How Microsoft and Databricks crafted a unique partnership for AI data processing

Microsoft is bringing its Azure Databricks cloud service out of beta today to help its customers better process massive amounts of data, powered by a partnership unlike anything the tech titan has done before. The company worked with Databricks to produce the service, which is an analytics system based on the popular Apache Spark open source project. Customers use it to ingest and process a large amount of data using machine learning techniques. The Azure Databricks service is supposed to give them an easier experience of running big data jobs than rolling their own Spark deployment, and offers a deeper level of compatibility with Microsoft's first-party offerings than other services offered through the Azure Marketplace. This release is a move to capitalize on enterprises' interest in using more data to power artificial intelligence systems.