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Simplify Data Access and Accelerate Insights with Dell ECS and Snowflake
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Overview

  • Increasingly, businesses are running into challenges using native cloud applications with existing large on-premises data repositories. Questions about how cloud-based applications would access and use the data include: Does the data need to move into a public cloud storage offering or can it remain in the on-premises storage architecture? If the data can remain where it is, how will it be accessed? Moving or migrating data to cloud storage is often costly and time consuming. Businesses need to plan for moving to cloud storage and change how they think about the management and expenses for these new workflows.

    To help address these challenges, Dell Technologies has partnered with Snowflake to provide access to existing on-premises data repositories from the Snowflake Data Cloud. Now, data residing in a Dell ECS object storage platform is accessible using Snowflake’s external tables capabilities. Thus, on-premises data can be accessed without the need to first move or migrate it to native cloud storage, and customers can take advantage of the Snowflake capabilities that they are already familiar with. Sensitive data stays on the premises. This capability, coupled with the Dell ECS active/active architecture and Snowflake’s multicloud resiliency, provides secure, easy access and high availability.

    Snowflake accounts are hosted and supported on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. This paper focuses on the AWS architecture.

    About Dell Technologies

    Dell Technologies helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live, and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era.

    ECS is the leading object storage platform from Dell, with unmatched scalability, performance, resilience, and economics. ECS delivers rich S3-compatibility on a globally distributed architecture, empowering organizations to support enterprise workloads such as cloud-native, archive, IoT, AI, and big data analytics applications at scale.

    About Snowflake

    Snowflake helps organizations mobilize their data. With Snowflake’s Data Cloud, customers can unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and run diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies.