Cloudera and AMD: Delivering Scalable Private AI Anywhere

The partnership between Cloudera and AMD delivers a highly scalable, secure, and cost-effective solution for enterprise data, analytics, and hybrid private AI. By integrating Cloudera’s open data lakehouse architecture with the compute power of AMD’s high-performance EPYC processors, organizations can seamlessly manage and activate massive datasets across public clouds, private data centers, and at the edge. 

This joint solution emphasizes "bringing AI to the data," wherever it resides. AMD CPUs are powerful and cost-effective for AI use cases which can make use of specialized, small (to medium-sized) language models (SLMs), including chatbot & agent deployment, automated content generation, knowledge base creation, secure code generation, and more. SLMs can be used at a fraction of the cost of larger foundation models, which tend to require GPU-enabled acceleration. 

This "right-sized" AI approach drastically lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), reduces energy consumption, and accelerates time-to-value by utilizing accessible CPU infrastructure that organizations can easily deploy and scale. As the industry gears up for deploying their AI agents at scale, the combined power of AMD CPUs and the Cloudera hybrid data and AI platform enable a stable, cost-effective, and performant solution for agentic AI workload deployment. 

The partnership empowers organizations to confidently deploy powerful, customized data and ML, generative, agentic, and edge AI solutions that are perfectly aligned with their business needs and budgets. Cloudera and AMD enable enterprises to maintain strict data sovereignty, privacy, and regulatory compliance by processing proprietary information entirely within their own controlled environments. 

About AMD

AMD is the high performance and adaptive computing leader, powering the products and services that help solve the world’s most important challenges. Our technologies advance the future of the data center, embedded, gaming, and PC markets.

Founded in 1969 as a Silicon Valley start-up, the AMD journey began with dozens of employees who were passionate about creating leading-edge semiconductor products. AMD has grown into a global company setting the standard for modern computing, with many important industry firsts and major technological achievements along the way.

Joint Solution Overview

Cloudera AI Use Cases Powered by AMD CPUs

• Internal Knowledge Base Creation: Enterprises can use SLMs to automatically ingest and structure vast amounts of unstructured data (such as emails, reports, and technical guides) into a unified, intelligent knowledge base. Company employees can ask natural-language questions and receive instant, accurate answers, all while ensuring that sensitive data always stays within the corporate firewall.

• Enterprise Chatbots and Agent Deployments: Organizations can deploy secure chatbots and agents to assist internal departments like HR, IT, and Legal. Running entirely on AMD CPUs within the Cloudera platform, these chatbots and agents can handle repetitive employee questions and automate related tasks 24/7. This can reduce operational costs and free up human experts time.

• Automated Content Generation: Marketing, Legal, and Communications teams can use AI to rapidly draft routine content, such as product descriptions, social media posts, and internal announcements. Processing this on energy-efficient AMD EPYC CPUs accelerates production cycles and provides measurable operational savings.

• Secure Code Generation: Software development teams can utilize an AI-powered coding assistant that runs securely within the company's existing environment. This tool helps developers write code, generate documentation, and create unit tests faster.