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Overview

The Dell Technologies and Cloudera partnership

Dell Technologies and Cloudera have been working together to support their customer’s data management and analytic needs for over ten years. This collaboration focuses on providing customers with robust architectures for private AI and end-to-end analytics delivered in on-premises, cloud-native, and hybrid environments.

Our joint efforts leverage optimized Dell PowerEdge servers and scalable PowerScale storage, enabling organizations to support their traditional, generative, and agentic AI initiatives while deriving insights from their data.

About Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies is a global leader in providing the technology and services that organizations need to build their digital future. They offer a comprehensive portfolio spanning from edge to core to cloud, enabling businesses to transform and thrive in the data era.

Serving customers across 180 countries, including 98% of the Fortune 500, Dell Technologies delivers innovative solutions designed to drive growth, efficiency, and security.

Dell Technologies wins Impact Partner of the Year 2026 award.

Key Highlights

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Partnership highlights

Dell Technologies is a certified Cloudera reseller with extensive experience delivering hardware and software solutions for big data workloads.
They provide comprehensive reference architectures, design guides, and whitepapers to support Cloudera customers' data management journeys.
Together, we offer guidance on optimal hardware configurations to streamline Cloudera deployments.
Cloudera Base on premises on Dell infrastructure is built on our collective experience deploying and running enterprise production environments.

Cloudera and Dell Technologies approach to private AI on premises

Cloudera champions private AI, empowering organizations to build and run AI models and applications using their proprietary data within their security perimeter.

This approach ensures data sovereignty and compliance with stringent regulatory requirements. Cloudera and Dell Technologies believe in bringing AI compute to data rather than moving data to AI. Cloudera provides a secure and efficient solution for enterprises needing to maintain control over sensitive information. Cloudera supports open-source AI models and ensures seamless integration across the data and AI lifecycle. The Cloudera and Dell Technologies partnership allows customers to enable private AI on Dell PowerEdge servers.

This is AI without asterisks: your data stays yours, models adapt to your infrastructure, and innovation aligns with your risk tolerance.

—Priyank Patel, Vice President of AI Product Management, Cloudera

And so we have a saying at Dell, 'Bring AI to the data, don't bring data to the AI'.

—Chris Fallon, Head of Global Practices - Transformation Offices, Dell Technologies

Key benefits

Protect intellectual property and data sovereignty

Comply with governance and regulatory frameworks

Retain full control over data, models, prompts, and outputs (intelligence)

Avoid lock-in with open-source compatibility

The Cloudera Private AI Framework

Accelerated compute anywhere

Access to GPUs anywhere-scaled AI workloads on GPUs with a better TCO

Private AI

Deploy apps & model on prem and on public cloud securely within your environment

Any model

Enterprise context for any foundational model, LLM, transformer library

Applications & agents

Build agentic apps with Cloudera AI Workbench and the AI ecosystem

Trusted data: Bring your models to the data AND NOT the data to your models

Cloudera AI on Dell Technologies

Cloudera AI combines Dell’s robust infrastructure, NVIDIA’s high-performance GPUs and accelerated compute software with Cloudera’s data platform to deliver significant cost savings, accelerated ROI, and enhanced security while scaling AI initiatives efficiently.

Secure Hardware, Accelerated Compute & AI Software, Scalable Software, and Optimized Model and AI Agents

Joint solutions, certification, & use cases

Dell Technologies and Cloudera offer comprehensive joint solutions for on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud deployments. Cloudera on Dell infrastructure provides a platform for data-in-motion, data engineering, data warehousing, transactional data, and data science.

Cloudera Certification:

QATS (Quality Assurance Test Suite)

Cloudera’s highest certification level, ensuring rigorous testing of software, file systems, hardware, and containers across the Cloudera product suite.

Joint solutions

Cloudera Data Services—including Cloudera Data Engineering, Cloudera Data Warehouse, and Cloudera AI—run on Dell’s infrastructure, providing containerized compute analytic applications that scale dynamically.

Dell Validated Designs accelerate deployments and reduce risk with proven integrated solutions.

Dell unstructured data solutions (UDS) offer NAS and Object Storage solutions that complement Cloudera Base and Data Services on premises.

Use cases

Customer 360 analytics

Retail inventory and sales analysis

Manufacturing operational analysis

eCommerce fraud prevention

Network security intelligence

Data warehouse consolidation

Discount pricing optimization

Government Solutions

Security, risk, and compliance

Our joint solutions help enterprises improve regulatory compliance and manage sensitive data securely, enabling use cases like predictive maintenance, genomics research, and real-time compliance monitoring.

Cloudera Data Services, including Cloudera Data Engineering, Cloudera Data Warehouse, and Cloudera AI, run on Dell’s infrastructure, providing containerized compute analytic applications that scale dynamically.