Cloud Computing: Snowflake Computing opens data warehouse to the masses
June 24, 2015
Grazed from PCWorld. Author: Blair Hanley Frank.
Snowflake Computing announced Tuesday that its cloud-based data warehouse service is available to all users. Called the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse, the service allows companies to pool all their data and workloads in a single warehouse that can be accessed by all their users. The warehouse is designed to handle administrative tasks for many of its users, like automatically scaling to match a company’s demands and handling hardware provisioning by itself so that administrators don’t need to spend as much time managing it.
In addition, Snowflake’s service is capable of taking in both structured and semi-structured data, without requiring users to ensure that it’s all in one format before uploading to the warehouse…
The data warehouse will also automatically optimize itself based on data usage. So far, the company has picked up several high-profile customers for its service, including Adobe, Condé Nast and International Gaming Technology’s DoubleDown Interactive division…
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