Snowflake acquires SnowConvert to speed up database migrations to knowledge cloud

Montana-based Snowflake at this time introduced an settlement with Mobilize Net to amass SnowConvert, a set of instruments to assist enterprises migrate their databases to the Snowflake knowledge cloud. The monetary phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.  

At present, there are many knowledge duplication options for Snowflake, however not many give due consideration to the toughest side of information migration – code conversion. 

A legacy database can have tens of millions of traces of DDL, BTEQ and hundreds of objects. To make sure a profitable migration, this code must be rebuilt and made equally purposeful on the opposite facet. This takes plenty of effort and time, and a slight mistake might trigger the migration to fail. 

To deal with this problem, Mobilize developed SnowConvert. The toolkit makes use of subtle automation strategies with built-analysis and matching to re-create functionally equal code for tables, views, saved procedures, macros and BTEQ information in Snowflake. It could migrate databases from any supply knowledge platform (resembling Oracle, Teradata or Spark) and immediately reduce down the effort and time spent on guide coding. In line with Snowflake, the toolkit has already been used to transform greater than 1.5 billion traces of code.

How this acquisition will assist Snowflake

By buying SnowConvert, Snowflake will increase its skilled companies footprint in Costa Rica, Colombia and Bellevue. It is going to present enterprises with seamless entry to the toolkit, making it simpler for them emigrate their knowledge and begin leveraging the info cloud.

“One in all our key aims at Snowflake is to make it as quick and easy as attainable for our prospects and companions to unlock worth from knowledge. For a lot of organizations, that begins with the environment friendly migration of their legacy databases and functions to the info cloud,” Ted Brackin, Snowflake VP {of professional} companies, mentioned. 

“With the acquisition of SnowConvert, we may help extra prospects, companions and, extra broadly, our Snowflake associate community transfer extra knowledge and functions into the info cloud, enabling prospects to acquire sooner worth from their funding in Snowflake sooner,” Brackin added.

Whereas the closing of this deal stays topic to required regulatory approvals and different closing situations, it have to be famous that this isn’t the primary deal from Snowflake to strengthen the footprint of its knowledge cloud. 

Just some weeks again, Snowflake announced the acquisition of time-series forecasting firm Myst. Previous to that, it had acquired document-understanding platform Applica and open-source app framework Streamlit. The corporate has greater than 7,000 enterprise prospects at current.

Individually, at this time Mobilize Internet additionally posted Progress Acceleration Companions’  announcement of a signed intention to buy its Software Migration Enterprise Unit, equally topic to phrases and regulatory approval.