Cloudera was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States. It is a leading enterprise data cloud company that enables businesses to access, manage, and analyze data across hybrid cloud environments — spanning public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises data centers. Its platform helps organizations reduce cost, complexity, and risk while accelerating data-driven innovation and AI deployment at scale.

Cloudera delivers a hybrid data platform that integrates secure data management, multi-function analytics, and AI capabilities built on open-source technologies such as Apache Iceberg. The company focuses on providing a true hybrid experience that empowers enterprises to handle any data, anywhere, from the edge to AI, without vendor lock-in or data silos. This platform is designed to support real-time analytics, business-critical AI applications, and governance with enterprise-class security.

Serving global industry leaders across diverse sectors including financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, public sector, energy and utilities, healthcare and life sciences, and retail, Cloudera helps organizations transform digital strategies through trusted data insights. Their solutions aim to optimize operations, enhance customer experiences, improve capacity for data collection and computing performance, and enable rapid deployment of AI applications on secured and governed data.

Since going private in 2021 following acquisition by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR, Cloudera has focused on accelerating product innovation and cloud transformation under the leadership of CEO Rob Bearden. The company hosts the annual EVOLVE conference series to showcase advancements in hybrid data, analytics, and AI, gathering industry visionaries and customers globally to explore AI-driven innovation.

Cloudera’s mission is to empower organizations to make what is impossible today possible tomorrow through the power of data, enabling clear, actionable insights that drive business value and digital transformation.