By certifying Dell ObjectScale with Cloudera, joint customers can process data wherever it resides, with governed metadata and low-latency access.
THE Cloudera, a company dedicated to bringing AI to data everywhere, announces the integration of Dell ObjectScale with Cloudera, advancing their joint AI-in-a-Box offering and creating a complete private AI platform designed for scale, governance, and economic clarity. This collaboration provides joint customers with a fully validated and integrated data platform, enabling them to run all Cloudera compute engines directly on Dell Technologies ObjectScale storage. Cloudera announced the private AI platform during Cloudera EVOLVE25, the company's flagship data and AI event, held on the 25th at Glasshouse NYC.
One of the biggest challenges to enterprise AI success is the complexity of where data resides and how to access it. Indeed, Cloudera's latest report, The Evolution of AI: The State of Enterprise AI and Data Architecture — also announced at the event — found that IT leaders still use diverse storage architectures: 63% cited private cloud, 52% public cloud, and 42% data warehouses. Without the ability to securely manage 100% of corporate data, in all its forms and wherever it resides, it will be impossible to apply AI to workloads and make fully informed strategic decisions.
To address these challenges, Cloudera has collaborated with Dell to enable joint customers to store all their data—structured and unstructured—in one place and access it quickly and securely. As the only data and AI platform company bringing AI to data everywhere, Cloudera empowers companies to organize their data with clear rules, security, and governance. Additionally, the collaboration enables Cloudera users to leverage Dell ObjectScale as an S3-compatible object store for AI workloads, including:
- Cloudera AI Workbench: secure environment to build, train, and refine AI models using governed data.
- Cloudera Inference Service: way to deploy and use these AI models efficiently and cost-effectively at scale.
- Cloudera Agent Studio: tool for designing and using intelligent AI agents that automate tasks in business operations.
Combining Dell's leadership in AI infrastructure with Cloudera's secure data platform and AI tools creates a complete private AI system, delivering significant business value. Companies can get started with AI faster, reduce overall costs, and have complete trust in their AI systems—crucial for highly regulated industries. This solution helps companies overcome the biggest obstacles to AI: data movement, cost, management complexity, and deploying private AI agents with confidence and efficiency.
"Businesses need AI systems that grow with them, keep data secure, and have clear and predictable costs," said Abhas Ricky, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera. "Bringing Dell ObjectScale and Cloudera together enables organizations to industrialize AI use cases with secure data, deploy them efficiently, and create intelligent agents—all with predictable economics and no hidden fees. This is the fastest and most reliable path for large enterprises to put AI into practice."
"This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to providing customers with more flexibility to manage and scale their data," said Travis Vigil, senior vice president of ISG Product Management at Dell Technologies. "With Dell ObjectScale now integrated with Cloudera, we're helping customers bridge the gap between storage and AI for smarter, faster decisions that drive business growth."
About Cloudera
THE Cloudera Cloudera, Inc. is the only data and AI platform company trusted by leading organizations to bring AI to their data, wherever it lives. Unlike other vendors, Cloudera offers a consistent cloud experience that integrates public clouds, data centers, and the edge, leveraging a proven open source foundation. As a pioneer in big data, Cloudera empowers companies to apply AI and take control of their data—in all its forms—by delivering unified security, governance, and real-time predictive insights. The world's largest organizations, across every industry, trust Cloudera to transform decision-making, drive financial results, protect against threats, and save lives.
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