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.

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

Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use Azure Databricks, developed in consultation with big data startup ...