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Mid East Info
4 days ago
- Business
- Mid East Info
Cloudera Acquires Taikun to Deliver Cloud Experience to Data Anywhere for AI Everywhere - Middle East Business News and Information
Acquisition accelerates Cloudera's mission to enable enterprises to take back control of their data estates across any environment Dubai, UAE, August 7, 2025 – Cloudera , the only data and AI platform company that brings the cloud anywhere, today announced its acquisition of Taikun , a leading platform provider for managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 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 and control: Customers can deploy data and AI workloads in the data center, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments without sacrificing performance or freedom of choice. Taikun supports highly-regulated environments such as GovCloud, Sovereign Cloud, and air-gapped data centers, providing best-in-class solutions with cloud, data, and services anywhere, delivering business value and intelligence everywhere. Streamlined operations with seamless upgrades: The integrated compute layer enables zero-downtime upgrades and tighter resource optimization, helping customers increase efficiency and reduce operational risk, while reducing the total cost of ownership. Faster adoption of Cloudera and partner technologies: Customers can take a 'bring your own engine' approach by easily integrating tools and databases from Cloudera and its broad partner ecosystem – from Cloudera Data Services and popular technologies in Cloudera like Spark, HBase, Ozone, Kafka, and Trino to third-party graph databases and more. Prepare for the future with a Cloud anywhere architecture: By preserving choice and expanding deployment options, Cloudera ensures long-term flexibility and alignment with customer needs as business mandates evolve. 'This acquisition marks a pivotal step in our mission to bring the cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides,' said Charles Sansbury, CEO, Cloudera. 'By integrating Taikun's container-native platform in our stack, we are removing operational barriers and enabling our customers to unlock faster insights, make smarter decisions, and drive real-time action in every corner of their business.' As part of the acquisition, Taikun's engineering team will join Cloudera's Engineering, Product, and Support organization, bringing deep technical expertise in Kubernetes. Additionally, Taikun, based in the Czech Republic, will be a new European development hub for Cloudera, reinforcing its commitment to innovation across the region. 'Our acquisition by Cloudera marks a pivotal moment for us,' said Adam Skotnicky, former CEO of Taikun. 'Our advanced cloud-native computing platform will enable customers from across the globe to deliver and deploy services and applications seamlessly, whether that's in the data center or in multi-cloud environments. Only Cloudera is the right organization for us to join during this critical moment for data and AI.' 'Organizations are suffering more than ever from fragmented data and application management across diverse infrastructures, increasing complexity, costs, and limiting data/AI initiatives,' said Sanjeev Mohan, Principal, SanjMo. 'The result: compromise on workload placement and data analysis. With Cloudera's acquisition of Taikun and integration in Cloudera's platform, organizations can now run AI and analytics anywhere their data lives — from cloud to edge — accelerating insights, empowering smarter choices, and driving real-time responses throughout their organization.' This marks Cloudera's third strategic acquisition in just 14 months, following the purchase of Verta's operational AI platform in May 2024 and Octopai's data lineage and catalog solution in November 2024. These strategic acquisitions reflect Cloudera's continued investment in strengthening its platform, ensuring customers have the flexibility to run data and AI workloads wherever it makes the most sense, without compromise.
Channel Post MEA
6 days ago
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Cloudera Acquires Czech Company Taikun To Power AI Anywhere
Cloudera has announced its acquisition of Taikun, a leading platform provider for managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 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 and control: Customers can deploy data and AI workloads in the data center, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments without sacrificing performance or freedom of choice. Taikun supports highly-regulated environments such as GovCloud, Sovereign Cloud, and air-gapped data centers, providing best-in-class solutions with cloud, data, and services anywhere, delivering business value and intelligence everywhere. Streamlined operations with seamless upgrades: The integrated compute layer enables zero-downtime upgrades and tighter resource optimization, helping customers increase efficiency and reduce operational risk, while reducing the total cost of ownership. Faster adoption of Cloudera and partner technologies: Customers can take a 'bring your own engine' approach by easily integrating tools and databases from Cloudera and its broad partner ecosystem – from Cloudera Data Services and popular technologies in Cloudera like Spark, HBase, Ozone, Kafka, and Trino to third-party graph databases and more. Prepare for the future with a Cloud anywhere architecture: By preserving choice and expanding deployment options, Cloudera ensures long-term flexibility and alignment with customer needs as business mandates evolve. 'This acquisition marks a pivotal step in our mission to bring the cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides,' said Charles Sansbury, CEO, Cloudera. 'By integrating Taikun's container-native platform in our stack, we are removing operational barriers and enabling our customers to unlock faster insights, make smarter decisions, and drive real-time action in every corner of their business.' As part of the acquisition, Taikun's engineering team will join Cloudera's Engineering, Product, and Support organization, bringing deep technical expertise in Kubernetes. Additionally, Taikun, based in the Czech Republic, will be a new European development hub for Cloudera, reinforcing its commitment to innovation across the region. 'Our acquisition by Cloudera marks a pivotal moment for us,' said Adam Skotnicky, former CEO of Taikun, 'Our advanced cloud-native computing platform will enable customers from across the globe to deliver and deploy services and applications seamlessly, whether that's in the data center or in multi-cloud environments. Only Cloudera is the right organization for us to join during this critical moment for data and AI.' 'Organizations are suffering more than ever from fragmented data and application management across diverse infrastructures, increasing complexity, costs, and limiting data/AI initiatives,' said Sanjeev Mohan, Principal, SanjMo. 'The result: compromise on workload placement and data analysis. With Cloudera's acquisition of Taikun and integration in Cloudera's platform, organizations can now run AI and analytics anywhere their data lives — from cloud to edge — accelerating insights, empowering smarter choices, and driving real-time responses throughout their organization.' This marks Cloudera's third strategic acquisition in just 14 months, following the purchase of Verta's operational AI platform in May 2024 and Octopai's data lineage and catalog solution in November 2024. These strategic acquisitions reflect Cloudera's continued investment in strengthening its platform, ensuring customers have the flexibility to run data and AI workloads wherever it makes the most sense, without compromise.
Time of India
6 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Cloudera acquires Taikun to deliver cloud experience to data anywhere for AI everywhere
Cloudera , the only data and AI platform company that brings the cloud anywhere, today announced its acquisition of Taikun , a leading platform provider for managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 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 and control: Customers can deploy data and AI workloads in the data center, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments without sacrificing performance or freedom of choice. Taikun supports highly-regulated environments such as GovCloud, Sovereign Cloud, and air-gapped data centers, providing best-in-class solutions with cloud, data, and services anywhere, delivering business value and intelligence operations with seamless upgrades: The integrated compute layer enables zero-downtime upgrades and tighter resource optimization, helping customers increase efficiency and reduce operational risk, while reducing the total cost of adoption of Cloudera and partner technologies: Customers can take a 'bring your own engine' approach by easily integrating tools and databases from Cloudera and its broad partner ecosystem – from Cloudera Data Services and popular technologies in Cloudera like Spark, HBase, Ozone, Kafka, and Trino to third-party graph databases and for the future with a Cloud anywhere architecture: By preserving choice and expanding deployment options, Cloudera ensures long-term flexibility and alignment with customer needs as business mandates evolve. 'This acquisition marks a pivotal step in our mission to bring the cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides,' said Charles Sansbury, CEO, Cloudera. 'By integrating Taikun's container-native platform in our stack, we are removing operational barriers and enabling our customers to unlock faster insights, make smarter decisions, and drive real-time action in every corner of their business.' As part of the acquisition, Taikun's engineering team will join Cloudera's Engineering, Product, and Support organization, bringing deep technical expertise in Kubernetes. Additionally, Taikun, based in the Czech Republic, will be a new European development hub for Cloudera, reinforcing its commitment to innovation across the region. 'Our acquisition by Cloudera marks a pivotal moment for us,' said Adam Skotnicky, former CEO of Taikun, 'Our advanced cloud-native computing platform will enable customers from across the globe to deliver and deploy services and applications seamlessly, whether that's in the data center or in multi-cloud environments. Only Cloudera is the right organization for us to join during this critical moment for data and AI.' 'Organizations are suffering more than ever from fragmented data and application management across diverse infrastructures, increasing complexity, costs, and limiting data/AI initiatives,' said Sanjeev Mohan, Principal, SanjMo. 'The result: compromise on workload placement and data analysis. With Cloudera's acquisition of Taikun and integration in Cloudera's platform, organizations can now run AI and analytics anywhere their data lives — from cloud to edge — accelerating insights, empowering smarter choices, and driving real-time responses throughout their organization.' This marks Cloudera's third strategic acquisition in just 14 months, following the purchase of Verta's operational AI platform in May 2024 and Octopai's data lineage and catalog solution in November 2024. These strategic acquisitions reflect Cloudera's continued investment in strengthening its platform, ensuring customers have the flexibility to run data and AI workloads wherever it makes the most sense, without compromise.
Techday NZ
6 days ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Cloudera acquires Taikun to boost data & AI across all clouds
Cloudera has acquired Taikun, a platform provider for managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, to strengthen its data and AI platform across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Cloudera's move allows the company to accelerate deployment of its platform, including Data Services and artificial intelligence workloads, across a range of settings from public clouds and on-premises data centres to sovereign and air-gapped environments, all managed through a unified control structure. The need for more reliable and scalable data infrastructure has grown as enterprise IT environments become increasingly complex and distributed. The acquisition of Taikun provides Cloudera with native Kubernetes capabilities aimed at enabling simpler and more flexible operations, even within highly regulated or distributed contexts. Cloud-like operation anywhere Taikun's technology will give Cloudera an integrated compute layer, uniting deployment and operations throughout the information technology stack. This aims to deliver a cloud-like experience consistently across different environments. Customers will gain the flexibility to run data and AI workloads in data centres, clouds, or hybrid settings without compromising on performance or control. Among the benefits highlighted are support for highly regulated environments such as GovCloud, Sovereign Cloud, and air-gapped data centres. Taikun's integration is expected to increase operational efficiency through zero-downtime upgrades and improved resource optimisation. Customers will also have the option to integrate a variety of tools and databases from Cloudera's ecosystem and third-party providers using a "bring your own engine" approach. Cloudera described the acquisition as part of its approach to ensuring long-term flexibility for customers, enabling adaptation to future business mandates and maintaining alignment with changing requirements for data and AI workloads. Executive perspectives "This acquisition marks a pivotal step in our mission to bring the cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides," said Charles Sansbury, CEO, Cloudera. "By integrating Taikun's container-native platform in our stack, we are removing operational barriers and enabling our customers to unlock faster insights, make smarter decisions, and drive real-time action in every corner of their business." Following the deal, Taikun's engineering team will join Cloudera's broader engineering, product, and support organisation, with Taikun's base in the Czech Republic becoming a European development hub for Cloudera. "Our acquisition by Cloudera marks a pivotal moment for us," said Adam Skotnicky, former CEO of Taikun, "Our advanced cloud-native computing platform will enable customers from across the globe to deliver and deploy services and applications seamlessly, whether that's in the data centre or in multi-cloud environments. Only Cloudera is the right organisation for us to join during this critical moment for data and AI." Industry analysts noted the challenges organisations face due to dispersed data and application management, and suggested that the merger could provide improvements for AI and analytics across diverse environments. "Organisations are suffering more than ever from fragmented data and application management across diverse infrastructures, increasing complexity, costs, and limiting data/AI initiatives," said Sanjeev Mohan, Principal, SanjMo. "The result: compromise on workload placement and data analysis. With Cloudera's acquisition of Taikun and integration in Cloudera's platform, organisations can now run AI and analytics anywhere their data lives - from cloud to edge - accelerating insights, empowering smarter choices, and driving real-time responses throughout their organisation." Acquisition strategy This is Cloudera's third acquisition in 14 months, following the purchase of Verta's operational AI platform in May 2024 and Octopai's data lineage and catalogue solution in November 2024. These acquisitions have been aimed at reinforcing Cloudera's platform and ensuring customers have flexibility in how and where they manage data and AI workloads. Follow us on: Share on:
Techday NZ
6 days ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Cloudera expands multi-cloud AI reach with Taikun acquisition
Cloudera has announced its acquisition of Taikun, a platform provider specialising in Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The move expands Cloudera's ability to deliver its data and AI platform across public clouds, on-premise data centres, and sovereign or air-gapped environments through a single unified control plane. The integration brings a fully integrated compute layer to Cloudera's stack, aiming to streamline deployment and operations for enterprise IT teams. Industry context According to research from Gartner, organisations implementing multi-cloud architectures often experience difficulties in connecting to, and between, different cloud providers. The research suggests that more than 50% of such organisations are expected to fall short of their intended outcomes by 2029. Australian businesses and others operating in the region face ongoing challenges related to fragmented data and application management across increasingly diverse infrastructures. Cloudera's acquisition of Taikun is positioned as a means to address these issues by simplifying operations and supporting better governed business decisions. Strategic aims The acquisition is designed to accelerate the roll-out of Cloudera's complete platform, including Data Services and support for AI, to any environment where enterprise data resides. Taikun's technology offers a container-native approach to managing data and workloads, supporting highly regulated environments such as GovCloud, Sovereign Cloud, and air-gapped data centres. Customers using the integrated Cloudera and Taikun platform will be able to deploy data and AI workloads across a variety of settings - data centres, cloud, or hybrid environments - without impacting performance or limiting their choice of deployment. The combined platform aims to provide a consistent cloud-like experience, even in complex and regulated circumstances. Operational benefits Key advantages outlined include the ability to conduct zero-downtime upgrades and optimised resource allocation, which are expected to boost operational efficiency and lower the total cost of ownership. Customers can also adopt a flexible approach to integrating a wide range of tools and databases, including those from Cloudera partners and third-party providers. The underlying architecture is intended to preserve long-term flexibility for enterprise customers, enabling future readiness as business requirements evolve. Leadership perspectives "This acquisition marks a pivotal step in our mission to bring the cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides," Charles Sansbury, Chief Executive Officer of Cloudera, said. "By integrating Taikun's container-native platform in our stack, we are removing operational barriers and enabling our customers to unlock faster insights, make smarter decisions, and drive real-time action in every corner of their business." As part of the acquisition, Taikun's engineering team will become part of Cloudera's wider engineering, product, and support organisation. Cloudera will also establish a new European development hub in the Czech Republic, reflecting Taikun's headquarters and further reinforcing Cloudera's commitment to the region. Adam Skotnicky, former Chief Executive Officer of Taikun, commented: "Our acquisition by Cloudera marks a pivotal moment for us. Our advanced cloud-native computing platform will enable customers from across the globe to deliver and deploy services and applications seamlessly, whether that's in the data centre or in multi-cloud environments. Only Cloudera is the right organisation for us to join during this critical moment for data and AI." Analyst view Sanjeev Mohan, Principal at SanjMo, addressed the broader industry implications, stating: "Organisations are suffering more than ever from fragmented data and application management across diverse infrastructures, increasing complexity, costs, and limiting data/AI initiatives." The result: compromise on workload placement and data analysis. With Cloudera's acquisition of Taikun and integration in Cloudera's platform, organisations can now run AI and analytics anywhere their data lives - from cloud to edge - accelerating insights, empowering smarter choices, and driving real-time responses throughout their organisation." Recent acquisitions This acquisition marks Cloudera's third strategic purchase within the past 14 months, following earlier acquisitions of an operational AI platform from Verta in May 2024 and Octopai's data lineage and catalogue solution in November 2024. According to the company, these acquisitions are intended to strengthen its platform and provide customers with increased flexibility on where and how they run data and AI workloads.
