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Open Databricks Makes Variant and Variant Shredding Generally Available 04 Aug 2026 · Ronald

Databricks Makes Variant and Variant Shredding Generally Available

Databricks has moved its Variant data type and Variant Shredding optimisation into general availability. The release is designed to preserve flexible ingestion for semi-structured data while automatically improving query performance across Delta and Iceberg workloads, including data used by analytics and AI applications.

Open Databricks Completes Panther Deal to Expand Agentic Security 04 Aug 2026 · Ronald

Databricks Completes Panther Deal to Expand Agentic Security

Databricks has completed its acquisition of Panther, bringing the security operations vendor’s detection engine, workflows and integrations into its Lakewatch security lakehouse strategy. The combined pitch centres on open telemetry storage and AI agents that can triage, investigate and refine detections across enterprise data.