Databricks has introduced its storage ecosystem, powered by OpenSharing, to help organizations connect on-premises, private-cloud, and hybrid data to the Databricks platform without copying the underlying data.

Key highlights

• Govern data where it already lives: OpenSharing gives teams a zero-copy way to connect data across environments instead of relying on migration or replication pipelines.
• Bring Databricks to hybrid data estates: The storage ecosystem is designed to bridge on-premises storage and modern cloud-native analytics with a more consistent governance model.
• Unified access through Unity Catalog: Shared data can appear as governed catalog objects, with access controls and auditability carried into the Databricks environment.
• Built for data that can’t move: This approach is aimed at organizations dealing with sovereignty, compliance, cost, or latency constraints that make cloud migration impractical.
• Backed by an emerging partner ecosystem: OpenSharing already supports on-premises storage partners including MinIO, Everpure, and Qumulo, helping customers connect more of their existing data estate to Databricks.

In the full post, you’ll see how Databricks is shifting the conversation from “move everything to the cloud” to “govern everything”,so teams can unlock analytics and AI on hybrid data estates with less duplication, less operational overhead, and more control.

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