Ignite 2019: Microsoft has revved its Azure SQL Data Warehouse, re-branding it Synapse Analytics, and integrating Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory, with a unified Web ...

Microsoft and Databricks have actually worked on this integration since 2016, and this is making Databricks a first-party service on Azure.

Microsoft is bringing its Azure Databricks cloud service out of beta today to help its customers better process massive amounts of data, powered by a partnership unlike anything the tech titan has ...

Data + AI Summit -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, and Microsoft today announced a multi-year early extension of their strategic partnership, underscoring a shared commitment to helping ...

Databricks is a San Francisco-based startup founded by the team that developed the popular open-source Apache Spark data-processing framework at the University of California-Berkeley.

Alinta Energy has gradually replaced most of the Azure-based services that once powered its data architecture with Databricks, an effort it says has substantially cut its running costs.

In a statement, Ben Horowitz said that a16z was “thrilled” to invest in this funding round and that Databricks was the “clear winner in the big data platform race.” The company helped create big data ...

Organizations can improve performance and reduce costs by replacing the stock Databricks Runtime for Machine Learning libraries with versions optimized by Intel. Here’s how to get started.