As organizations modernize and look to seize AI and digital opportunities, they should do so with a modern, trusted, data-centric hybrid cloud. And as they do that, they must consider open, ecosystem-based technologies with AIfriendly capabilities. This paper from analyst firm IDC explores the hybrid cloud, cloud-native, and data capabilities stemming from the partnership between Red Hat and Cloudera and examines the impact of this deep integration of technologies on the provision of turnkey solutions to organizations.