How to Save up to 50% on Azure ETL While Improving Data Quality
The challenges of data quality One of the most common issues our customers face is maintaining high data quality standards, especially as they rapidly increase the volume of data they process, analyze and publish. Data validation, data transformation and de-identification can be complex and time-consuming. As data volumes grow, new downstream use cases and applications...
Data Access Governance and 3 Signs You Need it
This is a guest authored post by Heather Devane, content marketing manager, Immuta. Cloud data analytics is only as powerful as the ability to access that data for use. Yet, the data stewards responsible for managing data governance often find themselves in a holding pattern, waiting for approval from various stakeholders to operationalize data assets...
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...
Learn How Disney+ Built Their Streaming Data Analytics Platform With Databricks and AWS to Improve the Customer Experience
Martin Zapletal, Software Engineering Director at Disney+, is presenting at re:Invent 2020 with the session How Disney+ uses fast data ubiquity to improve the customer experience (must be registered to watch but registration is free!). In this breakout session, Martin will showcase Disney+’s architecture using Databricks on AWS for processing and analyzing millions of real-time...
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...
See Databricks at re:Invent and Demystify Your Data
Databricks, founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™ and Delta Lake, is thrilled to be a Platinum sponsor at AWS re:Invent 2020, where you can see how we simplify data engineering, analytics and ML with a unified platform. This year, we are bringing the magic and intrigue to your living room. We’ve got a...
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...
Simplify Access to Delta Lake Tables on Databricks From Serverless Amazon Redshift Spectrum
This post is a collaboration between Databricks and Amazon Web Services (AWS), with contributions by Naseer Ahmed, senior partner architect, Databricks, and guest author Igor Alekseev, partner solutions architect, AWS. For more information on Databricks integrations with AWS services, visit https://databricks.com/aws/ Amazon Redshift recently announced support for Delta Lake tables. In this blog post,...
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...