Snowflake and Data Cloud Phenomenon: Foley on Data

The Big Themes:



Fundamental and important to the model: Data
lakes, data hubs, data warehouses, data marketplaces – that’s a
lot of data.


Snowflake has popularized the concept: Other
vendors are latching onto it – you could argue it is kind of
revolutionizing that whole model.


Google announced Dataplex: A data fabric for
integration, and they also announced an analytics hub for data
sharing and analytics, and sharing insights into the data
stream.


A definition of cloud computing: Still holds
up to the light of day after 13 years – including databases and
data sources across an enterprise.



 


The Big Quotes:


“So my working headline here is, ‘What is a data cloud?’ I've
been hearing the term ‘data cloud’ a lot recently.”


 


“I think that plumbing is involved, but it's less about plumbing
and more about business strategy.”


 


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