Cloudera Named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, today announced it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software Vendor Assessment 2026. This recognition highlights Cloudera’s ability to help organizations securely access and govern distributed data and put it to work for AI across cloud and data environments.

Enterprises are facing growing pressure to leverage distributed data in AI initiatives while maintaining security and control. Recent research from Cloudera underscored the scale of this challenge: nearly 80% of enterprises said limited data access across environments constrains their AI and data initiatives, while just 18% reported that their data is fully governed.

A Trusted Data Foundation for AI Anywhere

As enterprises move generative and agentic AI into production, fragmented data and inconsistent governance can slow progress and increase risk. Cloudera provides unified visibility and governance across the data estate, helping organizations turn trusted data into context for AI without sacrificing control.

By bringing compute capacity to governed data rather than requiring sensitive data to move to AI, Cloudera enables organizations to maintain control over their data, models and workloads. Its recognition as a Leader reinforces the value of this approach as enterprises move AI initiatives from experimentation to production.

Open and Flexible by Design

Cloudera’s open architecture gives organizations the freedom to deploy data and AI workloads across environments without being locked into a single infrastructure or technology stack. Support for open technologies such as Apache Iceberg and Trino, combined with Cloudera Data Lineage and capabilities within Cloudera AI, help enterprises build and scale AI on trusted data while meeting their security, compliance and governance requirements.

“Enterprises are looking for data platforms that can provide the governance, flexibility and control required to support increasingly complex data and AI workloads across distributed environments,” said Marlanna Harrington, Research Analyst, Data, Analytics, AI and Automation at IDC. “As organizations move generative and agentic AI into production, the ability to securely access, govern and activate trusted data across those environments is becoming increasingly important.”

“Enterprise AI is only as valuable as the data behind it, and for the world’s largest organizations, that data lives everywhere,” said Sergio Gago, Chief Technology Officer at Cloudera. “Being named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape reinforces our commitment to giving enterprises the freedom to bring AI to trusted data wherever it lives. This recognition validates the approach we have taken to help organizations maintain the governance, openness, and control they need while turning more of their data into meaningful business value.”

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About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors

About Cloudera
Cloudera is the only hybrid data and AI platform company that large organizations trust to bring AI to their data anywhere it lives. Unlike other providers, Cloudera delivers a consistent cloud experience that converges public clouds, on-prem data centers, and the edge, leveraging a proven open-source foundation. As the pioneer in big data, Cloudera empowers businesses to apply AI and assert control over 100% of their data, in all forms, improving security, governance, and real-time and predictive insights. The world’s largest brands across all industries rely on Cloudera to transform decision-making and ultimately boost bottom lines, safeguard against threats, and save lives.

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