Databricks is acquiring Arcion to provide customers with data ingestion and replication capabilities for data natively created by customers. This acquisition is strategic for Databricks as it will enable customers to synchronize their on-premises operational databases with cloud analytics platforms such as Databricks. In addition, Databricks can already connect to data ingestion tools such as Microsoft’s Azure Data Factory and Fivetran, and with Auto Loader, Databricks can ingest data from cloud data warehouses such as AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
