Databricks brings something to share; Datadog goes for a DASH
Today on Product Saturday: Databricks introduces an open-source proposal for sharing corporate data, Datadog adds more bits to Bits AI, and the quote of the week.
Today: Ahead of this year's Snowflake/Databricks annual events, a look at the push to unify Delta Lake and Iceberg, Salesforce snaps up Informatica, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit Ghodsi pledged to bring Delta Lake and Iceberg together in a "USB-C format" for data. The communities behind both formats have made progress toward that goal, but the last mile is tricky, and new tools could let end users worry about other problems.