Cloudera, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a hybrid data and AI platform company. It enables enterprises to deploy artificial intelligence and analytics on data residing in public clouds, on-premises data centres, and at the edge. The firm's technology underpins operations across sectors including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, and the public sector.
The company's central offering, the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), provides a unified stack for data engineering, machine learning, data warehousing, operational databases, and data streaming. CDP is designed to deliver self-service analytics across hybrid, on-premise, and multi-cloud environments. Cloudera manages a volume of data that it states is comparable in scale to that held by the major cloud hyperscalers.
Cloudera's approach is rooted in open-source innovation while focusing on enterprise-grade security, governance, and compliance. The company's technical domains span data management, machine learning, and hybrid cloud architecture, positioning it at the intersection of large-scale data infrastructure and applied artificial intelligence.