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Briefing
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- Azure Databricks – Microsoft, in partnership with Databricks, announced new unified analytics service catering demand for Spark-based analytics on Microsoft Azure platform
- First-Party Service – Allows users to smoothly launch and scale up Apache Spark in Azure cloud platform, offering simplified, more secure, seamless and easily scalable Spark environment for Azure users
- Cross-Functional Integration – Users can enjoy both Azure’s usual service-level agreements, as well as Databricks’ notebooks and built-in monitoring and security tools
- Next Steps – Only preview was made available, with pricing yet to be announced
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Market Disruption
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Business Model and Practices
Business Model
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Sector
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Information Technology
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Organization
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Databricks, Microsoft Inc.
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Source
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"Databricks becomes Microsoft partner to offer its unified analytics platform as an integrated Microsoft Azure service,"
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Lardinois, F., "Microsoft makes Databricks a first-party service on Azure",
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Schwartz, J., "Microsoft launches preview of Azure Databricks",
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Krazit, T., "Microsoft launches Azure Databricks, a new cloud data platform based on Apache Spark",
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AcceleratingBiz analysis
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Original Publication Date
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November 15, 2017
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