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The Coolest System And Platform Companies Of The 2020 Big Data 100
Rick Whiting
Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 looks at the vendors solution providers need to know in the systems and platforms space.
Snowflake
Top Executive: CEO Frank Slootman
Despite competing with AWS, Microsoft and other cloud computing giants, Snowflake has enjoyed rapid growth with its cloud-based data warehouse. The company’s value proposition: It offers a way to quickly set up a data warehouse at lower cost compared to complex, expensive, on-premises data warehouses.
In February Snowflake began offering its data warehouse system on the Google Cloud Platform, in addition to already running on AWS and Microsoft Azure. Also in February, the company raised $479 million in funding, putting its market valuation at $12.4 billion
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