Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, has announced new features. These innovations enhance its strengths: high performance, secure data sharing, and strong data protection. They now apply to Apache Iceberg™ tables, a rapidly growing open table format. This development helps organizations use data more efficiently. They can do this without moving it and still enjoy open interoperability.
Snowflake helps businesses improve their open lakehouse strategies. Now, they can easily access and analyze data in both open and managed settings. This capability accelerates the development and deployment of advanced insights and AI-powered applications.
Before, organizations chose between a unified data platform and open formats, like Parquet. Snowflake’s full support for Apache Iceberg removes this compromise. Customers can store, manage, and analyze data easily. They can use an open, interoperable format. Plus, they can still rely on Snowflake’s trusted platform. This way, they avoid the risk of vendor lock-in. This lets thousands of organizations around the world use their data fully. They get the performance and flexibility needed to drive AI strategies.
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“Open is the future of data, but it also needs to be simple. “Customers shouldn’t choose between open formats and high performance or business continuity,” said Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Products at Snowflake. “With today’s innovations in Iceberg tables, Snowflake enables customers to leverage open data just as seamlessly as data stored natively on the platform, eliminating complexity while delivering enterprise-grade performance and security.”
