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The latest Databricks coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Seema Kumar’s Leap from Microsoft to Databricks Signals a New Era for Enterprise AI in India
Seema Kumar, a former top Microsoft executive with deep roots in cloud and AI transformation, has joined Databricks as Director of Field Engineering for India. She announced the career move on...
Kanerika Wins Microsoft Azure Data Warehouse Migration Specialization for Windows Firms
In a significant development for enterprise data management on Microsoft's cloud platform, Kanerika has achieved the Data Warehouse Migration to Microsoft Azure Specialization, joining an elite group...
Atos Autonomous Data & AI Engineer Now Live on Azure for Smarter DataOps
The integration of Atos' Autonomous Data & AI Engineer with Microsoft Azure represents a significant milestone in enterprise data operations, bringing agentic AI capabilities from theoretical...
Atos Debuts Agentic DataOps for Databricks and Snowflake on Azure
The landscape of enterprise data engineering is undergoing a seismic shift with Atos' introduction of the Autonomous Data & AI Engineer on Microsoft Azure. This groundbreaking platform represents...
Databricks and OpenAI Partner to Integrate GPT-5 for Enterprise AI Solutions
Databricks has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to embed advanced AI models, including the highly anticipated GPT-5, directly into its enterprise data platform, marking a significant...
Asda's Major Microsoft AI Expansion: Azure Cloud and Copilot Transform Retail Operations
Asda, one of the UK's leading supermarket chains, has significantly escalated its digital transformation strategy through a renewed multi-year technology partnership with Microsoft that positions...
Point B Passes Microsoft’s Audit for Azure Analytics Specialization – Here’s What It Actually Proves
Point B has clinched one of Microsoft’s most demanding partner credentials—the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization—after passing a third-party audit that validates its ability to...
OpenAI's Apache 2.0 GPT-OSS Models Break Microsoft's Azure Exclusivity, Igniting Multi-Cloud AI Battle
OpenAI upended the enterprise AI landscape on August 5, 2025, by releasing its gpt-oss family of open-weight language models under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. The move, announced alongside...
How Metadata-Driven Zero Trust on Azure Reinforces AI Pipelines Against Modern Attacks
Microsoft’s Azure platform now offers a battle-tested blueprint for locking down machine learning operations using a metadata-driven zero-trust architecture—one that InfoWorld contributor Vikram...
Nimble Gravity’s 50-Staff Fog Solutions Buy Signals Azure AI Consolidation Surge
Nimble Gravity has acquired Fog Solutions, a boutique data and AI firm with deep Microsoft Azure and Databricks expertise, adding approximately 50 U.S.-based specialists to its roster and bringing...
Databricks & Microsoft Expand AI & Data Partnership: What It Means for Enterprises
Databricks and Microsoft have deepened their strategic partnership, signaling a major push to accelerate AI and data innovation for enterprises. The extended collaboration builds on years of...
Databricks Teams with Microsoft to Embed AI Governance into Azure Lakehouse
Microsoft and Databricks have deepened their collaboration with an early extension of their strategic partnership, signaling a major push to simplify and enhance AI and data analytics capabilities on...