CLOUDFLARE-DATABRICKS PARTNERSHIP TO CUT COST, COMPLEXITY OF SHARING DATA

KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 (Bernama) -- Cloudflare Inc, the security, performance and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, has announced a partnership with Databricks, the data and artificial intelligence (AI) company, to enable organisations to safely, simply and affordably share and collaborate on live data.

According to a statement, with Cloudflare and Databricks, joint customers can eliminate the complexity and dynamic costs that stand in the way of the full potential of multi-cloud analytics and AI initiatives.

“The combination of Cloudflare's massive global network and zero egress storage, along with Databricks' powerful sharing and processing capabilities, will give our joint customers the fastest, most secure and most affordable data sharing capabilities across the globe,” said Cloudflare co-founder and chief executive officer, Matthew Prince.

Databricks is driven by the mission to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems, and enabling organisations to safely share and collaborate on data is critical to achieving that mission.

However many organisations still struggle to share data across clouds, customers, teams and with partners, they often use restrictive platforms and face maintenance burdens, exorbitant egress costs, and a lack of security.

Databricks’ Delta Sharing, the industry’s first open protocol for secure data sharing, makes it simple to share data across teams, and with other organisations, regardless of which computing platforms they use.

Databricks will now support Delta Sharing from Cloudflare R2, Cloudflare’s zero egress, distributed object storage offering.

This seamless integration enables data teams to share live data sets in R2 easily and efficiently, eliminating the need for complex data transfers or duplications of data sets, and with zero egress fees.

This will enable joint customers to ensure they are sharing the most up to date data sets with their partners, suppliers, and lines of businesses, without compromising security and privacy, and without unpredictable, surprise egress fees.

-- BERNAMA