# Cloudera

> Cloudera sells a subscription-based enterprise data and AI platform for organizations whose information is scattered across public clouds, private data centers, edge systems and regulated environments. Its pitch is control: customers can engineer, govern, analyze and stream data, then build and run AI close to where that data already lives, using a platform grounded in open-source technologies and deployable across infrastructure boundaries.

- **Founded:** 2008
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, United States
- **Founders:** Christophe Bisciglia (Co-founder; former Google engineer), Amr Awadallah (Co-founder; former Yahoo engineering executive), Jeff Hammerbacher (Co-founder; former Facebook data leader), Mike Olson (Co-founder and founding CEO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 3,500 employees, based on the supplied company record.
- **Products:** Cloudera Platform, Cloudera AI, Open Data Lakehouse, Unified Data Fabric, Data in Motion
- **Notable:** Helped commercialize Apache Hadoop for enterprise use after its 2008 founding., Completed a merger with Hortonworks in January 2019, combining two major Hadoop distributions., Went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2017 and was acquired by CD&R and KKR for approximately $5.3 billion in 2021.

## Products & services

- **Cloudera Platform** — The umbrella data and AI platform, deployable on public cloud or on premises with shared security, governance and metadata.
- **Cloudera AI** — Workbenches, inference, studios and assistants for building, governing and operating private enterprise AI applications and models.
- **Open Data Lakehouse** — An Apache Iceberg-based architecture combining open storage with data engineering, operational database and warehouse workloads.
- **Unified Data Fabric** — Catalog, lineage, observability, visualization and the Shared Data Experience policy layer for trusted access across distributed estates.
- **Data in Motion** — Data Flow, Streaming and Edge Management services built around technologies including Apache NiFi, Kafka and Flink.
- **Cloudera Object Store** — S3-compatible, scalable object storage powered by Apache Ozone for private and hybrid environments.
- **Professional Services, Support and Education** — Migration, architecture, technical support, training and certification sold around the platform.

## Achievements

- Helped commercialize Apache Hadoop for enterprise use after its 2008 founding.
- Completed a merger with Hortonworks in January 2019, combining two major Hadoop distributions.
- Went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2017 and was acquired by CD&R and KKR for approximately $5.3 billion in 2021.
- Says it manages more than 25 exabytes of data and surpassed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in FY2026.
- Acquired Verta's operational AI platform, Octopai's lineage and catalog technology, and Taikun's Kubernetes platform in a 14-month period.
- Achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization in 2025 and AWS AI Competency status in 2026.
- Maintains a substantial public open-source footprint, with more than 200 repositories visible on its GitHub organization.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Cloudera reported that 95% of enterprises surveyed had delayed AI projects because of infrastructure limitations, framing the issue as a broad AI re-architecture.
- **2026-07** — Cloudera said it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave for Data Lakehouses, Q3 2026.
- **2026-07** — Cloudera and VAST Data announced a strategic partnership to deliver their combined AI data platform across deployment environments.
- **2026-07** — Cloudera and Mercy Corps expanded their collaboration around agentic AI for humanitarian response.
- **2026-06** — Cloudera adopted Apache Polaris to support open, governed data access for enterprise AI.
- **2026-05** — Cloudera launched a zero-copy connector between its Workflow Data Fabric and ServiceNow.
- **2026-04** — Cloudera achieved the AWS AI Competency.
- **2026-02** — Cloudera reported more than $1 billion in annual recurring revenue for fiscal 2026.

## Links

- Website: https://www.cloudera.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudera/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/cloudera
- GitHub: https://github.com/cloudera
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Cloudera
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cloudera/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cloudera/

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Last updated: 2026-08-15