Cloudera unveils platform upgrade for regulated sectors in ANZ
Cloudera has released a major update to its platform targeting enterprises in highly regulated sectors across Australia and New Zealand. The update integrates Trino, Cloudera Shared Data Experience (SDX), and Cloudera Octopai Data Lineage into a single architecture designed to streamline access, governance, and traceability of distributed data, aiming to support organisations grappling with siloed information and compliance requirements.
Unified access
The new Cloudera platform allows users to query data wherever it resides, without the need to move information between locations. This federated approach means data stored on-premises, in public clouds, or in multiple cloud providers can be accessed via a single endpoint. Trino's federation capabilities enable users to run queries across these distributed systems, leveraging natural language interfaces for ease of use. Certified connectors have been added to enable deployment of Trino in different environments, linking data across several systems without duplicating access rules.
Centralised governance
The integration with Cloudera SDX centralises metadata and access controls, simplifying the management of data estates. This unification helps organisations maintain consistent security, compliance, and policy enforcement, which is especially critical for public sector, financial services, and healthcare firms where regulatory requirements are strict. By automating tasks like data quality checks, classification, and profiling, Cloudera's platform aims to reduce manual oversight while maintaining audit standards.
End-to-end transparency
Cloudera Octopai Data Lineage provides detailed tracking of the complete journey of data, even when it originates outside of the Cloudera environment. This lineage tool offers transparency over transformations and workflows, supporting audit trails and building trust in the data's integrity. By collecting and managing metadata across diverse systems, the platform supports enterprises in maintaining full oversight of their information as it flows through different processes.
AI capabilities
The platform is designed to automate a range of data fabric operations, including cleansing, classification, and profiling. It also allows for natural language queries, making data access more intuitive for employees across business and technical functions. This is intended to help organisations democratise access to data, facilitating broader use of analytics and artificial intelligence, regardless of a user's technical background.
Sector relevance
Organisations in highly regulated sectors are a key target for the update. Data from a recent survey cited by Cloudera suggests that only 9 percent of IT leaders have complete access to their organisation's data, and just 38 percent say most data is usable for AI initiatives. Cloudera's approach is to provide a unified solution that can bring together disparate sources under a single governance and security model, without requiring data movement that could complicate compliance or increase risk.
"This integration delivers a powerful three-fold advantage for ANZ organisations: flexibility to query data anywhere, trust through unified governance and security, and transparency with full data lineage. Combined with AI-driven insights, this creates a secure, governed, and fully traceable federated query environment - essential for enterprises operating across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures in highly regulated sectors such as public sector, financial services and healthcare, where compliance and speed are critical," said Vini Cardoso, Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera Australia and New Zealand.
