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This Cloud Wars Minute provides a chief information officer (CIO) perspective on a new partnership between Nvidia and Snowflake, which is the #10 vendor on the Cloud Wars Top 10 list.
Highlights
00:31 — At Snowflake Summit 2023, Snowflake announced a partnership with Nvidia to help businesses build customized generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications using their own proprietary data in the cloud.
00:58 — Snowflake is known for providing secure, scalable data warehousing. Nvidia makes graphics processing units (GPUs), which crunch data for gaming, computer-generated imagery (CGI), video processing, and 3D modeling.
01:42 — GPUs are also well suited to AI processing because they can process multiple computations simultaneously, are smaller than CPUs, and have more cores than CPUs. Nvidia is engineering GPUs for AI-processing tasks.
02:17 — This partnership makes sense: Snowflake needs Nvidia GPUs’ huge compute power, and customers are already storing their big data in Snowflake’s cloud. This marriage of technology will allow customers to train large language models (LLMs) with their own proprietary data, tailor it to their specific needs, and keep the data safe and secure.
03:57 — Three sectors where this could be very useful are healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing.
04:31 — This collaboration is not just a partnership. It’s a vision of the future where data-driven AI is customized, secure, and revolutionary.
