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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...

Six months ago we introduced the Databricks Runtime for Machine Learning with the goal of making machine learning performant and easy on the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. The Databricks Runtime for ML comes pre-packaged with many ML frameworks and enables distributed training and inference. Today we are excited to release the second iteration including Conda...

As part of the organizing committee and program chairs for this summit, we are delighted to share two achievements with you. First, we have published a preliminary agenda for the Spark + AI Summit in San Francisco on April 23-25, 2019, comprising of 12 technical tracks, with 100+ breakout sessions, on data and AI across...

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Databricks Runtime 5.0. Included in this release is Spark 2.4. This release offers substantial performance increases within key areas of the platform. Benchmarking workloads have shown a 16% improvement in total execution time and Databricks Delta benefits from substantial improvements to metadata caching, improving query latency by...

This is a guest blog from our partners at MongoDB Bryan Reinero and Dana Groce We are happy to announce that the MongoDB Connector for Apache Spark is now officially certified for Azure Databricks. MongoDB Atlas users can integrate Spark and MongoDB in the cloud for advanced analytics and machine learning workloads by using the...

Thanks to our awesome interns! This summer, our Engineering interns at Databricks did amazing work.  Our interns, working on teams from Developer Tools to Machine Learning, built features and improvements which are already impacting our customers and the Apache Spark and AI communities. Spending a summer at Databricks Databricks Engineering internships are a mix of...

Today, we’re excited to announce MLflow v0.7.0, released with new features, including a new MLflow R client API contributed by RStudio. A testament to MLflow’s design goal of an open platform with adoption in the community, RStudio’s contribution extends the MLflow platform to a larger R community of data scientists who use RStudio and R...

Bringing unprecedented reliability and performance to cloud data lakes Designed by Databricks in collaboration with Microsoft, Azure Databricks combines the best of Databricks’ Apache SparkTM-based cloud service and Microsoft Azure. The integrated service provides the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform integrated with the Azure cloud platform, encompassing the Azure Portal; Azure Active Directory; and other data...