Databricks claims its new product Delta is the missing link to enterprise AI

You can't really give a conference keynote in 2017 without staking some sort of claim on AI, so Databricks was smart to keep its credibility, and let its geeky co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia officially open the Spark Summit Europe 2017 yesterday. Instead, Zaharia spoke about streaming data and deep learning -- the engineers and developers in the room ate it up. The conference, organized by Databricks, creators of Apache Spark, brought more than 1200 enthusiasts to Dublin, Ireland this week to learn about what new features and functions will be added to the open source project. The short answer, according to Zaharia is cost based optimization, Python and R improvements, Kubernetes support and more. But that's not what the C-Suite executives whose companies leverage Databricks enterprise-ready, feature-filled version of Spark wanted to know about.