2025 was a year of meaningful momentum for Cloudera’s partner ecosystem, and nowhere was that more evident than at our IMPACT26, our annual Partner Kickoff event.
IMPACT26 was primarily virtual, but Clouderans and partners tuned in from Watch Parties around the world, creating a shared energy felt across every session and conversation. These parties served as hubs of forward-thinking leaders across the Cloudera partner ecosystem, coming together to exchange ideas, spark innovation, and collectively shape a better future for each other, the industry, and our customers navigating rapid technological change—especially as organizations look to operationalize AI across increasingly complex, distributed environments.
Our conversations reflected a shared, deep understanding of what it takes to turn vision into tangible customer outcomes with AI in the real world.
The event created an opportunity to reflect on what we’ve built together so far and, more importantly, what comes next. This year, it brought together more than 800 attendees across every region, exhibiting the global scale and momentum of Cloudera’s partner ecosystem.
That spirit continues to sharpen into focus: enterprise AI will be led by north-star aligned partnerships, and that future is already taking shape at Cloudera.
“Through our joint innovation with Cloudera, we’re tightly integrating Dell’s industry‑leading storage with Cloudera’s data platform to bring AI directly to where the data lives,” said Travis Vigil, senior vice president, ISG Product Management, Dell Technologies. “Together, we’re helping customers operationalize AI at scale with the security, performance, and confidence required for production environments.”
Working Together with Partners Around the Globe for AI Anywhere
A key theme across these sessions was a shared focus on “AI Anywhere”—the idea that AI, when used to its full advantage, cannot be confined to a single platform, environment, or use case. It must be able to operate anywhere data lives.
In practice, a fragmented data estate creates real challenges: AI agents making decisions based on stale or incomplete data, governance policies applied inconsistently across environments, and patchwork fixes to address duplication, latency, and blind spots—hindering enterprises working to operationalize AI at scale.
Designing a unified AI environment means going deeper: bringing partners together to align on integrations that allow governance models, regulatory requirements, performance standards, and existing systems to work seamlessly across the board for long-term flexibility and resilience.
Executive presentations helped clarify this vision, aligning leaders on what it takes to operationalize AI across hybrid environments while maintaining consistency, control, and trust.
Attendees at our Mexico City Watch Party.
Cloudera’s IMPACT26 Global Honorees
Cloudera’s partners are at the forefront of turning data into value and AI anywhere, and we’re proud to celebrate those making a lasting impact across the industry.
At IMPACT26, that influence was recognized through the 2026 Global Partners of the Year Awards. The awards recognize organizations that have driven meaningful customer outcomes through technical excellence and innovation across the Cloudera ecosystem. This year’s global honorees are:
- Amazon Web Services (Cloud Partner of the Year)
- IBM (OEM Partner of the Year)
- AMD (Technology Partner of the Year)
- NVIDIA (AI Partner of the Year)
- Dell Technologies (IMPACT Partner of the Year)
- Protegrity (ISV Partner of the Year)
These partners demonstrate what’s possible when complementary strengths are brought together to solve real customer challenges. From bringing AI directly to where data lives, to enabling enterprise-grade performance, to embedding security into every layer of the data lifecycle, these collaborations are turning strategy into execution.
Cloudera’s IMPACT26 Regional Partners of the Year
The same energy seen with our global partners was equally present among our regional and specialized partners.
“Receiving Cloudera’s AMER Partner of the Year award is a great honor for Compwire and a reflection of the strong, trusted partnership we have built together,” said Ricardo Vinicius de Godoi, Director of Business Solutions at Compwire. “Together, we are helping organizations accelerate their data and AI initiatives in Brazil, and we look forward to continuing to drive innovation, customer value, and growth with Cloudera.”
Cloudera’s Regional Partners of the Year are:
- Compwire (AMER)
- IBM Consulting (APAC)
- Puedata (EMEA)
- ThunderCat Technology (Public Sector)
Every day, their local expertise helps customers accelerate their data and AI initiatives in ways that are both practical and scalable, grounded in the realities of specific markets and industries.
Our Emerging Partners of the Year are:
- Codename37 (AMER)
- Novare Technologies (APAC)
- Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. (EMEA)
These partners play a critical role in extending our reach across regions, environments, and use cases.
Attendees at our Virginia Watch Party
Collectively, our partner ecosystem is enabling organizations to build and run data and AI solutions anywhere (across public clouds, private infrastructure, and the edge) while maintaining the governance, security, and control required for enterprise-scale AI without compromising control, flexibility, or scale.
This is what “AI Anywhere” looks like in practice—it's a coordinated effort across partners to help customers operationalize AI with confidence, no matter what their current data architecture or tech stack looks like today.
To learn more about Cloudera’s partner ecosystem, visit Cloudera.com/partners.
