Summary

At its annual Summit event in Las Vegas Tuesday, cloud data rockstar Snowflake made a slew of announcements, showing its intention to move beyond its customary data warehouse specialization and take on numerous other categories in the data and analytics space. These include data lake, operational database, streaming data, and data science use cases. The company is even targeting provision of an application platform. Clearly, Snowflake is taking steps to make its Data Cloud vision more than rhetorical.