From Average to Exceptional AI: Ensure Fast and Complete Hydration of Your Databricks Lakehouse

ON-DEMAND EVENT

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi recently highlighted that the difference between average and exceptional AI outcomes is the data you haven’t yet brought into the lakehouse, especially the systems still living on-premises. In this session, Senior Manager of Data Engineering and Advanced Databricks User Andrew Chabot demonstrates how CData Sync extends the reach of LakeFlow Connect to hydrate the lakehouse quickly, consistently, and with full governance in Unity Catalog.

You’ll learn:

• How CData Sync extends LakeFlow Connect with secure, connection-based replication from hundreds of enterprise systems

• How to hydrate the Databricks lakehouse using open formats aligned to Unity Catalog governance

• How AIBI and Genie operate on fully hydrated datasets for natural-language analysis and rapid insight generation

• Practical patterns for handling hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments in Databricks pipelines