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

Cloudera, a company bringing AI to data anywhere, 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, 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, CTO, 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.”