Databricks Announces 2021 North America Partner Awards
The Databricks Partner Ecosystem of over 450 partners globally are critical to building and delivering the best data and AI solutions in the world. We are proud to collaborate with our partners and recognize that success of our joint customers is the result of mutual commitment and investments in training, solution development, and our ongoing...
Announcing the Labelbox Connector for Databricks
This is a guest authored post by Nick Lee, partnership integration lead, at Labelbox Large data lakes typically house a combination of structured and unstructured data. Data teams often use Apache Spark™ to analyze structured data, but may struggle to apply the same analysis to unstructured, unlabeled data (specifically in the form of images, video,...
Leverage Unused Compute Capacity for Data + AI With Azure Spot Instances and Azure Databricks
Azure Databricks support for Microsoft Azure Spot Virtual Machines (Spot VMs) is now generally available. Together, Spot VMs and Azure Databricks help innovative customers like aluminum and energy producer Hydro accelerate data + AI workloads while optimizing costs. By using Spot VMs as workers for Azure Databricks clusters, you can save up to 90%* on...
Security Best Practices for AWS on Databricks
The Databrick Lakehouse Platform is the world’s first lakehouse architecture -- an open, unified platform to enable all of your analytics workloads. A lakehouse enables true cross-functional collaboration across data teams of data engineers, data scientists, ML engineers, analysts and more. In this article, we will share a list of cloud security features and capabilities...
Customer-managed Key (CMK) Public Previews for Databricks on Azure and AWS
We’re excited to release the Customer-managed key (CMK) public previews for Azure Databricks and Databricks workspaces on AWS (Amazon Web Services), with full support for production deployments. On Microsoft Azure, you can now use your own key to encrypt the notebooks and queries managed by Azure Databricks; this capability is available in the Premium pricing...
Improved Tableau Databricks Connector With Azure AD Authentication Support
With the release of Tableau 2021.1, we have added new functionality to the Tableau Databricks Connector that simplifies security administration and streamlines the connection experience for end users. The updated connector lets Tableau users connect to Azure Databricks with a couple of clicks, using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) credentials and SSO for Tableau Online...
Databricks on Google Cloud Now Generally Available
Today, we announced the general availability of Databricks on Google Cloud, a jointly developed service that combines an open Lakehouse platform with an open cloud. Since the announcement of Databricks on Google Cloud, we have seen tremendous momentum for this partnership as customers pursue a multi-cloud approach to their analytics and DS/ML workloads. Customers are...
Custom DNS With AWS Privatelink for Databricks Workspaces
This post was written in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). We thank co-authors Ranjit Kalidasan, senior solutions architect, and Pratik Mankad, partner solutions architect, of AWS for their contributions. Last week, we were excited to announce the release of AWS PrivateLink for Databricks Workspaces, now in public preview, which enables new patterns and...
Private Databricks Workspaces With AWS PrivateLink Is in Public Preview
We’re excited to announce that PrivateLink connectivity for Databricks workspaces on AWS (Amazon Web Services) is now in public preview, with full support for production deployments. This release applies to all AWS regions supporting E2 architecture, as part of the Enterprise pricing tier. We have received great feedback from our global customers, including large financial...
Azure Databricks Achieves DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Microsoft Azure Government
We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks has received a Provisional Authorization (PA) by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) at Impact Level 5 (IL5), as published in the Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG). The authorization closely follows our FedRAMP High authorization and further validates Azure Databricks security...
