Posts by Michael Ortega

We recently hosted the webinar — CIO Survey: Enterprise Challenges to AI and How to Overcome Them — featuring Jen Garofalo, Research Director at IDG, the parent company to CIO.com, and Pat McDonough, VP of Customer Success at Databricks. This webinar covered key findings from a recent CIO.com survey of 200 executives on the topic...

Powering innovation on AWS in life sciences, public sector, machine learning, and big data analytics. Databricks, founded by the original creators of Apache SparkTM, is proud to be a Platinum sponsor at AWS re:Invent. Stop by booth #416 to grab some cool schwag and see demos of MLflow, TensorFlow, Apache Spark, and other  technologies that...

Today we are proud to introduce the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform for Genomics. With a unified platform for genomic data processing, tertiary analytics, and machine learning at massive scale, healthcare and life sciences organizations can accelerate the discovery of life changing treatments and further advancements in personalized and preventative care. The Genomic Data Explosion The...

With over 4 billion subscribers, Viacom is focused on delivering amazing viewing experiences to their global audiences. Core to this strategy is ensuring petabytes of streaming content is delivered flawlessly through web, mobile and streaming applications. This is critically important during popular live events like the MTV Video Music Awards. Streaming this much video can...

High-profile cybersecurity breaches dominated headlines in 2017. In the first half of the year, over 1.9B records were stolen. That’s more than 7,000 records breached every minute. And the fallout from a single event can be staggering. Customer attrition, negative PR and regulatory fines amount to millions in financial losses. In fact, according to recent...