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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.

There aren't a lot of neuroscientists in enterprise software, but George Fraser is one of them. Fraser, co-founder and CEO of Fivetran, holds a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh but has spent the last 12 years building links between the original sources of corporate data and the storage facilities that help companies to extract meaning from that data. Fivetran calls them "connectors," and last week the company unveiled its 500th connector that can pull data from a variety of household-name enterprise tech products and move it to the data warehouse of your choice.…

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