Key features include expansion of Snowflake
Data Marketplace, unveiling of Snowpark developer experience,
support for unstructured data, and new data governance
technology
Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), creator of the Data Cloud, today
announced new features that will deliver even more value for
customers. The Data Cloud is a global network where thousands of
organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency,
and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations can unite
their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed
data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. The new features
announced today will enable Snowflake customers to work with more
types of data, have a more powerful developer experience, deliver
more control over data, and access data services within the Data
Cloud.
The speed at which data is generated continues to increase but
the proliferation of data silos means organizations can access only
a small proportion of data inside or outside their businesses.
Snowflake created the Data Cloud to unlock the value of data by
eliminating on-premises and cloud-generated data silos created
within organizations and across their subsidiaries, business
ecosystems, geographies, and the one or more public cloud providers
they use.
“Data is central to how we run our lives, businesses, and
institutions,” Snowflake Co-Founder and President of Products,
Benoit Dageville said. “Many of today’s organizations still
struggle to mobilize all of their data in service of their
enterprise. The Data Cloud contains a massive amount of data from
Snowflake customers and commercial data providers, creating a
powerful global data network effect for mobilizing data to drive
innovation and create new revenue streams.”
Today, Snowflake announced new features, including:
Snowpark – A new developer experience that will allow
data engineers, data scientists, and developers to write code in
their languages of choice, using familiar programming concepts, and
then execute workloads such as ETL/ELT, data preparation, and
feature engineering on Snowflake. This simplifies an organization’s
IT architecture by bringing more data pipelines into Snowflake’s
single, governed core data platform. By doing so, data
professionals seamlessly leverage the scalability, performance,
security, and near-zero maintenance benefits of Snowflake. Snowpark
will enable developers to leverage existing skill sets, improve
team productivity, reduce cost with fewer systems in a customer’s
architecture, and extend Snowflake’s capabilities for additional
data engineering and data science use cases. Snowpark is currently
available in testing environments only.
Data Services on Snowflake Data Marketplace –
Snowflake Data Marketplace enables any Snowflake customer to
discover and access live, ready-to-query, third-party data sets
from more than 100 data providers, without needing to copy files or
move the data. Announced today, the marketplace now also features
data service providers. A Snowflake Data Marketplace user can
create live, secure, and bi-directional access to the data they
want a service provider to perform a range of data enrichment
services on, such as running risk assessments on a customer’s data,
augmenting a data set with behavioral scoring, or simply
outsourcing the more advanced analysis such as predictive and
prescriptive data analysis.
Unstructured Data – The portion of the world's data that
is unstructured is quickly increasing. In addition to structured
and semi-structured data, Snowflake announced support for
unstructured data such as audio, video, pdfs, imaging data and more
– which will provide the ability to orchestrate pipeline executions
of that data. Unstructured data management in Snowflake means
customers will be able to avoid accessing and managing multiple
systems, deploy fine-grained governance over unstructured files and
metadata, and discover new revenue opportunities thanks to gaining
more complete insights. This feature is currently in private
preview.
Row Access Policies – Customers will be able to advance
their data governance across all data objects and workloads in
Snowflake. Row access policies will give Snowflake customers the
ability to create policies for restricting returned result sets
when queries are executed. By creating an umbrella policy to
restrict access, users will no longer need to worry about ensuring
their queries contain all the right constraints, and security
administrators can ensure policies are applied across all workloads
running on the platform. For example, an organization's security
team can easily implement a policy that returns to its sales reps
only the rows of customer data they need to see and not customer
data associated with other sales reps. Row access policies are
designed to mitigate risk, improve governance, and help
organizations better adhere to regional and industry-specific data
privacy regulations. Snowflake’s row access policies feature is
expected to be in private preview later this year.
"With Snowflake, we are able to let business units at Emirates
do their own ingestion, create their own models, and the governance
around it,” Emirates Program Director, Naveed Memon said. “This was
never a possibility before, and has brought our IT self-service
capability to a completely different level."
“Snowflake’s platform enables organizations to leverage the
power of the Data Cloud regardless of which supported public cloud
they use, or where an organization’s data or users are located,”
Snowflake’s Senior Vice President of Product, Christian Kleinerman
said. “The new features announced today are another example of
Snowflake’s commitment to delivering the technology customers need
to fully mobilize their data and achieve meaningful business
value.”
To learn more about Snowflake’s vision for the Data Cloud, visit
the Snowflake blog.
About Snowflake
Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — a global network where
thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale,
concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations
unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share
governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever
data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless
experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is
the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud,
creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data
engineering, data science, data application development, and data
sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers
already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the Data Cloud.
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