• by Ray Schultz , June 21, 2023

Data/AI company Databricks has formed partnerships with several firms, including Twilio, Dell, Oracle and Cloudflare, in an effort to grow what it calls its data sharing ecosystem.  

The firm’s tool, Delta Sharing, is an open solution for sharing live data from any computing platform, the company says.  

“Without an open standard for secure data exchange across organizations, companies find it highly time-consuming to collaborate, requiring export, replication and maintenance of data across many software platforms,” says Matei Zaharia, co-founder and CTO at Databricks.  

Zaharia adds that Delta Sharing provides an “open protocol for sharing data across diverse computing platforms, clouds and regions.” Firms that share data across Databricks include Apache Spark, pandas, PowerBI, Excel and other systems that support the open protocol. 

In addition, partners can share live access to data, AI models and notebooks directly with consumers without costly replication, Databricks says, and consumers can access shared data from multiple compute platforms.

“The ability to easily access and activate quality data is the key to unlocking the full potential of machine learning and AI,” says Kevin Niparko, vice president of product, Twilio Segment.  

Niparko praises “the combined potential of Twilio Segment’s Customer Data Platform, Twilio CustomerAI, and interoperability with the data warehouses that make it simpler for companies to move, analyze and activate their data, and deliver personalized experiences to their customers in real time.”

Dell and Databricks seek to help companies adopt “multi-cloud by design with the newly announced ability to access and combine data across premises and cloud environments, and securely sharing that data through Delta Sharing,” adds Greg Findlen, senior vice president, product management, data management, Dell Technologies.