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Snowflake co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville is coming to TC Sessions: Enterprise

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When it comes to a cloud success story, Snowflake checks all the boxes. It’s a SaaS product going after industry giants. It has raised bushels of cash and grown extremely rapidly — and the story is continuing to develop for the cloud data lake company. In September, Snowflake’s co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville […] Continue reading Snowflake co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville is coming to TC Sessions: Enterprise→

Syncsort and Snowflake to support growing demand for advanced cloud analytics

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Syncsort, the global leader in Big Iron to Big Data software, announced seamless data integration with Snowflake, provider of the only data warehouse built for the cloud. The new integration will enable mutual customers to access, transform and deliver… Continue reading Syncsort and Snowflake to support growing demand for advanced cloud analytics→

Whose (usage) data is it, anyway?

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Around the world, business customers now demand business-to-business (B2B) SaaS companies safeguard their usage data. More importantly, they want to know how SaaS companies use that type of data. Unlike personal data, usage data is generated any time b… Continue reading Whose (usage) data is it, anyway?→

Epoxy Too Thin? Use Wood Flour as a Thixotropic Filler

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The world of glues is wide and varied, and it pays to use the right glue for the job. When [Eric] needed to stick a wide and flat 3D printed mount onto the back of a PCB that had been weatherproofed with an uneven epoxy coating, he needed a gap-filling adhesive that would bond to both surfaces. It seemed like a job for the hot glue gun, but the surface was a bit larger than [Eric] was comfortable using with hot glue for. The larger the surface to be glued, the harder it is to do the whole thing before …read more

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Jonathan Sander, Snowflake – Enterprise Security Weekly #112

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Jonathan Sander explains how he came to work for Snowflake and what Snowflake does in the enterprise security space. Jonathan explains how Snowflake contains their data and protect from breaches as well as keeping the data safe. Full Show NotesVisit ht… Continue reading Jonathan Sander, Snowflake – Enterprise Security Weekly #112→

Snowflake expands beyond Amazon to Azure cloud

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Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse, announced a partnership with Microsoft today to expand their offering to the Azure cloud. The new product is still in Preview for now. Given that Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia worked at Microsoft for more than 20 years, it’s certainly not surprising that Microsoft is the company’s second partner after working […] Continue reading Snowflake expands beyond Amazon to Azure cloud→

Snowflake lands massive $263 million investment on unicorn valuation

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 Snowflake, the cloud-based data warehouse service, announced an enormous investment round today, pulling in a whopping $263 million on a unicorn valuation of $1.5 billion. The round was led by a trio of big-name Silicon Valley VC firms including … Continue reading Snowflake lands massive $263 million investment on unicorn valuation→

Snowflake’s newest cloud data warehouse takes aim at regulated industries

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 Snowflake, makers of a cloud data warehouse service, announced a new virtual private product that should appeal to highly regulated companies like financial services and healthcare. In fact, the company also announced that one of the product’s earliest customers, Capital One, will be investing $5 million in Snowflake as a strategic investor as a result of this new approach. Most… Read More Continue reading Snowflake’s newest cloud data warehouse takes aim at regulated industries→

SIM Card Connectors and White PCBs Make Huge LED Snowflakes Happen

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[Mike Harrison] talked about designing and building a huge scale LED lighting installation in which PCBs were used as both electrical and mechanical elements, and presented at Electromagnetic Field 2016. The project involved 84,000 RGBW LEDs, 14,000 microcontrollers and 25,000 PCBs. It had some different problems to solve compared to small jobs, but [Mike] shared techniques that could be equally applied to smaller scale projects or applications. He goes into detail on designing for manufacture and assembly, sourcing the parts, and building the units on-site.

The installation itself was a snowflake display for a high-end shopping mall in Hong Kong …read more

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