Snowflake Announces New Solution Partner Program

New program recognizes Snowflake implementation partners for their expertise, offering customers trusted partners to accelerate the benefits of Snowflake.

SAN MATEO, Calif. – Nov. 17, 2016 – Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, today announced the launch of its Snowflake Solution Partner Program. This new program recognizes qualified Snowflake partners who have demonstrated the skills and experience to implement solutions that leverage Snowflake technology while providing partners with training, resources, and collaboration to maximize their ability to leverage Snowflake technology.

The Snowflake Solution Partner Program helps Snowflake customers find qualified partners who can work with them to accelerate and maximize the benefits of Snowflake. Snowflake Solution Partners bring expertise in strategies, architectures, design principles, and best practices in big data and data analytics that ensure that customers can rapidly deploy Snowflake to help solve their data analytics challenges.

The Snowflake Solution Partner Program benefits for partners include the following (exact benefits depend on partner qualification type and status):

  • In-depth training on Snowflake technology, use cases, and best practices through Snowflake’s SnowCamp training curriculum.
  • Opportunities for joint marketing with Snowflake including joint branding, joint collateral, and marketing activities.
  • Resources to support implementation and go-to-market efforts.
  • Discounted access to Snowflake products for learning and development purposes.

“Our partners are a key link in helping our customers rapidly integrate Snowflake into their data solutions,” said Walter Aldana, vice president of alliances at Snowflake Computing. “The Snowflake Solution Partner Program allows our partners to demonstrate their skills and expertise, giving customers confidence that they can turn to these partners to accelerate and maximize the value they can achieve using Snowflake.”

“At Telltale we’re constantly evolving and innovating our data solutions. To succeed in that, we need to make sure that we can quickly and optimally deploy new solutions,” said Nate West, director of analytics at Telltale. “Working with a Snowflake Solution Partner helped us rapidly deploy and take full advantage of Snowflake, delivering a solution that accelerated the parsing of the JSON data received from game engines by over 50%.

Snowflake was founded with the vision of eliminating the barriers to data analytics. Snowflake’s data warehouse built for the cloud delivers the performance, concurrency, and simplicity needed to support today’s diverse data and analytics. It delivers the following innovations and capabilities that define a data warehouse built for the cloud:

  • Complete SQL database – Snowflake supports the tools millions of business users already know how to use today.
  • Zero management – Snowflake reduces complexity with built-in performance so there’s no infrastructure to tweak, no knobs to turn and no tuning required.
  • All of your data – Customers can analyze multiple petabytes of structured and semi-structured data (JSON, XML, AVRO) to quickly extract critical insight.
  • All of your users – An architecturally unlimited amount of concurrent users and applications can gain access without eroding performance thanks to Snowflake’s multi-cluster warehouse technology.
  • Pay only for what you use – Snowflake’s cloud-built solution scales storage separate from compute, up and down, transparently and automatically.

Learn more about the Snowflake Solution Partner Program online and apply to become a Snowflake Solution Partner at https://www.snowflake.com/partners/solutions-partners/.

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About Snowflake

Snowflake is the only data warehouse built for the cloud. Snowflake delivers the performance, concurrency and simplicity needed to store and analyze all of an organization’s data in one place. Snowflake’s technology combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Snowflake: Your data, no limits. Find out more at snowflake.com.

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SnapLogic and Snowflake Partner To Simplify and Accelerate Data Integration and Analytics in the Cloud

New SnapLogic Intelligent Connectors for the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse Seamlessly Connect All Applications and Data Sources for Faster Insights and Better Decisions

SAN MATEO, Calif. — November 16, 2016 — SnapLogic, the unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS), and Snowflake Computing, the data warehouse built for the cloud, today announced a new partnership to simplify and accelerate data integration and analytics in the cloud. The partnership includes technology integration and joint go-to-market activities to help organizations harness all data for new insights, better decisions and better business outcomes.

Available immediately, SnapLogic has introduced a series of new pre-built intelligent connectors – called Snaps – which provide fast, self-service data ingestion and transformation from virtually any application or data source to the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse. Timely, relevant data can then be quickly and easily analyzed using a variety of analytic tools.

The demands of the digital era have fundamentally changed the requirements for effective data integration and warehousing. Organizations need fast and easy access to all data – no matter the source, format or location. The combination of SnapLogic and Snowflake delivers a solution designed from the ground-up to be cloud-first, self-service, fully scalable and capable of handling all data. Customers using Snowflake and Snaplogic enjoy dramatic acceleration in time-to-value at a fraction of the cost by eliminating manual configuration, coding and tuning while bringing together diverse data and taking full advantage of the flexibility and scalability of the cloud.

“Speed, agility, ease-of-use, future-proof – this is what customers want from their software infrastructure and is a product vision shared by both SnapLogic and Snowflake,” said Craig Stewart, vice president of product management at SnapLogic. “Our cloud-native solutions, now fully integrated, remove any technical hurdles around data ingestion, preparation and delivery so our customers can instead focus on data analysis and business outcomes.”

Snowflake vice president of product management Matthew Glickman noted that a major customer challenge is bringing together data. “Customers want a better way to round up all their data, regardless of format or where it resides, so that they can get it into the hands of the user for analysis and decision making,” he said. “Snowflake’s unique architecture combined with SnapLogic’s cloud-based unified platform for both applications and data makes it possible for our customers to address this pain point with a simple, flexible solution built for the cloud.”

SnapLogic and Snowflake will be showcasing the partnership and demonstrating their products for customers, partners and prospects at the AWS re:Invent conference taking place from November 30 – December 2 in Las Vegas.

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About SnapLogic

SnapLogic is the industry’s first unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS). The SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform enables enterprises to connect to any source, at any speed, anywhere — whether on premises, in the cloud or in hybrid environments. The easy-to-use platform empowers self-service integrators, eliminates information silos, and provides a smooth on-ramp to big data. Founded by data industry veteran Gaurav Dhillon and backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Microsoft Corp., and Silver Lake Waterman, SnapLogic is helping companies across the Global 2000 to connect faster. Learn more at www.snaplogic.com.

 

About Snowflake

Snowflake is the only data warehouse built for the cloud. Snowflake delivers the performance, concurrency and simplicity to store and analyze all of an organization’s data in one place. Snowflake’s technology combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Snowflake: Your data, no limits. Find out more at snowflake.net.

 

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Snowflake Launches Data Warehouse War Only Customers Can Win

Lowest pricing, total data access and unmatched technology puts Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Redshift and Teradata on notice

SAN MATEO, Calif. – Oct. 20, 2016 – Snowflake Computing, the data warehouse built for the cloud, today announces a 75 percent storage price reduction, a new self-service option for customers and a data center expansion into Europe. Meanwhile, the traditional data warehouse vendors continue to engage in tit-for-tat pricing games and failed attempts to improve their legacy, “cloudified” technology. Snowflake continues to beat the competition with the best product. Now, it’s time to beat them with the best price.

Snowflake, the only data warehouse built for the cloud, continues to innovate at a pace that competitors with almost limitless resources can only dream about. Today, Snowflake announces the latest initiatives of its customer-centric strategy to advance its cloud-built data warehouse as the optimal and only place organizations need to store and analyze all of their data:

  • Snowflake drops its cloud storage pricing to the baseline price of Amazon S3 – Snowflake’s cloud storage provider. This makes Snowflake the most affordable data warehouse in the world. Although price wars between big vendors have yielded significant reductions over the past six years, no vendor has lowered the storage price for a data warehouse to match the cost of cloud object storage. Snowflake’s compressed storage price is now as low as $30/TB/month – a 75 percent storage savings for customers. Organizations no longer have a cost barrier to storing, accessing and analyzing all of their data in one location.
  • Snowflake On Demand™, a complete self-service offering, launches in November. Customers can onboard quickly and easily with a virtual swipe of a credit card for access to Snowflake’s fully automated, cloud-built data warehouse. Snowflake On Demand enables any organization of any size to effortlessly enable Snowflake. Once up and running, customers can independently scale up and down their compute and storage, paying only for what they use. Organizations no longer have an access barrier to storing and analyzing all their data.
  • Snowflake’s rapid growth now includes a new cloud deployment of Snowflake in the EU (Frankfurt) region. Demand for Snowflake’s cloud-built data warehouse has surged to include multinational customers with EU operations and EU-headquartered companies. Customers with operations in the EU now get to store their data locally and enjoy fast, low latency access. Organizations that want the highest level of control over their data, and the fastest response from their solutions, now have the option to store their data in the EU.

All of these new offerings will be available in November.

“Snowflake emerged after decades of disappointment from legacy and ‘cloudified’ data warehouse vendors,” Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia said. “By cloudifying their systems and squabbling for years over price, they lost sight of their priorities – the customer. Snowflake delivers the price, access and geographic coverage customers need to easily and affordably extract actionable insight from all of their data by all of their users.”

Snowflake’s three new milestones build on the following innovations that break down technology and architecture barriers that organizations still experience with other data warehouse vendors. Only Snowflake has achieved all five of these defining qualities of a data warehouse built for the cloud:

  • Complete SQL database – Snowflake supports the tools millions of business users already know how to use today.
  • Zero management – Snowflake reduces complexity with built-in performance so there’s no infrastructure to tweak, no knobs to turn and no tuning required.
  • All of your data – Customers can analyze multiple petabytes of structured and semi-structured data (JSON, XML, AVRO) to quickly extract critical insight.
  • All of your users – An architecturally unlimited amount of concurrent users and applications can gain access without eroding performance thanks to Snowflake’s multi-cluster warehouse technology.
  • Pay only for what you use – Snowflake’s cloud-built solution scales storage separate from compute, up and down, transparently and automatically.

For more details on all of Snowflake’s newest initiatives, view Snowflake’s individual announcements on price, access and geography. You can also view a personal message from Snowflake’s CEO Bob Muglia – video.

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About Snowflake

Snowflake is the only data warehouse built for the cloud. Snowflake delivers the performance, concurrency and simplicity needed to store and analyze all of an organization’s data in one location. Snowflake’s technology combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Snowflake: Your data, no limits. Find out more at snowflake.net.

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Companies Choose Cloud Analytics to Address Failed Data Initiatives

Independent research reveals 88 percent of professionals have recently endured failed data analytics projects; More than half say existing analytics infrastructure is too inflexible and find compelling benefits in cloud solutions

SAN MATEO, Calif. – Sept. 26, 2016 – Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, revealed today that an overwhelming interest in data analytics has been overshadowed by organizations struggling with failed projects and looking for better solutions. Eighty-eight percent of surveyed data professionals and senior executives responsible for data initiatives said their projects failed because of low end-user adoption, projects went well over budget, the system didn’t provide the analytics users were expecting, and too many initiatives evolved into “zombie” projects that were almost completed but not ready for end-users. Survey respondents also said the complexity and inflexibility of their existing technology infrastructure was a barrier to delivering the analytics they desired.

The findings emerged from a new study by Dimensional Research, “Data Analytics: Beyond the Hype,” commissioned by Snowflake. The goal of the study was to understand current experiences, challenges and trends associated with data analytics initiatives. The findings reveal a significant gap between the insight professionals hoped to get from their projects and the end result.

“The importance of data analytics to organizations is universally recognized; yet, very few organizations have avoided significant issues with critical data analytics initiatives,” said Diane Hagglund, principal at Dimensional Research. “Executives in particular are recognizing that the complexity and inflexibility of their existing solutions has become a significant barrier to analytics success.”

Just over half of data professionals, 51 percent, identified their company’s existing data and analytics architecture as a barrier to achieving project success. Other underlying barriers included the inability to find the right expertise and taking too long to access data sources for their analytics. At the same time, 53 percent have adopted cloud analytics and another 26 percent are considering their options. Fewer than one in five companies have no plans to adopt cloud analytics.

“How easily and cost-effectively a company can acquire insight from all of its data will determine its success in today’s data-driven economy,” Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia said. “Only a data warehouse built for the cloud can address complexity, performance and cost barriers, and unlock the full value of data.”

Nearly all of the professionals surveyed, 99 percent, acknowledged the potential benefits of a cloud-based solution. They also listed the following functionality that could improve their current data environment:

  • Implement and deploy faster
  • Significantly reduce the time to make data available for analysis
  • Reduce the overhead of managing infrastructure
  • Combine diverse data in one place
  • Scale up and down rapidly
  • Create a more secure environment
  • Have a more secure environment

The report found that all data professionals surveyed said data analytics were important to their business. Among the executives polled, 48 percent characterized data analytics as critical to their organization. The goals of their data analytics initiatives over the past two years focused on: increasing operational efficiencies, informing strategic decision-making, enabling growth, managing costs and responding to competitive pressure.

The Dimensional Research report, sponsored by Snowflake, was conducted in August 2016 and included more than 375 individuals, including over 100 executives, responsible for data initiatives. The goal of the survey was to understand current experiences, challenges and trends related to data analytics initiatives.

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Snowflake Computing is the only data warehouse built for the cloud. Snowflake delivers the performance, concurrency and simplicity to store and analyze all of an organization’s data in one location. Snowflake’s technology combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Snowflake: Your data, no limits. Find out more at snowflake.net.

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Snowflake Computing Achieves AWS Big Data Competency Partner Status

AWS Recognizes Snowflake for Proven Customer Success and Technology Proficiency of its Big Data Analytics Service Running on AWS

SAN MATEO, Calif. – Aug. 10, 2016Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, today announced that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Big Data Competency in Advanced Analytics. This achievement builds on the work that Snowflake has done to provide all types of companies with trusted, cloud-based solutions to store and analyze important data on AWS.

The AWS Competency program highlights AWS Partner Network (APN) members that have passed a rigorous audit of their security, architecture and customer adoption, and have exhibited proven success supporting customers evaluating and using big data tools, techniques, and technologies on AWS.

Snowflake’s Elastic Data Warehouse is built on AWS, from the ground up, to meet the data and analytic needs of today’s companies. Snowflake’s unique architecture makes it possible to automate infrastructure, management and optimization so organizations can focus on using their data instead of managing technology. Snowflake’s native support for diverse data, both structured and semi-structured, gives analysts direct access to deep business intelligence without sacrificing flexibility or performance. The company delivers all of this at a dramatically lower cost than traditional on-premises data warehouse solutions, providing a compelling reason to take advantage of the cloud for big data analytics.

Snowflake’s continued product innovation, market adoption and growing ecosystem of partners have fueled the company’s ongoing success and rapid growth.

“Snowflake on AWS offers customers frustrated by the limitations of legacy data warehousing a compelling alternative for storing and processing data,” said Jon Bock, vice president of products and marketing at Snowflake. “We’re thrilled to be part of the AWS Big Data Competency. The market adoption of our cloud-native solution on AWS demonstrates that Snowflake addresses a large and growing pain for organizations.”

Join Snowflake, AWS and customer IAC Publishing Labs to learn how a cloud data warehouse delivered a solution to the challenges faced by the business intelligence and analytics team at IAC’s Ask.com brand. Register now at https://bit.ly/2b4ErM8.

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About Snowflake

Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, has reinvented the data warehouse for the cloud and today’s data. The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse is built from the cloud up with a patent-pending new architecture that delivers the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud – at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Snowflake can be found online at snowflake.net.

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Snowflake Computing Concludes Historic Year With Recognition for its Elastic Data Warehouse in the Cloud

Company Cited as a Strong Performer by Independent Research Firm

SAN MATEO, Calif. – Dec. 16, 2015 – Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, concluded 2015 with tremendous growth, customer momentum and accelerating adoption of its cloud-based elastic data warehouse. Additionally, Snowflake has been named a Strong Performer in “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Warehouse, Q4 2015” report by Forrester Research, Inc. Snowflake was among the select companies invited to participate in the independent report, which evaluated the 10 most significant Enterprise Data Warehouse software and service providers across 31 criteria. Forrester noted Snowflake for “offering a highly automated platform that makes loading, unloading, and administration simpler.”

The recognition tops off a momentous year of significant milestones and tremendous growth for Snowflake. Some of these achievements include a new round of funding to propel company growth and company expansion, general availability of its Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse™, new executive hires to accelerate and support the company’s development, numerous industry accolades and rapid customer adoption.

The growing interest in cloud infrastructure and increasing need for a dramatically superior solution than current software services validates Snowflake’s market opportunity. This attention towards the cloud requires traditional IT to reexamine its data warehousing technology. Snowflake has zeroed in on this opportunity – developing a completely new elastic data warehouse specifically for the cloud that is low-cost and scalable, going beyond the limits of today’s traditional data warehouses and big data platforms.

2015 Corporate and Product Milestones

  • Secured $45M in Series C Funding, led by new investor Altimeter Capital with participation of existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and Wing Ventures.
  • Announced general availability of the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse, the first data warehouse designed from the start for the cloud. The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse provides a unique architecture that delivers the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud – at a fraction of the cost of other solutions.
  • Received some of the industry’s premier accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor in DBMS for 2015, one of CRN’s Emerging Big Data Vendors, Gold Stevie Winner in the ‘New Product of the Year – Software’ category, first place finish in this year’s Strata + Hadoop World Startup Showcase for its Snowflake Elastic Warehouse and a Database Trends & Applications Trend Setting Product for 2016.
  • Expanded executive team with the addition of Vice President of Product Management, Matt Glickman – former managing director at Goldman Sachs where he led the development of business-critical analytics platforms and was responsible for the entire data platform of Goldman’s $1 trillion asset management business.
  • Announced new customers innovating with Snowflake including video gaming leader, KIXEYE, pioneer and leader of online shopping rewards, MyPoints, and SOASTA, a leader in performance analytics.
  • Received ‘best places to work’ recognition from the San Francisco Business Times and San Jose Mercury News as a Bay Area best place to work, highlighting the unique and motivating culture Snowflake provides its employees.
  • Moved to new corporate headquarters in San Mateo, Calif. to support the company’s growth and increase its ability to attract top talent from across the Bay Area.

“This past year was transformative for Snowflake and for customers who are struggling to find answers to their data challenges. Effective analysis of data is a business imperative but existing solutions are inadequate. Customers are demanding a different approach and Snowflake’s unique Elastic Data Warehouse is the only solution that can solve today’s complex data challenges using broadly available skills and at a reasonable cost.” said Bob Muglia, CEO of Snowflake. “Moving forward, we will continue to focus on the delivery of our turnkey service that can analyze petabytes of data using the tools people know and love at a fraction of the cost and complexity of other products. The era of Data Warehousing as a cloud service has arrived and Snowflake is making it happen.”


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About Snowflake
Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, was founded in 2012 by a team of experts who hold over 120 patents in the fields of database architecture, data warehouses, query optimization and parallelization. Snowflake was created with the vision to reinvent the data warehouse, bringing together all users, all data and all workloads in a single repository. The company is backed by leading investors including Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and Wing Ventures. Snowflake is headquartered in Silicon Valley and can be found online at www.snowflake.com.

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Snowflake Computing to Sponsor, Present and Exhibit at DBTA Data Summit 2015

SAN MATEO, Calif. – May 7, 2015Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, today announced it will sponsor, present and exhibit at DBTA Data Summit 2015. Focused on the future of data management and the strategies needed to succeed in today’s increasingly data-drive world, the conference will be held May 11-13 at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York.

Snowflake will showcase and provide live demonstrations of the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse™, a completely new SQL data warehouse built from the ground up as a cloud service, in the Data Solutions Showcase. Visitors will learn more about Snowflake’s patent-pending architecture and cloud data warehousing from Snowflake experts.

In addition, Snowflake will be presenting in two sessions at the Data Summit. Snowflake will be providing an introduction to the elastic data warehouse on Tuesday, May 12 at 12 p.m. in Sutton South, second floor.

The second session, “Moving to the Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities,” will focus on the opportunities and challenges in leveraging the cloud for data warehousing. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, May 13 at 3 p.m. in Sutton South, second floor.

Details-at-a-glance

What: Snowflake Overview
Who: Greg Rahn, director of product management at Snowflake Computing
When: Tuesday, May 12 at 12 – 12:45 p.m. EDT
Where: Sutton South, second floor

What: “Moving to the Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities”
Who: Greg Rahn, director of product management at Snowflake Computing
When: Wednesday, May 13 at 3:00 – 3:45 p.m. EDT
Where: Sutton South, second floor

See what customers are talking about
Visitors to the Data Solutions Showcase will see the cloud data warehouse that customers, such as Kixeye and White Ops, are using to gain fast access to and insights from their business data. Visitors will be able to have one-on-one conversations with the Snowflake team and will also be eligible to win great prizes.

Connect with Snowflake

To schedule one-on-one meetings with Snowflake executives or to schedule a demo, contact [email protected].

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Snowflake is hiring: https://www.snowflake.com/about/careers

About Snowflake

Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, was founded in 2012 by a team of experts who hold over 120 patents in the fields of database architecture, data warehouses, query optimization and parallelization. Snowflake was created with the vision to reinvent the data warehouse, bringing together all users, all data and all workloads in a single repository. The company is backed by leading investors including Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and Wing Ventures. Snowflake is headquartered in Silicon Valley and can be found online at www.snowflake.com

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Kulesa Faul for Snowflake Computing
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