Growth-Hacking Impact: Why I’m Joining Databricks
When I look at every wave of computing — be it the advent of mobile or the Internet — there’s a core theme of their underpinnings. The power behind the most impactful technologies, though often invisible, has been robust developer platforms. These platforms spur innovation, creativity and collaboration at a truly global scale and speed...
Announcing the Launch of Databricks on Google Cloud
Today, we are proud to announce the availability of Databricks on Google Cloud. This jointly developed service provides a simple, open lakehouse platform for data engineering, data science, analytics, and machine learning. It brings together the Databricks capabilities customers love with the data analytics solutions and global scale available from Google Cloud. Open data platform...
Security Cluster Connectivity Is Generally Available on Azure Databricks
This is a collaborative post co-authored by Principal Product Manager Premal Shah, Microsoft, and Principal Enterprise Readiness Manager Abhinav Garg, Databricks We're excited to announce the general availability of Secure Cluster Connectivity (also commonly known as No Public IP) on Azure Databricks. This release applies to Microsoft Azure Public Cloud and Azure Government regions, in...
Over 200K Enrolled in Databricks’ Certification and Training
More than 200,000 individuals have participated in Databricks' certification and training over the past four years, including thousands of partners. In the past year alone, over 75,000 individuals have been trained and over 1,500 customers and partners have also earned their Databricks Academy Certifications. Today, we are pleased to announce new digital badges so you...
Lakehouse Architecture Realized: Enabling Data Teams With Faster, Cheaper and More Reliable Open Architectures
Databricks was founded under the vision of using data to solve the world’s toughest problems. We started by building upon our open source roots in Apache Spark™ and creating a thriving collection of projects, including Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas and more. We’ve now built a company with over 1,500 employees helping thousands of data teams...
Databricks Is Named a Visionary in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS)
Last week, Gartner published the Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Cloud Database Management Systems, where Databricks was recognized as a Visionary in the market.1 This was the first time Databricks was included in a database-related Gartner Magic Quadrant. We believe this is due in large part to our investment in Delta Lake and its ability to...
Azure Databricks Now Generally Available in the Azure China Region
We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now generally available in 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, ease of...
The Analytics Evolution With Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse and Power BI
Let’s face it, the landscape of different analytics services and products is complicated and constantly evolving. The Databricks and Microsoft partnership that created Azure Databricks began 4 years ago, and in that time Azure Databricks has evolved along with other Azure services like Azure Synapse. What remains constant is a great story from Databricks and...
Azure Databricks Now Generally Available in Azure Government
We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now generally available (GA) in Microsoft’s Azure Government (MAG) region, enabling new data and AI use cases for federal agencies, state and local governments, public universities, and government contractors to enable faster decisions, more accurate predictions, and unified and collaborative data analytics. More than a dozen...
Azure Databricks Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization on Microsoft Azure Government (MAG)
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...
