Ascend.io and Snowflake have partnered to launch a feature called Free Ingest, which aims to make it more affordable and efficient for businesses to bring in data. Free Ingest addresses the three main challenges faced by businesses when it comes to data ingestion: cost, complexity, and security. It allows customers to use Ascend.io’s data ingestion capabilities at no additional cost and simplifies the process by eliminating the need for multiple tools and DIY approaches for ingesting data from various sources.
Additionally, it provides enhanced security by leveraging the trustworthiness and reliability of Snowflake’s enterprise-grade platform. Using Ascend.io and Snowflake, data teams can quickly ingest data from any location and start creating new data products within minutes. With Free Ingest, businesses can quickly import data from any source and start making new data products within minutes. This can be done in a secure and cost-effective way.
Bringing data from the data pipeline from various sources into a centralized storage system or “data lake” for further analysis and processing is an important function of data ingestion.