AWS re:Invent is one of my favorite trade shows. It is one of the biggest technology conferences of the year and is an opportunity to have hundreds of conversations with customers and prospects, listen to their priorities and challenges, hopes, and give them a Cloudera tote bag or a pair of orange sunglasses. What follows is a collection of just a few things I learned and observed during my week in Las Vegas.

Since 5G networks began rolling out commercially in 2019, telecom carriers have faced a wide range of new challenges: managing high-velocity workloads, reducing infrastructure costs, and adopting AI and automation. Because data management is a key variable for overcoming these challenges, carriers are turning to hybrid cloud solutions, which provide the flexibility and scalability needed to adapt to the evolving landscape 5G enables.

In the last year, we’ve seen the explosion of AI in the enterprise, leaving organizations to consider the infrastructure and processes for AI to successfully—and securely—deploy across an organization. As we head into 2025, it’s clear that next year will be just as exciting as past years. Here, Cloudera experts share their insights on what to expect in data and AI for the enterprise in 2025.

We’re proud to announce that Cloudera signed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) “Secure by Design” pledge, joining a network of industry leaders dedicated to embedding security at every stage of the product lifecycle. To be good stewards of our customers’ data, it is critical for security to be a fundamental component of every product and service we offer–not just an afterthought.

As organizations increasingly integrate AI into day-to-day operations, scaling AI solutions effectively becomes essential yet challenging. Many enterprises encounter bottlenecks related to data quality, model deployment, and infrastructure requirements that hinder scaling efforts. Cloudera tackles these challenges with the AI Inference service and tailored Solution Patterns developed by Cloudera’s Professional Services, empowering organizations to operationalize AI at scale across industries.

We’re thrilled to announce the release of a new Cloudera Accelerator for Machine Learning (ML) Projects (AMP): “Summarization with Gemini from Vertex AI”. An AMP is a pre-built, high-quality minimal viable product (MVP) for Artificial Intelligence (AI) use cases that can be deployed in a single-click from Cloudera AI (CAI). AMPs are all about helping you quickly build performant AI applications. More on AMPs can be found here.

Artificial Intelligence promises to transform lives and business as we know it. But what does that future look like? The AI Forecast: Data and AI in the Cloud Era, sponsored by Cloudera, aims to take an objective look at the impact of AI on business, industry, and the world at large.

Today enterprises can leverage the combination of Cloudera and Snowflake—two best-of-breed tools for ingestion, processing and consumption of data—for a single source of truth across all data, analytics, and AI workloads. But now AWS customers will gain more flexibility, data utility, and complexity, supporting the modern data architecture.

For more than a decade, Cloudera has been an ardent supporter and committee member of Apache NiFi, long recognizing its power and versatility for data ingestion, transformation, and delivery. Our customers rely on NiFi as well as the associated sub-projects (Apache MiNiFi and Registry) to connect to structured, unstructured, and multi-modal data from a variety of data sources – from edge devices to SaaS tools to server logs and change data capture streams.

Welcome to the first installment of a series of posts discussing the recently announced Cloudera AI Inference service. Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are more crucial than ever for organizations to turn data into a competitive advantage. To unlock the full potential of AI, however, businesses need to deploy models and AI applications at scale, in real-time, and with low latency and high throughput. This is where the Cloudera AI Inference service comes in.