GEC NEWS WIRECloudera will showcase its latest advancements at GITEX Global Dubai 2024, the Middle East’s premier technology event. With enterprises in the region rapidly embracing cloud and AI technologies, Cloudera is set to spotlight innovations designed to meet the unique demands of Middle Eastern businesses seeking scalable, secure, and efficient solutions for data management and AI-driven digital transformation.
As the digital economy in the region expands, organizations are turning to hybrid cloud environments to boost productivity and ensure regulatory compliance. A recent Cloudera study found that 71% of Middle Eastern organizations currently use public cloud services, with 86% planning to migrate more data to the cloud in the coming years, driven by the demand for flexibility, data sovereignty, and security.
At GITEX Global 2024, Cloudera will present its cutting-edge solutions, including the newly launched Cloudera AI Inference Service, as part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform. This service accelerates the deployment and management of large-scale AI models by up to 36x, providing enterprises with a secure, scalable, and high-performance foundation to advance GenAI from pilot stages to full-scale production.
Cloudera will showcase several key innovations at GITEX:
- Cloudera AI Inference: Utilizing NVIDIA’s Tensor Core GPUs, this solution delivers 4x throughput over traditional CPUs for large language models, accelerating the development of virtual assistants, chatbots, and natural language processing.
- True Hybrid Cloud Vision: Cloudera promotes a unified data, analytics, and AI platform for seamless data and workload movement between on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring security and compliance.
- Open Data Lakehouse Architecture: This architecture combines the flexibility of data lakes with the performance of data warehouses, supporting hybrid and multi-cloud environments for efficient data management.
- Enhanced Security and Governance: Cloudera emphasizes privacy with enterprise-grade features such as access control and auditing, ensuring secure deployment of data and AI models.
Karim Azar, Regional Vice President of Middle East, Turkey & Africa at Cloudera, said, “Our participation in GITEX 2024 underlines our commitment to helping regional enterprises harness the full potential of their data with our hybrid data platform, AI capabilities, and scalable cloud technologies.”
