In this week’s edition of theCUBE Podcast, recorded during Snowflake's Data Cloud Summit, the discussion centered around the challenges of creating governance standards across various compute engines. Snowflake's strategy to open-source the Polaris Catalog and the importance of its Horizon solution for advanced governance were key topics.New episodes every Friday. Subscribe for weekly tech analysis.
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YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g5NaFcRuIn the first segment, Dave Vellante, chief analyst at theCUBE Research is joined by George Gilbert, principal analyst at theCUBE Research, and Sanjeev Mohan, principal at SanjMo, as they discuss the difficulties in standardizing open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, describing it as "herding cats."To see John and Dave in action, follow theCUBE's live event coverage at https://www.thecube.net/The episode also featured Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, who discussed the company's rapid advancements, including the Cortex AI project and its vision of being a leading data cloud platform. Additionally, the ongoing rivalry between Snowflake and Databricks was explored, with Databricks' acquisition of Tabular Technologies being a significant move in the battle over data storage standards.Read more about the current episode of theCUBE Pod https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/10/data-cloud-summit-thecubepod/This Week in Enterprise:Jensanity! Nvidia valuation tops $3T — until regulators and naysayers weigh inHave we reached peak AI? This was a week in which CEO Jensen Huang’s Nvidia hit $3 trillion in market capitalization, only to fall back below that mark on reports of an antitrust probe by the Justice Department. Easy come, easy go.Meantime, some people are questioning if generative AI will catch on quickly enough to justify all the money still flowing in and policy arm-wrestling continues. But others such as McKinsey are more optimistic, and as Paul Gillin’s deep dive indicates, at least some companies are getting a handle on the all-important task of managing the data for AI.Speaking of which, at its Data Cloud Summit this past week in San Francisco, Snowflake made its case for an integrated data compute platform while opening up to more outside technology. But archrival Databricks, which photobombed the event with an announced acquisition, will make its own case for even more openness next week at its Data + AI Summit.Amid mixed enterprise tech provider earnings, HPE and CrowdStrike nonetheless beat estimates and investors cheered. Next week: Oracle and Broadcom, bellwethers in cloud — where Microsoft oddly laying off a lot of people from Azure — and in semiconductors. Plus, Adobe, a software-as-a-service indicator.Also, next week, Apple holds its Worldwide Developer Conference, likely revealing its AI cards, in particular a deal with OpenAI as well as Apple Intelligence.Check out the full article https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/07/jensanity-nvidia-valuation-tops-3t-regulators-naysayers-weigh/For daily news for CIOs, check out our parent publication at https://siliconangle.com/Watch the full lineup of theCUBE Pod https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLenh213llmcYe7nXWic9QsnHUD5fqbEwu