In the latest Breaking Analysis, Dave Vellante, chief analyst at theCUBE Research, and George Gilbert, principal analyst at theCUBE Research, provided a detailed analysis of Snowflake's transformative journey and its future aspirations and gave some of their takeaways from Snowflake’s Data Could Summit. They discussed the company's shift from a scalable data warehouse to an AI-driven data cloud and application platform, emphasizing the strategic leadership of new CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. 

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In this Breaking Analysis, theCUBE Research analyst George Gilbert and I share how we see the next data platform, what we sometimes call the 6th data platform evolving. And we’ll give you a preview of what we expect at next week’s Snowflake Summit, including the company’s response to metadata catalogs, the integration of Snowpark and new application developments.

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Snowflake is at a pivotal moment as the company faces new challenges in the evolving data platform landscape. Snowflake, known for its innovative data cloud vision and superior integrated data platform, now seeks to lead in AI and data applications. However, market forces are pressuring its core values of simplicity, efficiency and trusted data. 

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The shift towards open storage formats and data catalogs, alongside the AI revolution, tests Snowflake’s ability to extend its value proposition and compete in new markets. To succeed, Snowflake must flawlessly execute both organic and inorganic innovation while attracting new developer personas and maintaining profitability.

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It’s estimated that firms on average have between 60 and 75 security tools installed. Although leading vendors logically market the benefits of addressing tools sprawl and complexity through consolidation, the data suggests that more than half the firms are increasing the number of security vendors installed, with a very small percentage able to effect vendor consolidation.

Adding to the challenge is an environment where security operations pros have too many priorities to manage, including identity, vulnerability management, patching, endpoint, security and information event management, antivirus, zero trust, cloud security and more. Finally, firms are investing in artificial intelligence to relieve the crushing labor burden security analysts are facing but are being forced to balance innovation with the daily battle.

In this Breaking Analysis, we preview RSA Conference 2024 with our colleague Erik Bradley of Enterprise Technology Research. We’ll provide a detailed analysis of a recent survey conducted by ETR, perfectly timed ahead of RSA.