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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.

Meta's Llama 3.1 405B Now Available for Enterprise App Development in Snowflake Cortex AI

Today, Snowflake is excited to announce that the Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual large language models (LLMs) are now available in Snowflake Cortex AI, providing enterprises with secure, serverless access to Meta’s most advanced open source model. Snowflake offers the largest context window of any vendor, at 128k, for the Llama 3.1 collection of models.

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.

Getting the Most From Your Modern Data Platform: A Three-Phase Approach

A robust, modern data platform is the starting point for your organization’s data and analytics vision. At first, you may use your modern data platform as a single source of truth to realize operational gains — but you can realize far greater benefits by adding additional use cases. In this blog, we offer guidance for leveraging Snowflake’s capabilities around data and AI to build apps and unlock innovation.

From Potential Disaster To Driver of Change... Data Execs Share Their Journeys To Effective AI

A potential recipe for disaster proved to be the focus of every data executive’s agenda over the last year. A year ago many data leaders were caught off-guard. Employees embraced new gen AI tools with fervor, driving interest in all AI initiatives. Generative AI had penetrated the enterprise, with gen AI positioned in the Peak Of Inflated Expectation segment on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial IntelligenceI, 20231.

Leverage Trusted Data: Alation Data Intelligence Platform

Nick Jewell, Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager at Alation, demonstrates how to use the Alation Data Intelligence Platform to easily find, understand, and use trusted data.The demo focuses on how data engineers, data governors, and data users can leverage Alation and Snowflake Horizon to more efficiently ingest, monitor, and share governed data.

Demo Of The Snowflake Connector For MySQL And PostgreSQL

The Snowflake Connector for MySQL and PostgreSQL provides instant access to your data within Snowflake, making it easy to correlate your data with data from other sources, ultimately driving new insights into business operations. The Connector also leverages Snowflake’s built-in security and reliability capabilities and provides IT departments with significant cost and speed advantages. During this demo, you will see how you can set-up, configure, and utilize the Connector with a few clicks via Snowflake Marketplace.

Data Strategies Map a Journey From Origin To Destination

There is a scene in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation where Tom Cruise is hanging onto the outside of a jet as it has taken off. And while, yes, he’s going with it, he’s not really on board or in control. Some data executives feel like that. It’s not enough to establish goals — or, the destination in this metaphor. The data strategy must provide a flight plan for making sure you get there — on time, on budget and, of course, safely on board.