Cloudera updates platform to advance unified data access

Cloudera has announced a platform update that integrates Trino, Cloudera Shared Data Experience (SDX), and Cloudera Octopai Data Lineage, aiming to deliver unified data access, control, smarter governance, and lineage across the entire data estate.

The update intends to allow organisations to unite data silos, securely enable self-service access, and automate governance workflows.

With Trino’s federation capabilities, enterprises can securely query distributed data using natural language interfaces and the power of the engines closest to the data. At the same time, Cloudera’s centralised governance helps to ensure consistent access control and compliance across all environments.

Cloudera customers can deploy Trino in data centers or public clouds and federate data across multiple systems using certified connectors.

The integration with SDX unifies metadata and access controls, aiming to simplify management and enabling secure, self-service data access.

By unifying metadata, access controls, governance, and security across the entire enterprise, Cloudera delivers a single, secure endpoint to access all data—across multiple engines, clouds, and on-premises environments—without duplicating security or access policies.

Additionally, Cloudera Octopai Data Lineage tracks the end-to-end journey of data, delivering transparency for all data transformations, including data originating outside the Cloudera ecosystem.

“This integration delivers a powerful three-fold advantage for ANZ organisations: flexibility to query data anywhere, trust through unified governance and security, and transparency with full data lineage," Vini Cardoso, CTO of Cloudera Australia and New Zealand, said.

"Combined with AI-driven insights, this creates a secure, governed, and fully traceable federated query environment – essential for enterprises operating across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures in highly regulated sectors such as public sector, financial services and healthcare, where compliance and speed are critical.”