Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, announced it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Sovereign AI Platform 2026 Vendor Assessment. We believe this recognition affirms how Cloudera enables organisations to securely access, govern, and deploy sovereign AI workloads across private, hybrid, edge, and air-gapped data environments.
Enterprises across Asia Pacific are facing growing pressure to deploy sovereign AI initiatives while adhering to strict local data privacy, residency, and compliance regulations. Recent research from Cloudera underscores the scale of this challenge: nearly 92% of Asia Pacific enterprises reported delaying or cancelling AI projects due to data governance and compliance issues, while 63% have shifted AI workloads back to private cloud or on-premises environments to regain control.
Cloudera’s platform delivers Private AI anywhere, extending the company's hybrid data management background to sovereign AI. It addresses these hybrid infrastructure demands by combining data-in-motion processing, an open data lakehouse, enterprise AI tooling, and a unified data fabric with integrated security and governance across all analytics spanning the entire data estate. By combining Apache Ranger for access control, Apache Atlas for lineage, and Cloudera Data Lineage for automated metadata collection, the platform provides trace-level visibility from source data directly to deployed models, ensuring compliance with stringent audit requirements.
By bringing compute directly to governed data rather than requiring sensitive information to cross corporate boundaries, Cloudera enables organisations to build AI models in one environment and seamlessly deploy them to another, including air-gapped data centres or edge devices such as Jetson boards, without rewriting code. Its recognition as a Leader reflects proven success across long-tenured financial and public sector deployments in the region.
Cloudera’s open architecture gives organisations the freedom to deploy data and AI workloads across environments without being locked into a single hardware or infrastructure vendor. With contributions to more than 50 Apache open-source projects, nearly 2,000 active partner accounts, and direct delivery presence in nine Asia/Pacific countries, Cloudera continues to expand its sovereign capabilities, including the recently launched Cloudera Anywhere Cloud, which is designed to run the sovereign AI stack directly within a customer’s own cloud account.
“As Asia Pacific organisations accelerate generative and agentic AI adoption, maintaining strict governance and sovereignty over data and model lineage is essential,” said Deepika Giri, VP, Asia/Pacific AI Platforms and Advisory at IDC. “Platforms that deliver robust auditability alongside deployment flexibility across private, hybrid, and edge environments give regulated enterprises the control required to scale AI with confidence.”
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