Snowflake and Data Cloud Phenomenon: Foley on Data

<p>The Big Themes:</p><ul><li><strong>Fundamental and important to the model:</strong> Data lakes, data hubs, data warehouses, data marketplaces – that’s a lot of data.</li><li><strong>Snowflake has popularized the concept:</strong> Other vendors are latching onto it – you could argue it is kind of revolutionizing that whole model.</li><li><strong>Google announced Dataplex:</strong> A data fabric for integration, and they also announced an analytics hub for data sharing and analytics, and sharing insights into the data stream.</li><li><strong>A definition of cloud computing:</strong> Still holds up to the light of day after 13 years – including databases and data sources across an enterprise.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Big Quotes:</p><p>“So my working headline here is, ‘What is a data cloud?’ I've been hearing the term ‘data cloud’ a lot recently.”</p><p> </p><p>“I think that plumbing is involved, but it's less about plumbing and more about business strategy.”</p><p> </p><p>This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.</p><p> </p>