San Jose, Feb 12: Cloudera, the only company delivering AI to data anywhere, today announced strong performance as it begins FY27 with its annual Sales Kick Off event, ELEVATE27. The company closed FY26 with record-breaking results, fueled by robust customer adoption, expanded partnerships, and continuous platform innovation, reinforcing its position as the industry’s only hybrid data and AI platform.

Record Financial Performance

Cloudera ended FY26 with over 50% year-over-year growth in new and expansion business, strong annual recurring revenue growth, and more than 100% new logo growth in Q4 across all regions. The performance highlights the growing enterprise demand for flexible, secure data and AI platforms that operate seamlessly across clouds, data centers, and edge environments.

Innovating the Industry’s Most Flexible Data and AI Platform

Cloudera strengthened its hybrid and multi-cloud capabilities with the acquisition of Taikun, enabling enterprises to manage Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure more effectively. Key product innovations in FY26 include:

• Integration of Trino, Cloudera SDX, and Cloudera Data Lineage for unified data access, governance, and end-to-end lineage.
• Enhancements to Cloudera Iceberg REST Catalog and Lakehouse Optimizer for open and efficient data lakehouse management.
• Launch of Cloudera Data Services with secure, GPU-accelerated generative AI capabilities on-premises.
• Updated Cloudera Data Visualization to extend AI-driven analytics for on-premises environments.

The company also achieved critical certifications, including TX-RAMP Level 2, GovRAMP Moderate, and FedRAMP Moderate, reinforcing its position as a trusted platform for highly regulated industries.

Expanding Global Partnerships

Cloudera expanded its AI and cloud ecosystem through partnerships with ServiceNow, Fundamental, Pulse, Galileo.ai, Intel, Chainguard, AWS, and Dell Technologies. The company also joined the AI-RAN Alliance and collaborated with Krutrim to power large-scale analytics workloads for Ola.

Growing Enterprise Adoption

Cloudera’s platform innovations drove customer growth across regulated and data-intensive industries, including banking, insurance, healthcare, automotive, telecom, and government. Notable client recognitions include Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank and Axis Bank winning the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2025 for leveraging Cloudera solutions.

Industry Recognition

Cloudera earned 45 global awards in FY26, including recognition for its people, product capabilities, and growth, such as the Reuters Trailblazing Women Award, Data Breakthrough Awards, CRN AI 100, and inclusion in the Forrester Wave™: Data Fabric Platforms Q4 2025.

Scaling Teams and Operations

Cloudera opened new offices in San Jose and Saudi Arabia, welcoming over 570 new hires across 30 countries, including leadership appointments of Chief Product Officer Leo Brunnick and Chief Technology Officer Sergio Gago. Plans are underway to hire an additional 650 employees in FY27.

Driving Inclusive Leadership and AI Innovation

Through the Women Leaders in Technology (WLIT) initiative, Cloudera engaged over 1,100 professionals across six countries in its first year, promoting leadership, dialogue, and networking within the AI and data ecosystem.

Looking Ahead

Entering FY27, Cloudera will continue enhancing its AI inferencing capabilities and hybrid platform innovations, delivering secure, scalable, and intelligent solutions to help enterprises unlock insights and drive business outcomes across all environments.

“This was a defining year for Cloudera,” said Charles Sansbury, CEO of Cloudera. “We delivered strong performance, expanded our ecosystem, and continued to innovate across our platform, staying true to our mission of bringing AI to data anywhere. FY27 will build on this momentum with continued innovation to empower enterprises globally.”