Snowflake retains open data integration platform Datavolo

Snowflake has announced the signing of a Datavolo purchase agreementa company developer of an open data integration platform designed to accelerate the creation, management and observability of multimodal data flows to work with enterprise AI.

This move will increase Snowflake’s ability to facilitate data lifecycle management, as well as provide a simple system for data engineering teams to integrate all their enterprise systems into its platform, allowing access to data. for AI and machine learning, apps and analytics. Also take advantage of the scale and performance of AI Data Cloud. Therefore, the combination of Datavolo and Snowflake will simplify data engineering workloads, in addition to offering an improvement in interoperability and extensibility of information.

The Datavolo platform, powered by the open source Apache NiFi secure data processing and distribution project, provides a single point to automate and manage structured and unstructured data flows from various enterprise sources. Once integrated into the Snowflake platform, it will form the basis of the extensible and open connectivity platform for working with data. Additionally, it will allow customers to move their structured and unstructured data from the cloud and on-premises sources to the AI ​​Data Cloud platform.

This purchase will also allow Snowflake to gain weight in public sector entities. Its intention is to continue maintaining the NiFi project after the closure of the operation, deepening its work with open standards, which will give more possibilities to both its clients and members of the NiFi community.

Sridar Ramaswamy, CEO de Snowflakehas highlighted that «By adding Datavolo to the Snowflake portfolio, we are expanding the part of the data lifecycle that Snowflake captures, enabling both simplicity and cost savings for our customers, without sacrificing data extensibility. We are delighted to have the Datavolo team join Snowflake as we accelerate what is the best platform for enterprise data, structured and unstructured, block and streaming«.

Joe Witt, one of the founders and CEO of Datavolo and one of the creators of Apache NiFirecalled for his part that «Data engineering at scale can be incredibly expensive and complex, and our intention has always been to simplify experiences so our customers can achieve value faster. By joining forces with Snowflake we can empower our customers with the sheer scale and radical simplicity of the Snowflake platform, ultimately opening up data engineering to more users.«.