Data and analytics workloads continue to move in large numbers from private on-premises data centers to public cloud environments. Although 75% of data and analytics solutions are deployed on premises today, the latest figures from IDC predict that the preferred deployment model for Big Data will shift dramatically in the next few years.

This white paper explains why the architecture you select for data warehousing and data lakes makes a difference in the agility, performance, and scalability of your data warehouse or data lake. By providing insights into the various architectures, we demonstrate how Snowflake’s architecture differs and why Snowflake is the only cross-cloud data platform that is built for the cloud and that scales like the cloud, enabling organizations to be data-driven.