Many data providers who participate in Snowflake Data Marketplace are already using Snowflake Cloud Data Platform as their primary data store, and they can share secure slices of their data via Global Snowflake, Snowflake’s global data sharing feature, with any other Snowflake consumer regardless of which cloud or Snowflake region each is using. But other potential data providers, especially data enrichment companies, are not yet using Snowflake themselves.

The government's COVID-19 response is a good example of failed leadership from a data perspective. While government officials have access to a huge amount of data to help them make decisions they’ve fundamentally failed to use it to take people on a journey. There’s a huge lesson that businesses can learn from this on how to use data to change behaviors. What we’ve seen is governments responding to the outbreak at a very simplistic level.

Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from Unity Technologies, which offers a development platform for gaming, architecture, film and other industries. Here, Director of Engineering and Data Sampsa Jaatinen shares valuable insights for modern technology decision makers, whatever industry they’re in.

Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Data Center(DC) is the on-premises release of Cloudera Data Platform. CDP DC combines the best services and components from Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub and Hortonworks Data Platform Enterprise along with new features and enhancements across the stack to deliver the premier on-premises enterprise data platform . This unified distribution is a scalable and customizable platform where you can securely run many types of workloads.