering last week has eyes popping and the industry buzzing. We’ve had several dozen inbound public relations from firms trying to offer perspectives on the IPO of the data warehouse juggernaut so they can pitch us on their product. People are pumped up… and why not? An event like this doesn’t […]

A new class of workloads is emerging in the cloud. Early cloud was all about infrastructure-as-a-service — spinning up storage, compute and networking resources to support startups, application development and testing, software as a service and eventually moving more business workloads into the cloud. Today’s cloud workloads go beyond infrastructure services and are increasingly diverse. One […]