Snowflake acquires SnowConvert to speed up database migrations to knowledge cloud

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

Right this moment, 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 thousands and thousands of traces of DDL, BTEQ and hundreds of objects. To make sure a profitable migration, this code must be rebuilt and made equally useful on the opposite facet. This takes plenty of effort and time, and a slight mistake may 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 might probably migrate databases from any supply knowledge platform (equivalent to Oracle, Teradata or Spark) and immediately reduce down the effort and time spent on guide coding. Based on 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 broaden its skilled providers footprint in Costa Rica, Colombia and Bellevue. It’ll present enterprises with seamless entry to the toolkit, making it simpler for them emigrate their knowledge and begin leveraging the information cloud.

“One in all our key goals at Snowflake is to make it as quick and easy as doable 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 information cloud,” Ted Brackin, Snowflake VP {of professional} providers, stated. 

“With the acquisition of SnowConvert, we can assist extra prospects, companions and, extra broadly, our Snowflake accomplice community transfer extra knowledge and functions into the information cloud, enabling prospects to acquire quicker 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 introduced 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 the moment Mobilize Web additionally posted Development Acceleration Companions’  announcement of a signed intention to buy its Software Migration Enterprise Unit, equally topic to phrases and regulatory approval.