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Cloudera bolstered its hybrid cloud and multi-cloud chops today with the acquisition of Taikun, a Czech Republic-based developer of software for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters from a single pane of glass.
Kubernetes has long been a core component of the big data stack, providing a solid technological foundation for running computers clusters on-prem and in the cloud. However, since every cloud vendor provides its own Kubernetes distribution, customers have had to manage each K8S deployment individually.
This is the dilemma that Taikun addresses. The company develops software that enables customers to deploy and manage K8S clusters running on multiple public clouds from a single control plane, thereby simplifying operational and technical complexity for customers.
Taikun’s offering supports Kubernetes running anywhere, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) from Google Cloud, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) from Microsoft, and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) from Amazon. It also supports on-prem and private cloud deployments utilizing OpenShift from IBM’s Red Hat subsidiary, as well as clusters from Proxmox, Zededa, VMware Tanzu, Zadara, and others.
This has obvious appeal to Cloudera, which supports its big data and AI stack running across a variety of
Taikun simplifies Kubernetes deployments and management
clouds and underlying K8s platforms. The Silicon Valley software and services firm sees Taikun helping to streamline the deployments of big data and AI workloads on whatever cloud or on-prem K8s platform they want.
Taikun boasts more than 100 prebuilt Helm charts that allow customers to deploy frameworks, databases, and applications to K8s platforms. Cloudera says Taikun will make it easier for customers to deploy Cloudera’s tools and technologies, including Spark, HBase, Kafka, and Trino, as well as third-party graph databases, on their choice of K8s platform.
“This acquisition marks a pivotal step in our mission to bring the cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides,” stated Cloudera CEO Charles Sansbury. “By integrating Taikun’s container-native platform in our stack, we are removing operational barriers and enabling our customers to unlock faster insights, make smarter decisions, and drive real-time action in every corner of their business.”
The Taikun engineering team will join Cloudera’s Engineering, Product, and Support organization. Adam Skotnicky, former CEO of Taikun, said Cloudera is the right home for the company’s tech. “Only Cloudera is the right organization for us to join during this critical moment for data and AI,” he stated.
Taikun was founded in 2018 in the Czech capital of Prague. The company was a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and OpenInfra Foundation. According to Open Infra, Taikun had about 30 employees and customers in telecommunications, cloud service providers, global system integrators, independent software vendors, and other businesses.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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