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Customers often have data distributed across on-prem, public clouds, and co-located datacenters to meet specific business needs. Having distributed data repositories makes it challenging to discover, access, and process data on demand. The problem is further aggravated when data is stored in proprietary formats and is not interoperable with your tools of choice.
In this use case, the customer has data stored in Dell ECS that is located either on-premise or in a cloud adjacent datacenter such as Faction, and in an open format, that is, Parquet file format. They also have data stored in a Snowflake Database within the same Snowflake Data Cloud. This paper demonstrates how to access the data stored in Dell ECS using the Snowflake query engine and visualize the results using business intelligence software.
In this paper we demonstrate two use cases: