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How Snowflake Accelerates Business Growth for Providers of Data, Apps and AI Products

Let’s say you are building a house that you plan to put up for sale. You focus on an amazing design, beautiful entry, large windows for plenty of sunlight — things that will create a delightful experience for your future buyer. At the same time, the house also needs less glamorous but vitally important infrastructure, like plumbing, running water, electricity, heating, cooling and so on.

Snowflake Cortex AI Launches Cortex Guard to Implement LLM Safeguards

Over the last year, as Snowflake has focused on putting AI tools in the hands of its customers, we have prioritized easy, efficient and safe enterprise generative AI. With that in mind, we’re happy to announce the general availability of safety guardrails for Snowflake Cortex AI with Cortex Guard, a new feature that enables enterprises to easily implement safeguards that filter out potentially inappropriate or unsafe large language model (LLM) responses.

Unravel a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Data Observability Tools

Unravel Data, the first AI-enabled data actionability and FinOps platform built to address the speed and scale of modern data platforms, today announced it has been named in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Data Observability Tools. According to Gartner, “By 2026, 50% of enterprises implementing distributed data architectures will have adopted data observability tools to improve visibility over the state of the data landscape, up from less than 20% in 2024.

Zero Downtime Upgrades - Redefining Your Platform Upgrade Experience

Cloudera recently unveiled the latest version of Cloudera Private Cloud Base with the Zero Downtime Upgrade (ZDU) feature to enhance your user experience. The goal of ZDU is to make upgrades simpler for you and your stakeholders by increasing the availability of Cloudera’s services.

Special Episode: Data lakes drive next-gen AI infrastructure | MotherDuck

Get ready to think differently about modern data architectures as we sit down with George Fraser, CEO of Fivetran, and Jordan Tagani, CEO of MotherDuck, to explore recent evolutions of data management. They discuss MotherDuck’s innovative new connector built with Fivetran’s Partner SDK, reveal why local data processing on modern laptops is disrupting cloud-based processing and share insights on deploying AI workloads on data lakes.

Breaking Down Data Silos With Cloud-Based Architecture: A Conversation With Kallol Dutta, Spark NZ

In this episode of "The Data Cloud Podcast," Kallol Dutta, Head of Transformation at Spark NZ, talks about the idea of the minimum viable data concept, Spark New Zealand’s vision for becoming a cloud software company, and why he considers himself a techno-optimist.

How to Capture Logs for a Simba ODBC Driver in Windows, macOS, or Linux

This video provides a step-by-step guide on capturing logs for a Simba ODBC driver across different operating systems: Windows, macOS, and Linux. Whether you’re configuring your driver on a personal computer or in a server environment, this tutorial will help you effectively monitor and troubleshoot any potential problems.

Accelerate your data streaming journey with the latest in Confluent Cloud

The Q2 2024 Confluent Cloud launch introduces a suite of enhancements across the four key pillars of a Data Streaming Platform - Stream, Connect, Process, and Govern – alongside some significant work we have been doing with our partner ecosystem to help customers unlock new possibilities. Confluent has helped over 4,900+ global enterprises start their data streaming journey and was recently named a Leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023.