Snowflake Inc. announced new platform innovations designed to make enterprise data AI-ready by default, highlighted by the upcoming general availability of Snowflake Postgres and expanded capabilities for open data interoperability, governance, and resilience.

Snowflake Postgres will allow enterprises to run the world’s most popular database natively inside the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, unifying transactional, analytical, and AI workloads on a single platform. The company said this eliminates complex data pipelines and enables organizations to build applications, analytics, and AI systems directly on live operational data without code changes, while maintaining compatibility with open-source Postgres and Apache Iceberg.

Snowflake also expanded Snowflake Horizon Catalog to improve cross-system data governance and interoperability, enabling customers such as Merck and Motorq to securely access, manage, and govern data across multiple engines and formats without sacrificing policy controls. Additional enhancements include open-format data sharing across Iceberg and Delta Lake, deeper integration with Microsoft OneLake, and new Snowflake Backups to strengthen data resilience against disruptions and security incidents.

The company said the updates are aimed at helping enterprises move AI from experimentation into production by ensuring data remains continuously available, governed, and trusted wherever it resides.

Source: Business Wire