As a BI Analyst, have you ever encountered a dashboard that wouldn’t refresh because other teams were using it? As a data scientist, have you ever had to wait 6 months before you could access the latest version of Spark? As an application architect, have you ever been asked to wait 12 weeks before you could get hardware to onboard a new application?

Companies realize that in order to grow, connect products and services, or protect their business, they need to become data-driven. In selecting the tools to realize these goals, organizations effectively have two choices: a self-selected combination of analytics tools and applications or a unified platform that handles all. In this blog we will discuss the challenges of the former choice that will provide justification for the latter.

One thing nearly all such data providers have is a REST API. Snowflake’s recently announced external functions capability allows Snowflake accounts to call external APIs. By using external functions, data enrichment providers can fulfill requests for data from Snowflake Data Marketplace consumers.

Apache Hadoop-Ozone is a new-era object storage solution for Big Data platform. It is scalable with strong consistency. Ozone uses Raft protocol, implemented by Apache Ratis (Incubating), to achieve high availability in its distributed system. My team in Tencent started to introduce Ozone as a backend object storage in production a few months ago and we’re onboarding more and more data warehouse users.

This interview was conducted by Cindy Maike, VP Industry Solutions The shift towards Industry 4.0 is improving manufacturing efficiency and the factory of the future will increasingly be driven by technology like the Internet of Things (IoT), Automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Cloud Computing.

Wire encryption protects data in motion, and Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the most widely used security protocol for wire encryption. TLS provides authentication, privacy and data integrity between applications communicating over a network by encrypting the packets transmitted between endpoints. Users interact with Hadoop clusters via browser or command line tools, while applications use REST APIs or Thrift.

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.