Cloudera Set to Acquire Taikun for Cloud Experience Delivery

Cloudera, a data and AI platform company for the cloud, recently announced that it would be acquiring Taikun, a platform provider for managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 

Clouder’s data and AI platform gets Kubernetes expertise boost

This move will enable Cloudera to accelerate the deployment and delivery of the Cloudera platform, including Data Services and AI, anywhere— across public clouds, on-premises data centers, sovereign environments, and air-gapped environments — in a unified control plane.

Through the acquisition, Taikun’s engineering team will join Cloudera’s Engineering, Product, and Support organization, bringing in their Kubernetes expertise. Based in the Czech Republic, Taikun will be a new European development hub for Cloudera.

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

Taikun’s technology will enable Cloudera to access a fully integrated compute layer that unifies deployment and operations across the IT stack, delivering a consistent, cloud-like experience anywhere.

Partners and customers promised bring your engine experience

Cloudera provided a long list of the benefits users will see once the acquisition is completed.

Below is a list of those added and enhanced capabilities:

• Deployment of data and AI workloads in the data center, cloud, or hybrid environments without sacrificing performance or optionality. Taikun supports highly regulated environments, such as GovCloud, Sovereign Cloud, and air-gapped data centers, to provide best-in-class solutions with cloud, data, and services anywhere.
• An integrated compute layer that enables zero-downtime upgrades and resource optimization, helping customers increase efficiency and reduce operational risk, while reducing the total cost of ownership.
• The ability to take a “bring your own engine” approach by simply integrating tools and databases from Cloudera and its broad partner ecosystem, including Cloudera Data Service and technologies in Cloudera like Spark, HBase, Ozone, Kafka, and Trino, as well as third-party graph databases.
• Cloudera ensures long-term flexibility and alignment with customers’ needs as business needs evolve by preserving choice and expanding deployment options.

“Organizations are suffering more than ever from fragmented data and application management across diverse infrastructures, increasing complexity, costs, and limiting data/AI initiatives,” said Sanjeev Mohan, Principal, SanjMo. “The result: compromise on workload placement and data analysis. With Cloudera’s acquisition of Taikun and integration in Cloudera’s platform, organizations can now run AI and analytics anywhere their data lives– from cloud to edge– accelerating insights, empowering smarter choices, and driving real-time responses throughout their organization.”

The acquisition comes on the heels of Cloudera’s 2024 acquisitions of Verta’s operational AI platform and Octopai’s data lineage and catalog solution. 

This acquisition is one of many in recent weeks that have left a solid imprint on the channel. Read more about some of the M&A developments from July.