>>Sony. Betty is here with me. He's the CEO and chief data officer for Snowflake. Sunny. Thanks for making the time today. Good to see >>you. Same here, Dave. Thanks for having me or >>yeah, so you're welcome. So before we get into it, I gotta ask you I mean, you recently left in video to join Snowflake. I mean, one of the few cos they're almost is hot. A snowflake. How come? Well, you know, >>Dave, I joined and video 12 years ago. I was there for 12 years when the video was less than 2000 people company and in video, you know, have an unbelievable growth trajectory. We went from 2000 employees to 16,000 when I left in, uh, December of 2019 and slowly kind of provided the same opportunity to come in Onda help scale the company. I thrive in an environment where I can be creative. I thrive in an environment where I can build things I can scale things. I could grow things, and it's been just a perfect opportunity to come and repeat that success over here. >>Awesome. Well, we wish you the best talking about your role. A little bit. I mean, it's not totally unique. I mean, especially in certain smaller organizations that have the same person in the role of chief information officer and chief data officer. But oh, which are you? Are you more CEO CEO? How do you balance that >>out? I would say that I'm both to be an effective CEO. You need immersion with automation. You need immersion with data. You need a motion with security. And you also need emotion with compliance. So if all these things are together, things that integrated, you have a cohesive way of handling all the pieces that come together. We believe if you keep them separated, you create silos and we definitely don't want silos. We want integration. We want seamless integration to drive and scale the company for future. I always felt nighttime is balanced between both areas. I >>mean, I always felt like a lot of the CEO, so I talked to They'd love to get more involved in the data, but they're just too busy trying to keep the lights on, you know, kind of. So maybe what are your thoughts on the priorities of each Hat CEO and CTO? >>Yeah. So look I mean, I think because we're full cloud company, we don't have anything on Prem. I don't have any work clothes in the on Prem. I don't We don't have a data center. I really don't have to worry about all the operational challenges that you have to deal with being a non prime company. So the cycles that I can be involved from a transformational perspective, trans driving transformation for the company, both on the data side as well as on the i d I t side I have I have that cycles to be to invest that time and energy into both areas. Uh, typically in a traditional company which is not yet migrated towards the cloud. A major portion of the abandoned gets wasted CEOs, bandwidth and I t professionals. Bandwidth gets wasted in dealing with the operational challenges that you have in an on prem environment. So having not to worry about that over here gives me all the cycles to be investing my time in both areas. >>Yeah, a lot of wasted I t labor over the decades. Let me ask you, how is running a data company? You know you're inside of a fast moving Silicon Valley Tech company. One of the similarities and the differences from some of the customers. I mean, on the one hand, you're moving faster than your customers, at least most of them. And you don't have the technical day. You just describe See XO Nirvana. On the other hand, you're an example of what's possible. You could sort of set the best practice. Mark, How do you see that dynamic >>eso? You know, for a world class I T organization, it needs to be data driven. It needs to be highly automated. It needs to enable world class user experience on then to secure and make the environment compliant, resilient. The cloud platform that we have inside snowflake allows us to achieve all of that. Now, that is, um, you know, an ideal situation to be in, but you don't have to deal with, you know, all the on time type of work clothes. Um, so finding that balance is what we're going after. And however this is a This is a journey right for other companies who are not on the cloud. It's a journey. They have to prioritize that they have to start moving things to the cloud and that's where we are Different and similar, right? Were different that we don't have to worry about that. Everything is in the cloud for us on then. Uh, that's kind of where we are, How we see it. >>So, you know, used to call the dog Fuding segment. But Oliver Bushman was the sea was the CEO of s a piece. I don't know, Dave. We call it drinking your own champagne, which is how you guys refer to it. But, you know, sometimes still in such situations, you're inside the sausage factory, which is, you know, good in a way, because you see it before it goes into production. But so what's your journey with with snowflake been like, Yeah, >>so that's a really good question. That's a major portion of what I do at work and the let's start with the first principles. We believe that we want to measure everything in the company that's important for companies performance. If we measure the right things, we believe we can drive. The best outcomes were driven through those first principles, and we leverage our business applications, our data, our security, our automation and our compliance to integrate our with our product to power. All these use cases and workloads, uh, in our own environment, we call that Snow house, which is nothing but a snowflake Instance. So, um, for all the new products that we are coming into market with, we work very closely with the engineering team with the product management team to make sure that we actually become customer zero and try Thio. Use as much functionality of that inside the our own enterprise and give as much feedback to our engineering and product management team so that they can make the customer one experience to be world class. Eso. That's kind of in a nutshell. What we how we go to market with all those products. So >>your customer zero So all the products that they suck up to you Are they afraid of you? >>I think I think it's I think it's a very mutual beneficial relationship. So, you know, they know that they that my feed, my team's feedback is important to how they're kind of shaping up the product. And it's just not necessarily I t right. We have folks in finance, folks and, um, sales, marketing. Everybody is you know, drinking the champagne. Right. And icty and the data team actually enable that deployment. But the use cases are pretty much in the entire enterprise off the company in every in every aspect of it. >>Well, you know, including security. Well, you know, there's I was saying we always talk about alignment, but its's almost alignment by design as opposed to being this force thing. I'm interested in this, you know, sort of snowflake on on snowflake, You know, concept that that you guys talk about. You know what? We're objectives you're going in and maybe thinking about the outcomes, you know? What did you expect? Did you work backwards from that? You know, what were you trying >>to achieve? Yeah. I mean, look the again, back to the first principles. We believe we want to measure everything that's important to our business. That would drive the outright outcomes. We then later the application layer. We then overlay the business process layer. We then overlay the, um, compliance and security layer and and the end result really is operational izing snowflake internally to drive a business making the right choices, right? Decisions for the company. Yeah. So we have a ton of use cases that are just ideal. Um, using snowflake on Snowflake. Um, you know, I can give you some examples of that if you like, But Security being one of the biggest use cases way use the the entire monitoring and remediation work that goes in the security compliance world all through snowflake. And we're finding real time events through data sharing with our key suppliers. And we're ensuring that we're protecting our environment as much as possible with that whole infrastructure. >>If you talk about layering, you know, governance, security, it's etcetera. Yeah, I'm imagining a you know, a coat of primer paint, you know, nice and smooth over. It's not a bolt on. I want you. I wanna press you on that because because it can't be an afterthought. And what you're describing is much more of a modern approach. And I want you to sort of differentiate between the layers that you talked about and what you surely seen in your experience over the years is a bolt on. What's the difference? >>Well, I mean, you know, security. Well, there's a lot of data and a lot of the data that is critical to your environment. Um, you wanna make sure it's fully complete? You're getting it in the right hands in the right platform to understand that and doing the correlation work that needs to happen. Really time. Our platform allows all that data to be ingested and, you know, real time and anything that is suspicious. That's being out there. We're finding that stuff in real time. The monitoring has to be real time. And if there is an event, somebody needs to take an action. Real time. Eso the platform allows it to integrate all together. And basically, um, the suppliers that we're using are also doing data sharing with us on this platform. So it makes the whole security remediation to be really, really fantastic experience. >>Well, I think two I share often with my audiences. When I talked to practitioners, they're using stuff like they surprising to me. When I first heard this, they said, Well, what you chose snowflake is the security. I went What? But the simplicity and the workflow is simpler, and it just means, you know, less human labor involved in setting, setting these things up. So I wonder if you could talk about the team that you put together the culture that you're you're building And you know what? What's the makeup look like? >>Sure s o e specifically asking about the characteristics off how we're building up the culture. Yeah, absolutely. Okay, So I think they're looking for, you know, obviously very much high energy folks. People who have hi accountability, their data driven. We want to measure everything that's important to us. We're looking for folks who have situational awareness on then finally, high sense of urgency. I think all of these elements, uh, allows I t organization to be integrated with the business in law of the traditional companies. I T organizations kind of disintegrate with the business. We wanna integrate with the business to drive the best outcomes that are needed for the company. >>I want to ask you about some of your favorite use cases, but you mentioned measurement. How do you measure? What do you What do you measuring? >>Uh, sure. So I would say that Let's let's just take security because we talked about security. Let's just use security as a use case. Eso insecurity. There are many different frameworks. As you may know, right, there is the nest framework. There is a C s framework. Um, there's a I S O framework we have adopted towards a CS framework inside Snowflake. Ah, that framework has 20 controls. And that 20 controls has, you know, another 20 sub controls. So we're talking about 400 controls? Potentially. Um, not every control is applicable to us, but majority of them are. And so, for every control, that is a source of data that's being ingested in snowflake or give you an example of that is asset management. So asset management for endpoints asset management for our servers or asset management for our network gear, all of that data gets ingested inside. Snowflake. We measure that we can tell you exactly how many endpoints I have. I can tell you exactly when an employee gets on boarded. What the what laptop we have given them. What is Ah, um you know, when the employee leaves the company are recollecting that laptop back on time. Are we revoking all that access? That's part of CS Control. One as an example. And we're measuring all of that and I can tell you exactly at my real time, inside Snowflake, How effective I am for that specific control. That's just an example of that day. Now imagine 400 of these items that make up the whole security CS framework that you know, you want to measure everything on that 400 controls or 400 sub controls. And you want to make sure that if any of that control is not being managed properly, you're alerted about it and you're remediating it to prevent a security issue that might that may pop up >>awesome visibility and the automation component are you Are you the sea? So to sunny? I >>don't really have that title. We don't really have a CSO title, but I do better security. Hadas. Well, it's actually a joint responsibility between I managed the corporate security. The product security is inside the product team, but we use the same common framework. We use the same common telemetry. We use the same common, um um methodology. Uh, incident management response teams are very similar. Andi, it's all power to snowflake. >>Okay? And thank you for watching. Keep it right there. We've got mortgage rate content coming your way