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AI-in-Box: Cloudera deepens integration with Dell ObjectScale 

Adrian Bridgwater
Adrian Bridgwater

Cloudera used its Evolve25 summit in New York this month to detail the integration of Dell ObjectScale with the company’s own platform.

The aim is an advancement of the firm’s joint AI-in-a-Box offering and creating a “private AI platform” designed for scale, governance and what the companies call “economic clarity” in terms of operation.

This fusion is supposed to provide users with a validated and integrated data platform, allowing them to run all of Cloudera’s compute engines directly against Dell Technologies ObjectScale storage. 

“One of the greatest challenges hindering enterprise AI success is the complexity around where data is located and how to access it. Cloudera’s latest survey report,” said the company, in a press statement. “Without the ability to securely and effectively manage 100% of enterprise data, in all forms, wherever it resides, it will be impossible for organisations to apply AI to workloads to make fully informed, strategic decisions.”

Cloudera has collaborated with Dell to allow joint customers to store all their structured and unstructured data in one place and access it quickly. The collaboration allows Cloudera users to use Dell ObjectScale as an S3-compatible object store for AL workloads:

  • Cloudera AI Workbench: A secure environment for building, training, and refining AI models using governed data.
  • Cloudera Inference Service: A way to deploy and use these AI models efficiently and affordably at a large scale.
  • Cloudera Agent Studio: A tool to design and leverage smart AI agents that can automate tasks across business operations.

“Businesses need AI systems that can grow with them, keep data secure, and have clear, predictable costs,” said Abhas Ricky, chief strategy officer, Cloudera. “Bringing Dell ObjectScale together with Cloudera enables organisations to industrialise AI use cases using secure data, deploy them efficiently, and create smart agents, all with predictable economics, and without hidden fees. This is the quickest and most reliable way for large companies to put AI to work and create intelligent agents. Cloudera is uniquely positioned to unify governed enterprise data with AI services on modern storage, creating the only Private AI platform that combines governance, performance, and clear economics at an industrial scale.”

The combination here is promised to enable organisations to start using AI faster, achieve lower overall costs and trust their AI systems, which is crucial for highly regulated industries. 

Cloudera says that the work here allows enterprises to overcome the hurdles of moving data, makes AI more affordable, simplifies managing AI tasks and deploys private AI agents with trust and efficiency.