Cloudera, the only data and AI platform company that enables cloud anywhere, announced that it has acquired Taikun, a leading platform company for Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure management across hybrid and multicloud environments. This acquisition will further accelerate Cloudera’s ability to deploy and operate its platform, including data services and AI capabilities, anywhere—public clouds, on-premises data centers, sovereign data environments, and air-gapped environments—all from a single, unified control plane.

As enterprise IT environments become increasingly complex and distributed, the demand for reliable and scalable data infrastructure is becoming increasingly critical, along with the rise of AI workloads. Cloudera is addressing this market demand head-on by combining its industry-leading data platform with Taikun’s native Kubernetes capabilities, designed to deliver simplicity and flexibility even in complex environments.

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Taikun’s technology gives Cloudera a fully integrated computing layer that unifies deployment and operations across the entire IT stack, enabling a consistent, cloud-like user experience everywhere. This delivers key benefits to customers, including:

  • Anywhere execution with flexibility and control: Customers can deploy data and AI workloads anywhere—whether in the data center, cloud, or hybrid environments—without sacrificing performance or freedom of choice. Taikun supports even highly regulated environments, including GovCloud, SovereignCloud, and closed-loop data centers, enabling enterprises to realize business value and insights across all spheres by delivering cloud, data, and services anywhere.
  • Non-disruptive upgrades and optimized operational efficiency: The unified computing layer enables system upgrades without downtime and allows for more precise resource optimization. This allows customers to increase operational efficiency, reduce risk, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
  • Rapid adoption of Cloudera and partner technologies: Customers can easily integrate a variety of tools and databases from Cloudera and its partner ecosystem, achieving a “bring your own engine” approach. This includes Cloudera Data Services, popular technologies like Spark, HBase, Ozone, Kafka, and Trino, as well as external third-party graph databases.
  • Future-proofing with a ‘Cloud Anywhere’ architecture: Cloudera empowers customers with choice and expanded deployment options, enabling them to flexibly adapt to changing business environments. This ensures long-term flexibility and enables strategic alignment with the evolving needs of businesses.

“This acquisition represents a significant milestone in realizing our vision of delivering a cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides,” said Charles Sansbury, Cloudera CEO. “By integrating Taikun’s container-native platform into our technology stack, we’re removing traditional operational barriers and empowering customers to derive insights faster, make smarter decisions, and empower real-time business execution.”

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With this acquisition, Taikun’s engineering team will join Cloudera’s engineering, product, and customer support organizations, bringing with them deep technical expertise in Kubernetes. Headquartered in the Czech Republic, Taikun will become Cloudera’s new development hub in Europe, signaling Cloudera’s commitment to strengthening its innovation capabilities in the region.

“The acquisition of Cloudera is a significant turning point for us,” said Adam Skotnicky, former CEO of Taikun. “Our advanced cloud-native computing platform enables customers to seamlessly deploy and run services and applications, regardless of whether they’re in their data centers or multi-cloud environments. At this critical juncture, there’s no better partner for data and AI than Cloudera.”

Sanjeev Mohan, CEO of SanjMo, also stated, “Organizations today are more challenged than ever before by the fragmentation of data and application management across diverse infrastructures.” The market analyst added, “Complexity and costs increase, data and AI initiatives are constrained, and ultimately, compromises in workload placement and data analytics occur.

However, with Cloudera’s acquisition of Taikun and its integration into its platform, organizations can now run AI and analytics wherever their data resides, accelerating insights, enabling smarter decisions, and enabling real-time response capabilities,” he said, evaluating the positive aspects of the acquisition.

This acquisition marks Cloudera’s third strategic acquisition in 14 months, following its acquisitions of Verta , an operational AI platform , in May 2024 and Octopai, a data lineage and catalog solution, in November 2024. These acquisitions demonstrate Cloudera’s continued investment in strengthening its platform to ensure the flexibility to run data and AI workloads in the most appropriate environment.

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Source – GlobeNewswire

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