Data management: Cloudera’s proactive thinking with Iceberg [Video]

From news of Databricks Inc. acquiring Tabular Technologies Inc. and its independent storage engine to Snowflake Inc. open-sourcing its Polaris Catalog, the data management space has been buzzing with significant activity.

It’s no coincidence that this flurry is happening to support the boom in enterprise artificial intelligence, automation and advanced analytics. How will the resulting status quo position long-time players, such as Cloudera Inc., on the strategy and value delivery fronts?

“The first thing I would observe is that this is a validation of our strategy,” said Venkat Rajaji (pictured, right), senior vice president of product management at Cloudera. “We moved into the Iceberg way about two years ago. We’re evolving, and where we’ve been moving over the last number of years is we provide the foundation for building and deploying AI applications, including chatbots, document summarization and code generation. Last week, we announced the acquisition of Verta’s Operational AI platform.”

Rajaji and Sanjeev Mohan (middle), principal at SanjMo, spoke with theCUBE analyst Rob Strechay(left), …