Snowflake Acquires Datavolo to Boost Data Engineering in AI Data Cloud [Video]

Snowflake, an AI Data Cloud company, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Datavolo, which specialises in managing multimodal data pipelines for enterprise AI.

This move will enhance  Snowflake’s capabilities in data engineering, particularly in the ‘bronze layer’ of the data lifecycle, by simplifying and scaling the ingestion of unstructured data on its platform.

The acquisition will allow Snowflake to integrate Datavolo’s technology into its unified platform, providing a more straightforward approach for data engineering teams to connect enterprise systems. This integration is expected to unlock data for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications, as well as analytics, while leveraging the scalability, performance, and governance features inherent in Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.

Datavolo, powered by Apache NiFi—a secure data processing technology originally developed by the National Security Agency (NSA)—offers a platform for automating and managing both structured and unstructured data flows. Integrating Datavolo into Snowflake’s ecosystem will enable customers to …