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

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.

Microsoft has announced that Azure Databricks is now available to the general public. With Azure Databricks, Microsoft has laid emphasis on productivity, scalability, and security.

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft EVP of Cloud & Enterprise. Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use Azure Databricks ...

Who needs rewrites? This metadata-powered architecture fuses AI and ETL so smoothly, it turns pipelines into self-evolving engines of insight.