Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks Inc., will speak at a Bloomberg Technology television interview in San Francisco on October 22, 2019.
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Databricks said Wednesday that its software for storing and analyzing large datasets is available on Google’s public cloud.
The launch opens a new growth channel for a company that aims to be ready for an initial public offering this year. At the same time, Google will have access to a piece of mobile software previously only available through its two major U.S. cloud competitors, Amazon and Microsoft.
Databricks has also updated their software to enable clients to deploy systems running on the Google cloud and migrate them to the servers on their premises with minimal effort, the co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. Historically, Databricks was only available as a cloud-based service.
“We’ve been pushed by customers to do this for years,” he said.
To get to that, Databricks worked with Google engineers to modify its software so that it can run inside a virtual machine, a lighter alternative to the more traditional virtual machine software started by VMware. The software will run at the top of Google’s cloud service based on Kubernetes, a container management tool that Google released under an open source license in 2014.
Kubernetes will take away the underlying computing infrastructure, freeing up programs to do more innovative work, said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.
Databricks ’revenue to Google’s cloud market could lead to an increase in consumption of Google’s cloud computing and storage resources, which are behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Snowflake, which owns various data storage software, backed Google’s cloud in 2019, ahead of their first 2020 public offering.
“We drive billions in revenue to cloud vendors, so they need us,” Ghodsi said in an interview earlier this month. ‘We’re the killer app . ” Organizations rely on Databricks to process many different types of data, so that it can be used in applications or analyzed in data analysis tools such as Google-owned Looker.
Databricks and Google first started discussing collaboration two years ago. Ghodsi said he spoke to Kurian last week when he joined Google, replacing Diane Greene who was CEO of VMware.
“Google has transformed it since it merged,” Ghodsi said. “We’re seeing even the same team members we’ve worked with before, just the kind of cadence and the ability to execute has changed a lot, and it’s awful to see.”
CapitalG, a corporate venture division within parent company Google Alphabet, participated in Databricks’ latest funding round, announced earlier this month. Databricks had been in talks with CapitalG for more than a year, Ghodsi said.
Databricks surpassed $ 425 million in annual recycling revenue in fiscal year 2021, up 75% year-over-year, Ghodsi said. The company has more than 1,800 employees, according to LinkedIn.
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