What is Delta Lake and why should you be interested?At Spark+AI Summit Europe 2019, Databricks announced it was giving its Delta Lake technology to the Linux Foundation. It’s a significant move for a company that only earlier this year made that technology open source. The question for many Databricks customers is why do this? What does it mean for us? For those companies that have partnered with Databricks to create integrations between Delta Lake and other software, where does this leave them?

Michael Armbrust, Principal Software Engineer, Databricks, sat down with Enterprise Times to talk about the news. Armbrust also talked about what Delta Lake does and how it can simplify the way companies manage data lakes.

One feature, the use of pipelines, is a major boost for DataOps. The use of pipelines for repeatable import and management of data will improve efficiency and reduce errors. Pipelines also enable security and compliance teams to act on data early. They can add in their own pipelines to remove PII where necessary or introduce anonymisation routines.

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Ian Murphy
Ian Murphy is an enterprise technology journalist, podcaster, editor and industry analyst with more than 40 years' experience covering enterprise IT, cybersecurity, networking, cloud and artificial intelligence. His career combines hands-on technology experience with long-term industry analysis and journalism. In the 1980s, Ian authored an industry report on expert systems, an early application of artificial intelligence, and founded an IT training company delivering accredited training on enterprise software. He later became a Microsoft Certified Trainer, helping professionals understand and apply business technologies. Alongside his work as a freelance journalist and analyst, Ian developed software, deployed enterprise networks and managed software and technical support teams. That practical experience informs his writing, providing insight into not only what technologies promise, but how they are implemented and used in real enterprise environments. Ian has written thousands of articles, produced industry research, hosted podcasts and interviewed technology leaders across enterprise software, infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI. His work focuses on helping CIOs, IT leaders and technology professionals understand the opportunities, challenges and real-world impact of emerging technologies.

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