Cloudera Inc. has taken a team approach by expanding its enterprise AI ecosystem to include a diverse range of industry-leading AI providers, building a portfolio of enterprise AI solutions for its customers.

The data management and analytics firm announced partnerships with Amazon Web Services Inc., Nvidia Corp., and Pinecone Systems Inc. last year. Cloudera extended its joint capabilities further in 2024 with collaborations involving Google LLC., Anthropic PBC and Snowflake Inc.

Abhas Ricky, chief strategy officer at Cloudera, talks with theCUBE about the enterprise AI ecosystem.

“The idea is AI as a team sport,” said Abhas Ricky (pictured), chief strategy officer of Cloudera. “The purpose of the enterprise AI ecosystem is to work together with these ‘crème de la crème’ companies out there to be able to get prescriptive solutions provided by the experts on our sites and their sites to make a joint customer successful. That is required because … there is a model every Monday, there’s a framework every Tuesday [and] there’s new benchmark results every Wednesday.”

Ricky spoke with theCUBE Research’s Bob Laliberte and co-host Rebecca Knight at the Cloudera Evolve24 event during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Cloudera’s growing partnership network and providing true hybrid solutions. (* Disclosure below.)

Bringing models to the data within the enterprise AI ecosystem

During his interview with theCUBE, Ricky provided specifics about Cloudera’s most recent partnerships. The company has added over 150 Google Gemini models from the Google Vertex platform, according to Ricky, and partnered with Snowflake on querying data assets within the Cloudera lakehouse through the Apache Iceberg REST catalog. Cloudera has also formed an extensive arrangement with Anthropic.

“We work with Claude Opus or Claude Sonnet 3.4 and a host of others,” Ricky said. “Across all of these capabilities, the idea is [that] you want to be able to bring the models to the data and not the data to the models.”

A central element of Cloudera’s enterprise AI partnership strategy involves the provision of hybrid solutions. Cloudera’s focus on greater interoperability between systems is designed to help customers realize cost efficiency and flexibility for enterprise applications.

“I generally believe we’re the only provider for true hybrid solutions,” Ricky said. “The definition for true hybrid means you have to write once and deploy anywhere in terms of an application. If you can move your workloads and applications bi-directionally between private cloud and public cloud without application refactoring cost, that’s what hybrid means, and that’s what we’re focused on.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of the Cloudera Evolve24 event:

(* Disclosure: Cloudera Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Cloudera nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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