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Venture with GraceAarti & Dipti Borkar, Microsoft CVP & VP on AI, Data & CybersecurityAarti Borkar is the Corporate Vice President of Customer Success for Microsoft’s $20B+ Security business, where she oversees strategy, customer experience, and a global team of 1,000+. With over two decades in cybersecurity and AI, she has built and scaled billion-dollar businesses, led over a dozen acquisitions, and is a Limited Partner at Operator Collective supporting women-led innovation.Dipti Borkar is Vice President and General Manager at Microsoft and the Founder of Ahana (acquired by IBM), a cloud-native data analytics company that democratized access to big data. A deep technologist with expertise across databases, distributed systems, and data infrastructure, sh...
2025-10-261h 01
The Ravit ShowMicrosoft Fabric, Generative AI, Microsoft Azure Data with Dipti Borkar, VP & GM at MicrosoftIt was great to chat with Dipti Borkar, VP & GM at Microsoft at the Microsoft office in Mountain View. Here are the key points we discussed --
-- Dipti shared her impressive journey, from working with DB2 at IBM to NoSQL databases like Couchbase, and moving to the disaggregated stack with Presto and Spark
-- She explained what Fabric is and how it is transforming the landscape of cloud databases, making them simpler and smarter
-- We talked about the exciting announcements from this year's Microsoft Build, especially in the realm of Azure Data
-- She shared insights from...
2024-08-2914 min
Data Engineering PodcastStitching Together Enterprise Analytics With Microsoft FabricSummary
Data lakehouse architectures have been gaining significant adoption. To accelerate adoption in the enterprise Microsoft has created the Fabric platform, based on their OneLake architecture. In this episode Dipti Borkar shares her experiences working on the product team at Fabric and explains the various use cases for the Fabric service.
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Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
Data lakes are notoriously complex. For data engineers who battle to build and scale high quality data workflows on the data lake, Starburst is an end-to-end data lakehouse...
2024-06-2353 min
Data BytesThe Evolution of Databases with Dipti BorkarOverview
Today’s guest is Dipti Borkar, Vice President and General Manager, SaaS, Azure Databases at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dipti was the Founder and Creator of Ahana, a cloud managed service. Dipit has vast experience working in startups such as Counchbase, and Marklogic, and began her career working as a software engineer for IBM.
In today’s episode, Dipti shares how Databases have evolved over the past 15 years, her predictions for the future of technology and provides actionable advice for those looking to start a career in technology.
About Dipti Borkar
2022-12-0837 min
Building the Backend: Data Solutions that Power Leading OrganizationsArchitecting a Modern Data Lake with Dipti Borkar from AhanaIn this episode of Building The Backend we hear from Dipti Borkar cofounder @ Ahana a managed service for Presto on AWS, where we talk all about the data lake, how it should be structured and where the industry is going. Below are top 3 value bombs: Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine originally created by Facebook, mainly used to run SQL queries on data lakes but can be connected to relational data stores as well. Ahana is a managed Presto service on AWS with 3x price/performance. When optimizing your data lake, it’s...
2021-11-0939 minData Engineering PodcastPresto Powered Cloud Data Lakes At Speed Made Easy With AhanaSummary
The Presto project has become the de facto option for building scalable open source analytics in SQL for the data lake. In recent months the community has focused their efforts on making it the fastest possible option for running your analytics in the cloud. In this episode Dipti Borkar discusses the work that she and her team are doing at Ahana to simplify the work of running your own PrestoDB environment in the cloud. She explains how they are optimizin the runtime to reduce latency and increase query throughput, the ways that they are contributing back...
2021-09-021h 00
Designing Enterprise PlatformsEAR Podcast with Ahana's Dipti Borkar & Steven Mih July 2020This edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR) focuses on data management. EAR’s Dan Woods leads a discussion with Ahana’s Steven Mih and Dipti Borkar about using SQL as an integration point, along with how to use object storage.
Their conversation covers:
4:30 -- Presto's history and relevance to today's data management landscape
18:00 -- How Presto can deliver a single repository on a query
25:45 -- How Ahana plans to be profitable on the support model
35:00 -- Why query engines are valuable to get value from your data
2020-07-1843 minData Engineering PodcastData Orchestration For Hybrid Cloud AnalyticsSummary
The scale and complexity of the systems that we build to satisfy business requirements is increasing as the available tools become more sophisticated. In order to bridge the gap between legacy infrastructure and evolving use cases it is necessary to create a unifying set of components. In this episode Dipti Borkar explains how the emerging category of data orchestration tools fills this need, some of the existing projects that fit in this space, and some of the ways that they can work together to simplify projects such as cloud migration and hybrid cloud environments. It is...
2019-10-2242 min