TLDR: Cloudera, a global data and AI platform provider, has partnered with Krutrim, India’s sovereign cloud platform, to bolster AI and data analytics capabilities for Indian enterprises. This collaboration, announced at Cloudera’s EVOLVE25 conference, will initially power large-scale analytics and data lake workloads for Ola on Krutrim Cloud, with plans for broader enterprise adoption. The partnership aims to accelerate AI-driven innovation by providing scalable infrastructure and trusted data platforms tailored for the Indian market.
Singapore, August 7, 2025 – Cloudera, a leading provider of data and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, today announced a significant strategic partnership with Krutrim, India’s indigenous sovereign cloud platform. This collaboration is set to enhance large-scale analytics and data lake workloads, aiming to accelerate AI-driven innovation and digital transformation across Indian enterprises.
The alliance was unveiled at Cloudera’s EVOLVE25 conference in Singapore, marking a pivotal step in bringing advanced AI capabilities to data wherever it resides. The initial phase of this partnership will see the Cloudera-based solution powering mission-critical analytics and data lake workloads for Ola, a prominent Indian mobility company, on the Krutrim Cloud. Following this initial deployment, the integrated solution will be made available to a wider array of enterprise customers leveraging the Krutrim platform.
The core objective of this strategic alliance is to enable Krutrim to fully harness the potential of data and AI. This includes driving business transformation, improving customer experiences, and supporting the development of advanced data engineering, AI training, and inference at scale. Krutrim is actively building a vertically integrated cloud infrastructure designed to meet enterprise-scale needs, encompassing compute, storage, data management, and AI-powered end applications specifically tailored for the Indian market. Their AI computing stack features foundational models for text, voice, and video, adapted to India’s diverse linguistic and cultural landscape.
Navendu Agarwal, Senior Vice President and Head of Business at Krutrim, emphasized the strategic importance of this partnership, stating, “We are focused on building India’s cloud with deep integrated capabilities across infrastructure, data, and AI to better serve the unique needs of the Indian market. With Cloudera on Krutrim, it will give our clients the scalability and performance to advance data lake use cases with confidence and empower businesses to create and package cost effective solutions on India’s own sovereign cloud.”
Cloudera’s role involves providing its robust data platform and consulting services, which have enabled Krutrim to develop solutions capable of processing large-scale datasets in real-time from various sources. This capability facilitates faster and more accurate intelligence, already benefiting Ola. The platform’s inherent scalability and security are crucial in empowering Krutrim to deliver AI-powered data lake solutions to businesses, startups, and researchers nationwide.
Mayank Baid, Regional Vice President for India & South Asia at Cloudera, highlighted the synergy between the two companies’ visions. “Krutrim’s vision to create a robust AI infrastructure for India aligns perfectly with Cloudera’s mission to enable trusted enterprise AI through data,” Baid commented. He further added, “With Ola Group already running mission-critical workloads on this stack, and working with our professional services team on data quality, governance and natural language access, we’re excited about co-developing and implementing the solution framework that brings to the broader enterprise adoption in India.”
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This partnership reinforces Cloudera’s position as a key enabler for data-driven transformation in India’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, while simultaneously underscoring Krutrim’s commitment to establishing an enterprise-grade, India-first cloud solution that addresses the high demands of modern enterprises.
