The organisation that shares data in OpenSharing. Recipients also see a provider as a Unity Catalog securable, from which shares can be mounted as catalogs.
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Terms in this definition
- OpenSharing
An open protocol and platform from Azure Databricks for sharing data and AI assets securely, whether with another metastore (Databricks-to-Databricks) or with recipients who don't use Databricks (open sharing).
- Unity Catalog
Azure Databricks' governance solution covering both data and AI in one place, with centralised permissions, auditing, data discovery and lineage.
Related terms
- ACE
Power Query relies on this OLE DB provider to open Access files and older .xls or .xlsb Excel workbooks. Cloud services cannot have it installed, so scheduled refresh of such files goes through a gateway on a machine where ACE is present.
- App connectors
Defender for Cloud Apps plugs into a cloud service through that provider's own APIs, which lets it watch the service's accounts, files and activity and act on them, for instance by suspending someone.
- Built-in authentication for App Service and Container Apps
Easy Auth: sign-in handled by the platform itself (as a sidecar for Container Apps), working with Entra ID, Google, GitHub, Facebook, X or any OpenID Connect provider. Turning on Require authentication turns away anonymous callers; pair it with HTTPS only.
- Classic Tenant Creation
Feature flag in VCF Automation that a provider has to switch on before creating VM Apps organizations, the classic tenancy model, rather than All Apps ones.
- Confidential computing
Keeping data safe while it is being used by processing it in an attested, hardware-based trusted execution environment (TEE), which even the cloud provider cannot see into. It adds to encryption of stored data and data on the move.
- Copilot Studio external threat detection
Preview option in the Power Platform admin center whereby each tool call a generative Copilot Studio agent plans is sent to a provider endpoint, authorised via an Entra app ID, that permits or blocks it; with no reply within one second, the call is allowed.
- CSI
Short for Container Storage Interface, the Kubernetes standard for storage drivers. Using the Azure Key Vault provider, the Secrets Store CSI Driver gives AKS pods a mounted volume containing Key Vault certificates, keys and secrets.
- Device-bound passkey
A passkey tied to one physical device, such as a FIDO2 security key or Microsoft Authenticator, which generates its private key and never lets it leave. Synced passkeys work differently, with a passkey provider copying them from device to device.