“I’m here to open up the public-sector practice, and then grow that across the country,” Oxman told Techwire. “It’s really exciting.”
He said Snowflake computing is “all about building the data warehouse for the cloud. We’re a cloud-built data warehouse company.”
The company began about six years ago, he said, and has over 1,000 customers. Snowflake is available on both the Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure cloud computing platforms.
“A couple of our critical-use cases for the public sector are data warehouse modernization and data sharing, which we call The Data Sharehouse,” he said. “We believe you should only have to pay for it (computing) when you use it. It’s pay as you go, by the second, and we auto-scale. It’s very simple: If you understand SQL, you’re already a Snowflake expert. The learning curve is very easy.”
Snowflake, founded in 2012, is in the E round of funding, having raised a total of $463 million from premier venture capital funds. Its capitalization is about $1.5 billion. The firm partners with others in the private sector and with integrators. It’s also FedRAMP Ready and compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and SOC 2 Type II security measures.
