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.

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

Azure Databricks, which is delivered in partnership with Databricks, introduced the Photon-powered Delta Engine September 22.

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 ...