Cloudera Anywhere Cloud gives AI agents safe, secure access to sensitive data wherever it lives

Big-data company Cloudera Inc. says it’s going to eliminate the headaches and hassles that have slowed enterprise’s efforts to adopt artificial intelligence with today’s launch of its new Cloudera Anywhere Cloud platform.

It’s targeted at agentic AI workloads, namely the autonomous AI agents that go further than regular chatbots by performing work on behalf of humans. By using Cloudera Anywhere Cloud, organizations can give their AI agents safe, governed access to their most sensitive data, no matter where it lives, be it in the public cloud, on-premises, in a sovereign cloud environment or at the network edge. It’s paving the way for AI agents to work in any location, without restrictions.

Cloudera says this kind of thing is desperately needed. While organizations are desperate to operationalize AI agents, they’re confounded by infrastructure challenges. Those AI agents need access to corporate data to be able to perform the work they’re being asked to do, but that’s difficult to provide given the fragmented nature of most enterprise data environments. One of the hardest challenges to solve is the strong data sovereignty regulations in places such as Europe. There are also basic cybersecurity risks to consider and the problem of slow platform upgrade cycles. In a recent study, Cloudera found that 73% of information technology leaders blamed infrastructure performance constraints for hindering their AI projects.