As organizations accelerate their AI journeys, one challenge continues to stand in the way of meaningful progress: data accessibility. Despite massive investments in modern data stacks, most enterprises still struggle to make their data discoverable, governed, consistent, and usable across environments.
A recent survey illustrates this clearly:
Only 9% of IT leaders say all their organizational data is accessible.
Just 38% claim that most of their data is usable for AI.
The rest remains locked in silos, hidden behind fragmented governance rules or trapped in legacy systems.
Cloudera’s latest platform update directly targets this challenge by integrating Trino, Cloudera Shared Data Experience (SDX), and Cloudera Octopai Data Lineage into a single, unified architecture — powered end-to-end by AI-driven automation.
Cloudera’s updated platform brings together three powerful capabilities to create a cohesive and intelligent data fabric:
Organizations can now query distributed datasets — on-premises, in any cloud, or across multiple systems — without moving data. Natural language interfaces allow business teams to explore data intuitively, while compute engines close to the data ensure performance and security.
Cloudera SDX consolidates metadata, policies, and permissions across the entire ecosystem.
This unified control plane ensures:
Consistent governance everywhere
Secure self-service access for all teams
Zero duplication of security or access policies
Octopai tracks the full lifecycle and transformation journey of every dataset — even data originating outside Cloudera.
This delivers:
Full auditability
Trust in AI outcomes
Clear impact analysis for all data flows
The platform uses AI to streamline and automate essential data operations such as:
Data quality checks
Classification
Profiling
Metadata enrichment
This reduces manual work, accelerates data readiness, and empowers technical and non-technical teams alike.
With this release, Cloudera enables enterprises to:
Automate data preparation, quality processes, and governance workflows.
Use natural language interfaces to make data available to everyone — not just engineers.
Leverage intelligent metadata and complete lineage for compliant, explainable data products and AI systems.
“Our mission at Cloudera has always been to help organizations make trusted data available for every AI initiative,” says Leo Brunnick, Chief Product Officer at Cloudera.
“With this release, we’re taking a major step forward by bringing AI-driven automation, governance and access together on one platform.”
By combining Trino federation, SDX governance, and Octopai lineage, Cloudera provides something enterprises have long needed:
a single, secure, AI-powered data fabric that unifies access to all data — anywhere.