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Databricks Partners with Google Cloud to Deliver its Platform to Global BusinessesSUNNYVALE, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17, 2021 /CNW/ -- Today, Google Cloud and Databricks announced a new partnership to deliver Databricks at global scale on Google Cloud. Under the partnership, organizations can now use Databricks to create a lakehouse capable of data engineering, data science, machine learning, and analytics on Google Cloud's global, scalable, and elastic network. Databricks on Google Cloud will deeply integrate with Google BigQuery's open platform and will leverage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), enabling customers to deploy Databricks in a fully containerized cloud environment for the first time. With this integrated solution, organizations can unlock AI-driven insights, enable intelligent decision-making, and ultimately accelerate their digital transformations through data-driven applications. "Businesses with a strong foundation of data and analytics are well-positioned to grow and thrive in the next decade," said Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud. "We're delighted to deliver Databricks' lakehouse for AI and ML-driven analytics on Google Cloud. By combining Databricks' capabilities in data engineering and analytics with Google Cloud's global, secure network—and our expertise in analytics and delivering containerized applications—we can help companies transform their businesses through the power of data." "This is a pivotal milestone that underscores our commitment to enable customer flexibility and choice with a seamless experience across cloud platforms," said Ali Ghodsi, CEO and co-founder of Databricks. "We are thrilled to partner with Google Cloud and deliver on our shared vision of a simplified, open, and unified data platform that supports all analytics and AI use-cases that will empower our customers to innovate even faster." "For Condé Nast, finding valuable insights from massive amounts of data is essential for creating world class content experiences that delight our global customers. Databricks on Google Cloud provides a lakehouse for our data engineers, data scientists and analysts to consolidate, collaborate, analyze, and use all of our global data to experiment and innovate quickly. We're excited to see leaders like Google Cloud and Databricks come together to streamline and simplify getting value from data," said Nana Essuman, Director of Data Engineering at Condé Nast. Deploying Databricks rapidly and securely at global scale
Advancing analytics with Databricks, BigQuery, and Google Cloud AI Platform Unique integrations between Databricks and Google Cloud include:
Delivering containerized Databricks deployments for the first time Increasingly, Kubernetes and containers are the de facto orchestration system for enterprise workloads and applications running in the cloud. Databricks on Google Cloud is built on GKE, Google Cloud's secure, managed Kubernetes service, to support containerized deployments of Databricks in the cloud. By adopting GKE as an operating environment, Databricks is able to leverage managed services for security, network policy, and compute and as a result, provide customers with increasing business value through Databricks analytics, AI, and ML capabilities. Additionally, with GKE, Databricks increases its agility and the ability to accelerate the release of new features, quickly, at scale, and at lower cost. Supporting open source innovation and partner collaboration Additionally, members of our joint ecosystem of partners have committed to ensure seamless integrations and expertise with Databricks on Google Cloud, including Accenture, Cognizant, Collibra, Confluent, Deloitte, Fishtown Analytics, Fivetran, Immuta, Informatica, Infoworks, Insight, MongoDB, Privacera, Qlik, SoftServe, Slalom, Tableau, TCS and Trifacta among others. On April 6, join Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi, and Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian as they share more about the partnership and vision of an open, unified data analytics platform during a discussion hosted by TechCrunch; visit the event page for more information. To learn more about Databricks on Google Cloud, visit: https://databricks.com/product/google-cloud About Google Cloud About Databricks Media contacts
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