Ascend.io, The Data Automation Cloud, announced they have partnered with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, to launch Free Ingest, a new feature that will reduce an enterprise’s data ingest cost and deliver data products up to 7x faster by ingesting data from all sources into the Snowflake Data Cloud quickly and easily.
The new feature will address three critical ingest challenges: cost, complexity, and security. Although cloud adoption has pushed down IT infrastructure costs for many enterprises, data ingestion costs have become more of an obstacle in recent years. Enterprises find themselves in a bind: ingestion is an essential first step in the value chain of data, but traditional ingest providers often lock them into lengthy, rigid, and expensive contracts. With Free Ingest from Ascend.io, customers can take advantage of Ascend.io’s data ingest capabilities at no additional cost on the Ascend.io side.
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“We have found that the cost of data ingest tools make them far too expensive at scale given they are just moving data from point A to point B,” said Ben Tallman, CTO of MScience. “In its place we are using a variety of cloud native and Snowflake capabilities to build our own ingestion framework. Free ingest from Ascend changes the math for us. We get all the benefits of a robust ingest platform seamlessly combined with robust transformation and orchestration capabilities. We expect to save significantly in the first six months alone.”
As the number and variation of data sources increase, Free Ingest reduces this complexity by eliminating the need for disparate tools, open source, and do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches — a common workaround for enterprise data teams working with data from numerous sources. By harnessing the power of Ascend and Snowflake, data teams can now ingest any data from any location, and in just minutes begin releasing entirely new data products.
SOURCE: PR Newswire