Cloudera Expands Data And AI Services Deployment, Delivery Capabilities With Acquisition

Cloudera has acquired Taikun and its platform for managing native Kubernetes capabilities, simplifying the deployment of Cloudera data and AI services across hybrid and multi-cloud estates.

Data and AI cloud platform provider Cloudera has acquired Taikun, a developer of technology for managing native Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

With the acquired Taikun technology Cloudera says it can accelerate the deployment and delivery of the complete Cloudera platform, including data services and AI, across public clouds and on-premises data centers, as well as to sovereign and air-gapped environments—all through a unified control plane.

The acquisition is Cloudera’s third in just over a year, including the company’s purchase of Verta and its operational AI platform in May 2024 and the acquisition of data lineage and catalog technology developer Octopai in November.

“This acquisition marks a pivotal step in our mission to bring the cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides,” said Cloudera CEO Charles Sansbury, in a statement. “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.”

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Cloudera said that as part of the acquisition Taikun’s engineering team will join Cloudera’s Engineering, Product and Support organization, “bringing deep technical expertise in Kubernetes,” the company said in the announcement.

Taikun is based in the Czech Republic and said the acquisition also will provide a new European development hub for the company.

Cloudera said the acquisition is a response to increasingly complex and distributed enterprise IT estates, as well as the growing need for reliable and scalable data infrastructure to support both core operations and the demands of AI workloads.

Cloudera said that with the Taikun acquisition Cloudera “gains a fully integrated compute layer that unifies deployment and operations across the IT stack, delivering a consistent, cloud-like experience anywhere.”

With the Taikun technology Cloudera customers will be able to more easily deploy data and AI workloads in the data center, cloud or hybrid environments without compromising performance. Taikun also supports highly regulated environments such as GovCloud, Sovereign Cloud and air-gapped data centers

Cloudera said the integrated compute layer will streamline customer operations and upgrades and make it easier for customers to adopt and implement tools and databases from Cloudera and vendor’s partner ecosystem.

“Our acquisition by Cloudera marks a pivotal moment for us,” said Adam Skotnicky, former CEO of Taikun, “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. Only Cloudera is the right organization for us to join during this critical moment for data and AI.”