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We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorized at the High Impact level, enabling new data and AI use cases across public sector on the dedicated Microsoft Azure Government (MAG) cloud. Azure Databricks is trusted by federal, state and local government agencies, such as the...

Today, at the Data + AI Summit Europe 2020, we shared some exciting updates on the next generation Data Science Workspace - a collaborative environment for modern data teams - originally unveiled at Spark + AI Summit 2020. The power of data and artificial intelligence is already disrupting many industries, yet we've only scratched the...

Earlier this year, Databricks made a massive investment in training by providing free self-paced courses to all of our customers. Databricks furthers this investment by partnering with Coursera to provide Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) training to the larger data community. Together we launched a new three-course specialization, Data Science with Databricks for Data Analysts,...

This week’s Partner Executive Summit, held in concert with Data + AI Summit 2020 Europe, is a feature event for our 500+ partners globally, and we love to share how partners are critical to making a positive impact on our joint customers with their solutions and integrations. Databricks success simply would not and could not...

Data + AI Summit 2020 Europe takes place virtually in just a few days,from 17-19 November - and it’s free to attend! Formerly known as Spark + AI Summit, Data + AI Summit will bring together thousands of data teams to learn from practitioners, leaders, innovators and the original creators of Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow...

Today, we announced the new SQL Analytics service to provide Databricks customers with a first-class experience for performing BI and SQL workloads directly on the data lake. This launch brings to life a new experience within Databricks that data analysts and data engineers are going to love. The service provides a dedicated SQL-native workspace, built-in...

We are pleased to announce the availability of Databricks on the AWS Quick Starts program. With this release, our customers can easily deploy the Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) along with the rest of their infrastructure using a flexible and powerful tool. The AWS Quick Starts include an AWS CloudFormation...

In less than a month, we kick off the inaugural Data + AI Summit Europe, with free general admission and expanding upon the Spark + AI Summit to cover all things data -- analytics, science, engineering and AI. We have an amazing lineup of speakers and training courses, covering the latest in SQL on data...

We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now available in public preview for Microsoft’s Azure China region, enabling new data and AI use cases with fast, reliable and scalable data processing, analytics, data science and machine learning on the cloud. With availability across more than 30 Azure regions, global organizations appreciate the consistency,...

Data + AI Summit Europe will take place 17-19 November and is now open for registration!  Formerly known as the Spark + AI Summit, this free and virtual event is expanded to bring together the world’s leading experts on data analysis, data engineering, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to explore the convergence...