The CRN Tech Innovator Awards spotlight innovative products and services across 36 categories, with winners chosen by CRN staff from over 320 product applications. This year, we’re excited to share that Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse 7.1.9 release was named a finalist under the category of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics.
These awards, held annually, are intended to help solution providers identify IT products and services that are truly innovative and deliver customer value. The Awards showcase IT vendor offerings that provide significant technology advances – and partner growth opportunities – across technology categories including AI and AI infrastructure, cloud management tools, IT infrastructure and monitoring, networking, data storage, and cybersecurity.
Embracing the Open Data Lakehouse
The selection of Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse signals just how important this platform has become with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) alike.
AI is at the forefront of nearly every business’ list of priorities. Its potential is huge when it comes to carving out a competitive edge or just boosting operational efficiency. But even as adoption continues to accelerate, many organizations find themselves struggling with how to fully tap into the power of AI.
The root of the problem comes down to trusted data. Pockets and siloes of disparate data can accumulate across an enterprise or legacy data warehouses may not be equipped to properly manage a sea of structured and unstructured data at scale. Successful AI implementations require businesses to adequately access and collect, often disparate and siloed, data across hybrid environments.
The latest release of the Open Data Lakehouse on private cloud brings a number of features, expanded support, and capabilities that can make managing that data easier. The latest platform release includes Apache Iceberg support to unlock opportunities for enterprises to apply mission-critical data to AI and address the most error-prone processes, generate new use cases, improve overall performance, and reduce costs.
The platform is truly unique, also offering critical capabilities like zero downtime upgrades and security enhancements to limit disruptions and improve business continuity. Additionally, this release of Open Data Lakehouse includes a mix of Apache Ozone capabilities, like quotas, snapshots, and disaster recovery enhancements. Open Data Lakehouse also offers expanded support for Python 3.10 and RHEL 9.1, all of which add another layer of compatibility and flexibility.
Driving AI Innovation on the Open Data Lakehouse
We’re incredibly honored and excited to be named a finalist among hundreds of innovative products and solutions that were considered for CRN’s Tech Innovator Awards. Many businesses understand the need for effective AI and analytics within their own operations but struggle with getting their data architectures to support it.
Cloudera’s platform offers portable, cloud-native, analytics deployable across infrastructures, all while maintaining consistent data governance and security. Leveraging a modern data architecture like the Open Data Lakehouse for private cloud helps cut through that complexity to deliver meaningful insights and truly effective AI, at scale.
Learn more about how Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse for private cloud can help fuel your AI journey.
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