US data analytics company Cloudera partners with India's Krutrim, an AI venture founded by Ola co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal to provide large-scale AI and data analytics solutions to Krutrim's clients. Announced at Cloudera's Evolve25 conference in Singapore, the deal will see the key workloads of Krutrim Cloud and its data and AI stack power supply starting with OLA and subsequently expanding to other companies' customers.
Krutrim is building a vertically integrated cloud stack that includes computation, storage, data management and basic AI models optimized for the diverse language contexts of India. With Cloudera, we aim to provide scalable data lakes and AI services to enterprise clients. Data Lake is a centralized repository for storing large amounts of raw raw data from a variety of sources.
“This strategic partnership will enable Krutrim to leverage the full potential of data and AI to drive business transformation, improve customer experiences, and support the development of advanced data engineering, AI training, and scale inference,” the company said in a statement.
Real-world applications: Power of Ola and Beyond
Ola already uses a stack integrated into real-time data processing and AI-driven insights. Using Cloudera's platform and services, Kutrim develops solutions to process large datasets in real time from a variety of data sources, enabling faster and more accurate intelligence for OLAs.
“We are pleased to announce that we are committed to providing a range of services and business opportunities,” said Navendu Agarwal, senior vice president and head of business at Krutrim.
The deal is also in line with Krutrim's efforts to strengthen Cloudera's footprint in the region and provide Indian companies with alternatives to the sovereign cloud.
Addresses security concerns regarding private AI
In another announcement, Cloudera launched private AI capabilities on a platform that allows businesses to run generative AI workloads within their own data centers on the company's premises.
Previously only in the cloud, the on-premises version of Cloudera's AI inference service allows businesses to build, deploy, and scale Genai applications behind firewalls. The Accenture Report cited by Cloudera found that 77% of organizations lack the basic data and AI security practices needed to protect key models, data pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
“We cannot deny the urgency to adopt AI today, but so are data security concerns. All businesses need to do is streamline AI adoption, increase productivity and do so without compromising security.”
(The correspondent is in Singapore at the invitation of Cloudera)
