India, Aug. 5 -- Cloudera has announced the acquisition of Czech-based Taikun, a Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure management organisation, in a move aimed at accelerating its mission to give enterprises greater control over their data estates across public clouds, private data centres, and sovereign or air-gapped environments.

The deal underscores Cloudera's commitment to addressing the growing complexity of enterprise IT landscapes, particularly as AI workloads expand at an unprecedented pace. By integrating Taikun's cloud-native compute platform, Cloudera aims to deliver seamless deployment, operations, and scalability across its full technology stack.

Taikun's Kubernetes-native management capabilities will serve as a fully integra...