Competitive race in the cloud data warehousing market gets interesting
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The impact of Snowflake Inc. in the enterprise tech world extends well beyond its becoming the largest software initial public offering in history. The company is beginning to eat into the overall market share of competitors in the cloud data warehousing market based on revenue, to the point where it may potentially supplant all of the major cloud providers.
That was one conclusion from recent data analysis provided by 7Park Data Inc., a research firm that analyzes real-time spending to provide transparency for the cloud database market.
“Within this cloud infrastructure data set, we’re tracking several billion dollars-worth of spend across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform,” said Sagar Kadakia (pictured), head of enterprise information technology at 7Park Data. “At least within the data warehousing space, you are seeing spend go toward Snowflake. It’s definitely t
Solving the data access riddle to unlock business value
Microsoft South Africa’s Johannes Kanis
Data has proven to be a double-edged sword for modern organisations. It holds the promise of immense value, but requires an intensive investment of time, resources and expertise before that value can be unlocked. Many businesses are struggling to find the right balance and, as a result, are failing to reap the rewards data offers as a differentiator.
“Essentially, an effective data and business strategy requires giving the right decision makers access to the right data and insights so they are enabled to make decisions that will drive the business forward,” says Johannes Kanis, Cloud and Enterprise Business Group lead at Microsoft South Africa.
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Also switches visualisation tool to open source option.
Cash Converters has moved its data science workspace - used to analyse personal loans and in-store trends - from Databricks to a newer native Azure-based service.
The company, known for its pawnbroking and payday lending operations, took up Azure Synapse Analytics and also switched its data visualisation tool as part of a technology uplift.
Cash Converters will still draw its raw data points and telemetry back to an Azure SQL data warehouse, but will use Synapse in place of Databricks to ingest, transform and analyse subsets of that raw ‘event’ data.