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Open lakehouse architecture is becoming the foundation for production AI and enterprise AI at scale. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Dipankar Mazumdar, Director of Developer Relations at Cloudera and co-author of the book “Engineering Lakehouse with Open Table Formats,” joins Paul Muller to explain why open lakehouse architecture is critical for moving from AI pilot to production AI.

Today’s enterprises face immense pressure: scaling fast, staying compliant, and unlocking AI-driven insights—all while fighting siloed data and growing cloud complexity. There is a better way forward, and it starts with Cloudera Anywhere Cloud. Cloudera is the only data and AI platform that delivers the cloud experience anywhere—public clouds, data centers, and the edge—bringing unified security, governance, and control to data wherever it resides. Access 100% of your data for AI-driven insights and future-proof—not just modernize–your enterprise data strategy.

Cloudera Chief Strategy Officer Abhas Ricky breaks down the "Era of Intelligence," detailing how enterprise data is the only remaining moat in a commoditized AI market. Discover the 2025 AI Maturity Curve, from simple chat copilots to the high-fidelity autonomous agents now running in production at global banks. Learn how Cloudera's partnership with Dell and Nvidia reduces AI deployment time from months to weeks while delivering a 3-5x improvement in TCO.

Cloudera CEO Charles Sansbury kicks off Evolve 25 New York by defining the "Era of Convergence" and the rise of Private AI. Discover how Cloudera is managing over 25 exabytes of data to help global leaders move from horizontal AI use cases to business-unit centric ROI. Charles details the strategic acquisitions of Octopai and Taikun, explaining how they bridge the gap between "Command & Control" and "Cloud Convenience." Learn how to operationalize high-fidelity data to drive "Everywhere AI" across hybrid environments without compromising security.

In this video, Cloudera's Director of Developers, Dipankar breaks down what an open table format actually is in a Lakehouse architecture. Table formats are not new and Databases have had their own storage formats for decades. But in the lakehouse world, things have changed. In this video, Dipankar walks through.

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In this video, Dipankar breaks down the lakehouse architecture layer by layer - from object storage to table formats, catalogs, and compute engines. He covers.

Discover how Cloudera brings data anywhere, helps channel partners become trusted experts for their accounts, drive business growth, and accelerate their customers’ AI journey.

As telecom operators invest billions in next-generation networks, many are racing to deploy AI to cut costs and unlock new revenue. But beneath the push for automation and smarter infrastructure lies the deeper challenge of rethinking how connectivity itself should be trusted.

Many financial institutions are finding that improving education isn't enough to solve their data management struggles. It’s time to move from “proof of concept” to “intelligence orchestration.” The gap between AI experimentation and real-world ROI is widening. In this video, we break down why a robust, proprietary data foundation is the only way to scale AI safely and effectively. We explore why financial services must move beyond public data and focus on unique, high-value data assets to create a true competitive advantage.