PARTNER MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
The Inside Scoop
December 2025
Highlights
Cloudera Named a Leader in Data Fabric by Forrester
The Forrester Wave™ for Data Fabric Platforms positioned Cloudera as a Leader! This recognition highlights Cloudera as the ideal choice for robust data processing, scalable storage, and persistent data management to power modern data and AI use cases. Read the report.
Closing the AI Implementation Gap in Financial Services
Help your customers bridge the gap, address data security and silos, and achieve enterprise-wide adoption. This new survey reveals a critical "implementation gap”. Download and share this report.
Cloudera Reinforces Commitment to Saudi Vision 2030
With plans to launch Cloudera’s data and AI platform on the upcoming AWS Saudi Arabia region, we will continue our support of data integrity and sovereignty compliance for highly regulated industries and public sector organizations. Read the Press Release.
Events
EVOLVE25 Wraps in Dubai
Our EVOLVE25 global tour has wrapped, and we’re so grateful for the remarkable partner energy at each event—Singapore, São Paulo, New York, London, Washington D.C., and Dubai. A heartfelt thanks to our sponsors for contributing in such a big way with thought leadership and collaboration. Thank you for bringing the Cloudera story to life and showing what we can achieve together.
Details on EVOLVE26 coming soon!
Thank you to our Sponsors:
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Partner Days Canada | Toronto | January 21
Explore Cloudera's latest product innovations, gain practical insights to drive your business growth, and network with industry peers. Register now.
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EVOLVE Forums | India, China & Korea
Our recent EVOLVE Forums in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Seoul, and Mumbai had great partner involvement, with a total of 20 partner sponsors across locations. In Shanghai and Shenzhen we had several partner booths, a partner drinks event in Shanghai, and a dinner in Shenzhen. In Seoul, we had partner sponsors Kolon Benit and Good Morning IT, and in Mumbai, our distribution partner TechData showcased the Cloudera+Dell Technologies+NVIDIA’s AI-in-a-Box solution on their booth.
Content Corner
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The AI Forecast Podcast | How to Deliver AI Value
Listen as Arrow Electronics’ Tom Harshbarger shares his expert insights on what it takes to build enterprise AI solutions that deliver value—from navigating an immature market to choosing the right partners. Listen now.
Partner Spotlight: IBM
Paul Rivot of IBM discusses the value of the IBM-Cloudera partnership in helping customers with data in motion/AI, highlighting challenges and solutions that empower organizations to accelerate real-time data strategies for AI. Watch now.
Share Your Story
Highlight your joint success with Cloudera—nominate a joint customer story today. Let’s amplify our expertise and drive new business together! Fill out the form.
Enablement Corner
New Sales Plays | Snowflake Optimization
This new partner sales play provides prescriptive guidance on what to know, what to say, and what to share. More sales plays coming soon. Browse this Sales Play.
SkillUp Sessions | Technical Enablement
Live and on-demand technical training sessions: from pre-sales to post-sales training. Stay on the lookout for upcoming sessions–Register.
Accreditations
Learn at your own pace, from anywhere, and at no cost.
Accreditations validate your proficiency in the value of Cloudera products and solutions. Register for accreditations here.
Congratulations to our December Accreditation leader - PT. NashTa Global Utama in Indonesia.
Partner Academy Learning Catalog
On-demand learning anytime, anywhere it works for you.
Browse the Partner Academy Catalog for e-learning you can apply across your business.
Cloudera Education and Certification Website
Fee-based learning paths for post-sales services.
Meet data and analytics professionals’ learning and development needs with customized learning paths. Explore now.
Tech Corner
Migrating to Apache Iceberg for Dummies | For What’s Next
Apache Iceberg is an open table format that powers dynamic workloads at scale. Iceberg is built to overcome Hive’s bottlenecks with support for schema evolution, time travel, and cross-engine interoperability. Our experts have pulled together this step-by-step blueprint for migrating your customer’s workloads to Iceberg. Download the new ebook.
Cloudera on Cloud: Latest Release Summary
View our latest release summaries we’ve published.
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