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What's New: New Apache Iceberg Features Ease the Pain Of Managing Your Data Lake

Are you struggling with the challenges of managing your data lake as you strive to address issues ranging from security headaches to troubleshooting complex pipelines? This BUILD 2024 session addresses those challenges with a look at how Snowflake makes it easier to onboard Apache Iceberg into your data lake. The session dives into new features that simplify security, streamline data ingestion and transformation, and enhance integration with your existing tools. You’ll also see how Snowflake provides enterprise-grade redundancy to the data lakehouse architecture, making it easier for teams to work together globally.

What's New: Supercharge Users With The Snowflake Horizon Catalog

To accelerate development, organizations need to supercharge more users to immediately discover and collaborate on relevant data, apps, and models. At the same time, organizations must ensure the platform they work on is secure and that the right people have the right access. Protecting sensitive and/or Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is critical. The Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides built-in governance and discovery for the AI Data Cloud to make all of this easy.

How to migrate from Kafka to Confluent Cloud with limited downtime

In this short video, a Confluent Solutions Engineering will run through the high-level steps on how to get started with your migration. And even better, once you’re done watching, you can download our comprehensive migration kit for a step by step guide of everything I’ve talked about and more.

EP 1: Exploring the Dark Ages of Data with R "Ray" Wang

Companies have access to more data than ever before – according to IDC, worldwide data will grow 61% by 2025. However, when it comes to adopting AI, there is a difference between companies who merely have internal data and those who have precise, accurate data. The first step to delivering trusted AI is having the right type of data. R "Ray" Wang, principal analyst and founder of Constellation Research, joins The AI Forecast to discuss the value of precision data as we enter what he calls “the dark ages of data”.

Introducing Lenses 6.0 Panoptes

Organizations today face complex data challenges as they scale, with more distributed data architectures and a growing number of teams building streaming applications. They will need to implement Data Mesh principles for sharing data across business domains, ensure data sovereignty across different jurisdictions and clouds, and maintain real-time operations.

9 Best Practices for Transitioning From On-Premises to Cloud with Snowflake

On a day-to-day basis, Snowflake teams identify opportunities and help customers implement recommended best practices that ease the migration process from on-premises to the cloud. They also monitor potential challenges and advise on proven patterns to help ensure a successful data migration. This article highlights nine key areas to watch out for and plan around in order to accelerate a smooth transition to the cloud.