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Snowflake | January 20, 2023
The Data Cloud company, Snowflake, recently announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Mobilize.Net's SnowConvert, the leading set of tools that helps efficiently migrate databases to the Data Cloud. The acquisition's closing relies on the receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals and the fulfillment of other customary closing conditions.
The major challenge with platform migration remains the code conversion which is required to confirm that all the legacy database functionality can be shifted to the cloud with minimum effort and time. The SnowConvert toolkit has long been the best way to move customer workloads to Snowflake. It uses advanced automation techniques to reduce the need for manual coding and ensure that migration projects are successful.
The toolkit has demonstrated its ability to significantly reduce migration effort and greatly speed up the migration of legacy databases to Snowflake through the built-in analysis capacities at a data-type and procedure level, as well as corresponding to Snowflake native types after converting more than 1.5 billion lines of code1 with SnowConvert. In addition to converting legacy databases, SnowConvert converts Python and Scala workloads, making it simple to move that code to Snowflake's Snowpark development environment.
Ted Brackin, Snowflake's VP of Professional Services, said, "One of our key objectives at Snowflake is to make it as fast and simple as possible for our customers and partners to unlock value from data. For many organizations, that starts with the efficient migration of their legacy databases and applications to the Data Cloud," He also said, "With the acquisition of SnowConvert, we can help more customers, partners and more broadly, our Snowflake partner network move more data and applications into the Data Cloud, enabling customers to obtain faster value from their investment in Snowflake sooner." (Source: Business Wire)
About Snowflake
Founded in 2012, Snowflake is a Data Cloud provider that helps organizations arocss the globe to mobilize their data with concurrency, nearly-unlimited scale and performance. Data Cloud allows organizations to unite siloed data, effortlessly discover and safely share government data, and perform various analytic workloads. Every time data or users live, the company delivers data lakes, data engineering, data science, and data cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data application development, and data sharing. Customers use Snowflake data cloud across many industries, including 543 of the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 (G2K) as of October 31, 2022.
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CoreStack | January 13, 2023
CoreStack, a global multi-cloud governance provider, has launched a new podcast series called CloudBrew, the NextGen Cloud Governance podcast. In this podcast, leading cloud experts, including technology executives, architects, engineers, and consultants, participate in discussions about their experiences, industry best practices, and practical advice around NextGen Cloud Governance.
The goal of the podcast is to present a place where cloud professionals across sectors and geographies can engage on topics that matter, get answers to problems, and build collective cloud expertise. By focusing on real-world solutions, CloudBrew, the NextGen Cloud Governance podcast, provides cloud professionals with valuable insights and actionable information to stay ahead of the curve and make informed decisions when it comes to managing multi-cloud environments.
Bala Vishwanath, Chief Marketing Officer with CoreStack, said, "We’re thrilled to launch CloudBrew. Our goal is to present an interesting place where seasoned experts tackle cloud questions head-on and where cloud professionals across all sectors and geographies can engage on topics that matter, get answers to tough problems, build our collective cloud expertise, and come together to elevate the industry. He added, "We hope to share our passion for NextGen Cloud Governance through this podcast." (Source: Businesswire)
The podcast will offer a series of episodes on cloud best practices and industry trends and will be relevant to all cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Episodes will be available on popular podcast sites like Google Podcasts, iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, and YouTube. CloudBrew, the NextGen Cloud Governance podcast, aims to be a source of knowledge for cloud professionals in various fields who are looking for solutions to help manage the complexities of a multi-cloud environment.
About CoreStack
CoreStack's NextGen Cloud Governance platform uses AI-powered real-time cloud governance on autopilot to predictably increase top-line revenues, bottom-line efficiencies, and competitive edge. CoreStack's FinOps, SecOps, and CloudOps solutions extend native-cloud capabilities, optimize cloud spend, and ensure security and compliance across multiple clouds with a single solution to go further faster. CoreStack delivers transformative value like 40% operational efficiency, 50% cloud cost reduction, and 100% security assurance and compliance through executive dashboards for real-time insights. CoreStack manages $2+ billion in cloud consumption for 500+ global enterprises. CoreStack is a cloud management pioneer, according to Frost & Sullivan, Forrester, Gartner, IDC, and S&P Global. Ex-Wipro CEO and ex-Microsoft CIO strategic advisors support CoreStack. Oracle Cloud Build Partner, Google Cloud Build Partner, Amazon AWS Advanced Technology Competency Partner, and Microsoft Azure Gold Partner.
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Lemongrass | January 19, 2023
Lemongrass, a company that specializes in moving SAP systems to the cloud, just announced that it will work with Florida Crystals Corporation (FCC), a cane-sugar company based in West Palm Beach, Florida. The collaboration will give the FCC access to Lemongrass's cloud technology, which will allow them to run their SAP systems in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
The partnership resulted in the migration of FCC's SAP systems to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which began in 2021 and is now complete. Lemongrass continues to provide innovation and ongoing support for the FCC's SAP landscape. This collaboration is exemplary of how companies are using cloud technology to help modernize their businesses.
Mike Rosenbloom, CEO at Lemongrass, said, “We are honored to work with a true industry pioneer like FCC, whose values around sustainability and business efficiency are setting a high standard for their industry.” He added, “We look forward to a continued partnership with Florida Crystals as the company expands its use of SAP on AWS.”
(Source: Globenewswire)
FCC chose to move to the cloud to save money and simplify its applications, as well as to lay the groundwork for future changes. The move to AWS aligns with FCC's goals of being environmentally and socially conscious in their business decisions and will also save them money. FCC and Lemongrass worked together to move their SAP systems to the cloud. The move was finished in 2021, and since then, Lemongrass has been supporting FCC's SAP landscape.
About Lemongrass
Lemongrass is a company that focuses on providing services that are made possible by software, especially in the area of SAP on Cloud. They offer managed services to enterprise customers, using their expertise and best practices to help with SAP transformations. They use their Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP) to enable near zero downtime migrations to the cloud and offer managed services for SAP and related workloads. They have customers in multiple industries and regions around the world and partner with major technology companies such as AWS, SAP, Microsoft, and Google.
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