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Fivetran's George Fraser: Stop freaking out about choosing Snowflake or Databricks

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Today: Fivetran CEO George Fraser's bet that data connectivity is more important than data residency, Microsoft joins the cloud breakup-fee party, and the latest enterprise moves. "The more significant decision is, 'what is your strategy for centralizing the data?' Because these data platforms do not do that; they are the place that it gets centralized to, but they do not centralize anything." Today: Zoom is increasing the use of its own infrastructure after relying on the cloud during the pandemic, Databricks says it is growing faster than its larger rival, and this week's enterprise moves. "The more significant decision is, 'what is your strategy for centralizing the data?' Because these data platforms do not do that; they are the place that it gets centralized to, but they do not centralize anything." Get the free version of our newsletter. No spam ever, unsubscribe anytime. There aren't a lot of neuroscientists in enterprise software, but George Fraser is one of them.

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