It was fully understood prior to the Data + AI Summit in San Francisco last week that Databricks Inc. was well-positioned in the marketplace but faced some critical strategic decisions in its future.Those decisions pose particular relevance in the context of artificial intelligence, which the company nodded at with its “generation AI” theme this year. So how might the company plot its route ahead? And how did it perform during the Data + AI Summit? In the view of industry analyst John Furrier, the event hit a “home run” with analysts, demonstrating that generative AI is hitting everything from the physical storage layer, to compute, all the way to the application

As artificial intelligence continues to gain steam through generative AI and large language models, enterprises seek to embrace this cutting-edge technology.Databricks Inc. intends to enhance its data expertise with GenAI, given that the database war no longer exists. Data will be everywhere and AI will be needed for better insights, according to Doug Henschen (pictured, right), vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research Inc.“Databricks is back in their wheelhouse,” Henschen said. “I think generative AI for the last three years, they’ve been building up the warehouse side of their Lakehouse and making a case