Snowflake and Data Cloud Phenomenon: Foley on Data

The Big Themes:

• Fundamental and important to the model: Data lakes, data hubs, data warehouses, data marketplaces – that’s a lot of data.
• Snowflake has popularized the concept: Other vendors are latching onto it – you could argue it is kind of revolutionizing that whole model.
• Google announced Dataplex: A data fabric for integration, and they also announced an analytics hub for data sharing and analytics, and sharing insights into the data stream.
• A definition of cloud computing: Still holds up to the light of day after 13 years – including databases and data sources across an enterprise.

The Big Quotes:

“So my working headline here is, ‘What is a data cloud?’ I've been hearing the term ‘data cloud’ a lot recently.”

“I think that plumbing is involved, but it's less about plumbing and more about business strategy.”

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