Cloudera acquires Taikun to deliver a cloud experience to data anywhere for AI everywhere

Cloudera announced its acquisition of Taikun. With this move, Cloudera accelerates the deployment and delivery of the complete Cloudera platform, including Data Services and AI anywhere – from the public clouds to on-prem data centers to sovereign and air-gapped environments – all through a unified control plane. 

As enterprise IT environments become more complex and distributed, the need for reliable and scalable data infrastructure has become increasingly critical to support core operations and the growing demands of AI workloads. Cloudera is addressing this challenge head-on by combining its industry-leading data platform with the acquisition of Taikun’s native Kubernetes capabilities, designed to bring simplicity and flexibility to even the most complex environments.

With Taikun’s technology, Cloudera gains a fully integrated compute layer that unifies deployment and operations across the IT stack, delivering a consistent, cloud-like experience anywhere. This brings several key benefits to customers:

• Run anywhere with flexibility ...