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The Data Cloud was born from a bold vision: disrupt 50 years of computing to mobilize the world’s data.

Rise of the Data Cloud chronicles an idea that evolved into one of the biggest breakthroughs in modern technology. The Data Cloud brings organizations and their data together so the true potential of the data economy can emerge. Find out how your enterprise can join the Data Cloud and reap the previously unimaginable benefits of transacting with data, locally and globally.

Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, and Marcin Zukowski had a mission. As Snowflake’s founders, they wanted to make all types of data available to anybody with permission to use it via a simple and inexpensive mechanism. Their collective efforts drove the breakthrough creation of the Data Cloud. Snowflake’s Data Cloud platform ingests available data and transforms it into information. Without the ability to effectively process, data is just a collection of raw facts. If data can be managed, processed and organized, the resulting information can be harnessed to make data-driven decisions. Data Cloud allows organizations to fully automate many core business processes—making them more efficient, massively scalable, and less prone to error. Suppose you’re an IT manager responsible for managing data. Your frustrations with disconnected datasets, hardware storage constraints, lack of unique identifiers between multiple datasets, and access to analytics is making you and your organization less effective. This book will give you an understanding of what we’ve built to help you create a business with data as its most robust foundation.

Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloes of data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds, helping power the data economy. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Authorhouse (December 4, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1728363608
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1728363608
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.7 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
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Frank Slootman currently serves as Chairman and CEO at Snowflake. Frank has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the enterprise software industry. Mr. Slootman served as CEO and President of ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017, taking the organization from around $100M in revenue, through an IPO, to $1.4B. Prior to that, Frank served as President of the Backup Recovery Systems Division at EMC following an acquisition of Data Domain Corporation/Data Domain, Inc., where he served as the Chief Executive Officer and President, leading the company through an IPO to its acquisition by EMC for $2.4B. Slootman holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from the Netherlands School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Fred Weaver
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and informative
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2021
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I wanted to read the book after seeing articles in the Bay Area trade journals about Snowflake's IPO. I read this book with a pen marking up almost as much as I was reading. Great storytelling and explanation of the progress with data over the years with insights into the future of data as well. A wealth of information for an entrepreneur like me who has a startup that will be, "adopting a richly featured cloud date platform - one that you can build your data-driven business on." Even in short, it is just a great business book!
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G. OBrien
5.0 out of 5 stars Get ready for a rough but fun ride.
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2021
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This is an easy read, full of good info. For me, it was a page turner. This truly reminds of the early 1980's and the switch to digital motor controls. There was so much hesitation to change. It was like not being able to see the forest for the trees.I look forward to watching the transition to the cloud.
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Martin K
4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2021
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After the first few chapters seems repetitive and sales-y marketing.
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William O'Brien
3.0 out of 5 stars Good Overview, Largely Marketing
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2021
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Bought this book as I work in data warehousing, but I wasn't very familiar with Snowflake (aside from hearing a ton of hype about it). The first few chapters explaining the history of the company and data warehouse tech are pretty useful and interesting. You could probably find the same information on the internet, but in my case, I prefer books, so I can actually sit down and focus on cohesive and linear information.

The rest of the book has very little to do with Snowflake specifically. It just goes industry by industry and basically just mentions uses cases for data warehouses, and big data generally, with an emphasis on inter and intra company sharing via the cloud. Got kind of tedious and felt mostly like a marketing pitch. A lot of mention of what perhaps makes Snowflake unique, in that they have a data exchange enabled by their technology.

I was a bit let down that this was advertised as a book "by Frank Slootman" when really he just wrote an intro and a conclusion. If you work in the data field, it does seem worthwhile to learn more about Snowflake. There are quite possibly cheaper or better ways to do that than this book. But if you just want to read for a couple hours and have the information neatly laid out for you for, this book serves that purpose decently.
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Miles P. Griffith
5.0 out of 5 stars Frank Slootman has brilliantly done it again!
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2022
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Effectively, Slootman crafts, quite uniquely a conceptual framework, specific to data cloud analytical computing, brilliantly emerging on formulating these topics of choice.
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VISHU
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring story and lot to learn from the team
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2020
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So far , I read only half way and it’s an amazing and inspiring book. Recommend for everyone who would like to learn and how to handle different situations and challenges faced in the startups. Inspiring story, great leaders and amazing founders.
Definite read...
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Mingli Rui
5.0 out of 5 stars Many interesting stories!
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2020
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I got the book yesterday evening and read 40+ pages. There are a lot of interesting stories about how the co-founders think/design/start snowflake. Many current designs are obvious, but they were not in 2012/2013.
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Grant Shambo
4.0 out of 5 stars Great educational read
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2020
Nowadays there is a lot of buzzword chatter around data with what seems like limited actual knowledge of the subject from people talking about it. This is a must read for people to not only learn about what Snowflake does, but also learn about the changing economics of all industries and where things are heading.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not much meat to it
Reviewed in Canada on September 5, 2022
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Largely a self-indulgent story about Snowflake. Not a lot of useful information beyond that.
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Eduardo Rosman
5.0 out of 5 stars Abre a cabeça
Reviewed in Brazil on March 27, 2021
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Leitura difícil, mas super relevante/atual. Ajuda a abrir a cabeça para a próxima revolução que está por vir
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3.0 out of 5 stars Great primer on the importance of cloud and data
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2021
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This is primarily a book for executives considering a cloud data warehouse. It’s a bit salesy similarly to the Satya Nadella’s Microsoft book, but if you can look past that there are many things you can learn about what makes Snowflake so great and why data in the cloud is the future
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