WHITE PAPER SUPERCHARGE YOUR DATA LAKE WITH SNOWFLAKEWHITE PAPER 2 DATA LAKES: THE PROMISE Ten or more years ago, legacy data warehouses could not keep up with ever-increasing data volumes and the wide variety of data that businesses were collecting and needing to analyze—everything from traditional data sources such as ERP and CRM systems to data from third-party sources to more- modern data sources such as weblogs, IoT devices, and social media networks. The solution for big data in the early days seemed to be the data lake, where organizations could collect, store, and analyze all of their structured and unstructured data in one place. Beginning with on-premises solutions and moving to the cloud, the hope for data lakes was that they would solve the problem with minimal

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