Acquisition accelerates Cloudera’s mission to enable enterprises to take control of their data estates
Santa Clara, California, USA-headquartered Cloudera, has announced its acquisition of the Czech Republic based 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-premise data centres 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.
Simplicity and flexibility
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. Thus customers can deploy data and AI workloads in the data centre, 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 centres, providing best-in-class solutions with cloud, data, and services anywhere, delivering business value and intelligence everywhere.
Furthermore, 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.
‘Bring your own engine’ approach
Customers can take a ‘bring your own engine’ approach by easily integrating tools and databases from Cloudera and its broad partner ecosystem. Also, 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,” affirmed 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,” he added.
“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,” asserted Adam Skotnicky, former CEO, Taikun.
