Snowflake Blog

When Thierry Cruanes and I co-founded Snowflake in the summer of 2012, we decided Snowflake Cloud Data Platform would be built on top of the infrastructure provided by the public clouds. From day...

At Snowflake, we are relentlessly focused on our customers and on creating innovative technology to better serve their needs. Today marks another milestone where we demonstrate such focus. In this...

Snowflake Cloud Data Platform delivers data governance that traditional data lakes do not. However, customers still need to respond to demand from their business users with agility and speed,...

This blog post series will put you in the mind of a defender. In cybersecurity, being a good defender means thinking like an attacker. Part 1 of this blog will focus on understanding why service...

In the first part of this series, my esteemed colleague, Robert Fehrmann, demonstrated how to create vast amounts of data in Snowflake using standard SQL statements. In the second part of this...

Justin Langseth, Snowflake’s Data Exchange CTO, sat down with Adam Fisher, Demyst Data’s SVP, Product and Data Strategy, to talk about the role of external data in improving data analytics, the...

All 58 counties in California and many state agencies now have seamless access to data to help battle the COVID-19 outbreak and help prevent future outbreaks once state and local governments relax...

Financial institutions are embarking on digital transformation journeys and migrating to the cloud. These strategies help them maintain a competitive edge during tough economic times and enable...

We had the pleasure of talking with Mark Gibbas, CEO of Weather Source. Justin Langseth, Data Exchange CTO at Snowflake, interviewed Gibbas and discussed how different types of weather datasets...

Justin Langseth, Data Exchange CTO, recently interviewed Bryan Lenker from FactSet. Lenker is VP, Director of Client Technology and Solutions, and helped us understand how financial services...

Job listings data can provide tremendous insight into the corporate strategies of individual companies. By tracking the job listings posted by companies each day, you can gain perspective into a...

To survive in today’s economic climate, retailers, consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers, and ecommerce companies need the power to leverage data available from sources such as online and...

As a platform, Snowflake supports your data modeling technique of choice including Data Vault, Kimball dimensional modeling, Inmon, some combination of techniques, or whatever you choose to build...

A coalition of leading healthcare companies have joined forces, and will join their data, to create the potentially largest healthcare data repository ever. The COVID-19 Research Database will be...

The global impact of the novel coronavirus has been severe. But revealing what will happen next, how we can respond in advance, and what will be our new norm has put one resource at the core of...

Weather Source is a data provider on Snowflake Data Marketplace. It has made available a new data set to help organizations understand how weather impacts the spread of coronavirus. The COVID-19...

An interesting aspect of being a security specialist in a cloud data platform company is I often sit in meetings listening to conversations I don’t fully understand until it’s my turn to speak. A...