Snowflake announces deal to buy SnowConvert, a database migration tool, from Mobilize Net

The cloud information warehouse big Snowflake Inc. stated right now it has agreed a take care of Hole Mobilize Corp., which does enterprise as Mobilize Net, to accumulate its database migration software SnowConvert.

Though there are a variety of third-party information duplication instruments round that can be utilized to assist migrations to Snowflake, few pay a lot consideration to some of the tough elements of that course of, code conversion.

The problem is that legacy databases usually have tens of millions of strains of Knowledge Definition Language SQL instructions and 1000’s of objects. To make sure that a database can efficiently be migrated to Snowflake’s cloud information warehouse, it’s essential to rebuild all of this code and create the very same performance. It’s a time-consuming process, and a single mistake may derail the whole operation.

That’s why Mobilize created SnowConvert. It’s a collection of instruments that employs refined automation strategies and depends on evaluation and matching to reconstruct issues comparable to tables, views, saved procedures, macros and BTEQ information with equal features inside Snowflake.

In keeping with Mobilize, SnowConvert can migrate databases from platforms together with Oracle, Spark and Teradata, whereas considerably decreasing the necessity for any handbook coding. Snowflake stated SnowConvert has confirmed to be extraordinarily fashionable with clients trying to migrate to its platform, changing greater than 1.5 billion strains of code up to now.

Snowflake stated the acquisition of SnowConvert would enable it to broaden its skilled providers footprint in Bellevue, Costa Rica, and Colombia. Prospects will achieve simpler entry to its instruments when planning their database migrations.

Ted Brackin, Snowflake’s vice chairman {of professional} providers, defined that the corporate is concentrated on making it as quick and so simple as potential for patrons to effectively migrate from their legacy databases to its information cloud. “With the acquisition of SnowConvert, we will help extra clients, companions and, extra broadly, our Snowflake accomplice community transfer extra information and functions into the info cloud, enabling clients to acquire sooner worth from their funding in Snowflake sooner,” he stated.

The phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed and shutting stays topic to Snowflake receiving regulatory approval.

The acquisition is Snowflake’s second to this point this yr. Lower than two weeks in the past, it introduced it had agreed a deal to purchase Myst AI Inc., the creator of a time-series forecasting platform for builders. Final March, Snowflake snapped up an organization known as Streamlit Inc., creator of an open-source software framework, for round $800 million.

In separate information right now, Mobilize additionally introduced it’s selling its Software Migration Enterprise Unit to an organization known as Development Acceleration Companions.

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