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.” This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.  Visit Cloud Wars for more.