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

Immediately, there are many information 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 1000’s of objects. To make sure a profitable migration, this code must be rebuilt and made equally practical on the opposite facet. This takes lots 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 methods with built-analysis and matching to re-create functionally equal code for tables, views, saved procedures, macros and BTEQ recordsdata in Snowflake. It may well migrate databases from any supply information platform (comparable to Oracle, Teradata or Spark) and immediately minimize down the effort and time spent on guide coding. In response to 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 providers footprint in Costa Rica, Colombia and Bellevue. It should present enterprises with seamless entry to the toolkit, making it simpler for them emigrate their information and begin leveraging the info cloud.

“Certainly one of our key targets at Snowflake is to make it as quick and easy as attainable for our clients and companions to unlock worth from information. 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} providers, mentioned. 

“With the acquisition of SnowConvert, we will help extra clients, companions and, extra broadly, our Snowflake companion community transfer extra information and functions into the info cloud, enabling clients 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 circumstances, it have to be famous that this isn’t the primary deal from Snowflake to strengthen the footprint of its information cloud. 

Only a few 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 clients 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.