Talk:Snowflake Computing/Draft
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| name = Snowflake Computing
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| type = Private
| industry = Data Warehousing
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| founder = Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Zukowski
| hq_location = San Mateo, CA
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| key_people = Bob Muglia, CEO
| products = Cloud-based data warehousing
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| website = [http://www.snowflake.net/ snowflake.net]
}}Snowflake Computing is a cloud-based data-warehousing startup publicly launched by Bob Muglia in 2014, after spending two years in stealth mode.{{cite news|title=Snowflake offers cloud data warehouse as a service, cheaply|url=http://sdtimes.com/snowflake-offers-cloud-data-warehouse-service-cheaply/#sthash.T71Fl8kn.dpuf|first=Alex|last=Handy|newspaper=SD Times|accessdate=November 20, 2014|date=October 23, 2014}}{{cite news|title=Longtime Microsoft Executive Opens Cloud Database Start-Up|first=Nick|last=Wingfield|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/longtime-microsoft-executive-opens-cloud-database-start-up/?_r=0|accessdate=November 11, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 21, 2014}}
History
Snowflake Computing was founded in 2012 in San Mateo, California by three data warehousing experts: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Zukowski.{{cite web | title=Startup Spotlight: Snowflake Computing's Elastic Data Warehouse | website=IT Business Edge | date=October 13, 2015 | url=http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/data-management/startup-spotlight-snowflake-computings-elastic-data-warehouse.html | accessdate=November 10, 2015|first=Loraine|last=Lawson}} It came out of stealth mode in October 2014{{cite web | last=Hesseldahl | first=Arik | title=Big Data Startup Snowflake Raises $45 Million, Launches First Product | website=Re/code | date=June 23, 2015 | url=http://recode.net/2015/06/23/big-data-startup-snowflake-raises-45-million-launches-first-product/ | accessdate=November 10, 2015}} shortly after appointing former Microsoft executive Bob Muglia as CEO that June. According to IT Business Edge, much of the interest in the company is based on Muglia's involvement. As of October 2015, Snowflake Computing has raised $71 million in funding, including $26 million it had raised before coming out of stealth and $45 million funding round announced in June 2015.{{cite news|last1=Vanian|first1=Jonathan|title=This big data startup is as unique as a snowflake|url=http://fortune.com/2015/06/23/big-data-startup-snowflake/|accessdate=August 5, 2015|work=Fortune Magazine|date=June 23, 2015}}{{cite web | last=Vanian | first=Jonathan | title=With $26M, Snowflake Computing is hoping its take on data warehousing will hit the mainstream | website=Gigaom | date=October 21, 2014 | url=https://gigaom.com/2014/10/21/with-26m-snowflake-computing-is-hoping-its-take-on-data-warehousing-will-hit-the-mainstream/ | accessdate=November 10, 2015}}
Products
Snowflake Computing sells a cloud-based data storage and analytics service called Snowflake Elastic Data Warehousing.{{cite web | last=Bass | first=Dina | title=Snowflake Takes Aim at Amazon, Hadoop With New Data Service | website=Bloomberg.com | date=October 21, 2014 | url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-21/snowflake-takes-aim-at-amazon-hadoop-with-new-data-service | accessdate=November 10, 2015}} It allows corporate users to store and analyze data using cloud-based hardware and software. The data is stored on Amazon S3 servers. According to the CEO, the software does not rely on Hadoop. The developer was identified as a "Cool Vendor" in Gartner's Magic Quadrant and won first place at the 2015 Stata + Hadoop World startup competition. It became generally available in June 2015{{cite web | last=Brust | first=Andrew | title=Cloud data warehouse race heats up | website=ZDNet | date=June 26, 2015 | url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-data-warehouse-race-heats-up/ | accessdate=November 10, 2015}}{{cite web | last=Darfler | first=Benjamin | title=Snowflake Announces General Availability of their Cloud Data Warehouse Offering | website=InfoQ | date=July 28, 2015 | url=http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/07/snowflake-cloud-data-warehouse | accessdate=November 10, 2015}} and had 80 organizations using it at that time.
References
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External links
- [http://www.snowflake.net/ Official website]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hxeVD86Do Interview with Bob Muglia at VMWare]
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