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Do you know where your data is? The number of people who can pat their server and say fondly, “Right here!” is decreasing. Instead, more people are lifting their eyes to the heavens and answering, “Um… up there… somewhere…” McKinsey reports that in 2025, large enterprises have 60% of their environment in the cloud. If you’re considering moving your data assets, processes, and applications to the cloud, you’re in good company.

The recent global IT outage experienced by a major cloud hyperscaler was a disruptive, real-world reminder that downtime and service disruptions are inevitable. The event impacted services across banking, retail, and healthcare, and served as a powerful warning that relying on any single provider, or even a single cloud region, creates a critical business vulnerability. This outage highlights the critical risk of a single-provider strategy, rather than an inherent problem with the cloud.

Let me take you on a journey—not into some far-off sci-fi future, but into a tomorrow that’s just around the corner. Imagine this: you walk into your workplace and some of your “colleagues” are no longer human. They’re not robots in the traditional sense, but agents—autonomous software entities, each trained on vast datasets, equipped with decision-making power, and capable of performing economic, civic, and operational tasks at scale.

The demand for AI-driven applications is surging, and enterprises have reached an inflection point where they can no longer afford fragmented, siloed development. Traditionally, AI development is done by data scientists or machine learning experts with deep expertise in multiple tools and frameworks.

The race to operationalize private AI at enterprise scale isn’t just about models and algorithms—it’s about infrastructure that refuses to compromise. Welcome to the inaugural post of AI in a Box, a three-part blog series that unpacks how Cloudera, Dell Technologies, and NVIDIA are redefining enterprise AI with a turnkey solution that unifies cutting-edge AI-optimized hardware, intelligent data orchestration and AIOps tooling, and zero-trust governance.

Agentic AI has the potential to revolutionize workplace processes in nearly every sector by improving business decision-making, workflow efficiency and customer interactions and experiences. While interest in agentic AI is widespread, the motivation to use it differs by industry. Cloudera surveyed 1,484 enterprise IT leaders across 14 countries to better understand their approach to agentic AI in 2025, including how specific industries plan to implement the technology.

Across the globe, organizations are united by one shared priority: sustainability. While committing to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives is simply the right thing to do to preserve our planet for future generations, businesses face additional pressure to prioritize sustainability via regulations, expectations from investors, and consumer preferences. Since 2019, thousands of companies have committed to achieving net-zero emissions.

Whether it’s a financial services firm or a major healthcare provider, no other technology is poised to be as transformative for businesses as artificial intelligence (AI). It is redefining how every organization approaches its data and business applications. And so, it’s within this reality that Cloudera has consistently recognized how important it is to set out a clear and actionable roadmap to tap into the potential of AI and GenAI.