Posts by Brian Dirking

Databricks has a great partner ecosystem of over 450 partners that are critical to building and delivering the best data and AI solutions in the world for our joint customers.  We are proud of this collaboration and know it’s the result of the mutual commitment and investment that spans on-going training, solution development, field programs...

At Databricks, we are excited to have Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a sponsor of the first virtual Spark + AI Summit. Our work with AWS continues to make Databricks better integrated with other AWS services, making it easier for our customers to drive huge analytics outcomes.   As part of Spark + AI Summit,...

Databricks was proud to be a Platinum sponsor at re:Invent. The past year has been an exciting one for our partnership with AWS, as we built new integrations and deepened existing ones with so many AWS services. re:Invent was a great opportunity to showcase how our joint customers have benefitted from those integrations and we...

Here at Databricks, we are excited to participate in the first Snowflake Summit as a Diamond Partner. The event takes place June 3-6 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and is another great opportunity to share how Databricks and Snowflake have partnered together to provide: Massively scalable data pipelines. Pipelines running on Databricks can...

The value of analytics and machine learning to organizations is well understood. Our recent CIO survey showed that 90% of organizations are investing in analytics, machine learning and AI. But we’ve also noted that the biggest barrier is getting the right data in the right place and in the right format. So we’ve partnered with...

Every enterprise today wants to accelerate innovation by building AI into their business. However, most companies struggle with preparing large datasets for analytics, managing the proliferation of ML frameworks, and moving models in development to production. AWS and Databricks are presenting a series of Dev Day events where we will cover best practices for enterprises...

The most important factor to successful machine learning is having the right data at scale, but organizations struggle with how to get the right datasets combined into the right format for their projects. At Databricks, we've seen customers achieve success by bringing data and ML together, and we've partnered with Snowflake to share their stories...

At Databricks, we are thrilled to announce the integration of RStudio with the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. You can try it out now with this RMarkdown notebook (Rmd | HTML) or visit us at www.databricks.com/rstudio. For R practitioners looking at scaling out R-based advanced analytics to big data, Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform that...

It’s hard to believe that we are already three weeks into 2018. If you’re still struggling to get valuable insights from your data, now is the perfect time to try something new! We recently announced Azure Databricks, a fast, easy and collaborative Apache® Spark™ based analytics platform optimized for Azure. With Azure Databricks, you can help your...