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Databricks Delivers Microsoft Azure Databricks Addressing Customer DemandSAN FRANCISCO, March 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Databricks, provider of the leading Unified Analytics Platform powered by Apache Spark™, today announced general availability of Microsoft Azure Databricks. Azure Databricks is Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform offered as an integrated service within the Azure cloud platform. Organizations from around the globe using Azure Databricks are now deriving value from their Big Data and realizing the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Designed by Databricks in collaboration with Microsoft, Azure Databricks combines the best of Databricks’ Spark-based cloud service and Azure to help customers accelerate innovation with one-click set up, streamlined workflows and an interactive workspace that enables collaboration between data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts. The integrated service provides Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform integrated with the Azure cloud platform, encompassing the Azure Portal; Azure Active Directory; and other data services on Azure, including Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Lake Store; and Microsoft Power BI. Lennox International is a global leader in the heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration markets. “At Lennox International, we supply WiFi enabled thermostats. With Microsoft Azure Databricks, we moved from 60 percent efficiency to 94 percent efficiency on detecting switch failures. Using Azure Databricks has opened the flood gates to all kinds of new use cases inside Lennox International. In our previous process, 15 devices in 15 homes, which crate 2 million records, took 6 hours to process. With Azure Databricks, we are able to process 25,000 homes – 10 billion records – in 14 minutes.”
E.ON is an international private energy company. “Every day, we analyze nearly a terabyte of wind turbine data to optimize our data models. Before, that took several hours. With Microsoft Azure Databricks, it takes a few minutes. This opens a whole range of possible new applications.”?
Databricks and Microsoft Collaboration Unites Data and AI for Azure Customers
“Our collaboration with Microsoft builds on our momentum as a leading cloud platform for Apache Spark-based analytics. The ability to provide our Unified Analytics Platform to all Microsoft Azure users in such an integrated fashion is invaluable to end users looking to simplify big data and AI.”
See additional details about Azure Databricks within the executive blog co-authored by Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data and Ali Ghodsi, CEO at Databricks: Azure Databricks, industry-leading analytics platform powered by Apache Spark™. About Databricks Apache, Apache Spark and Spark are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation. Media Contact: |