Activist investor Carl Icahn's latest target is a struggling company specializing in software for processing big data.
"Cloudera is a pure-play single platform company and there's nothing to breakup, so we'd imagine that the compatible areas of Mr. Icahn's historical playbook would be restricted to 1) agitating for a sale, or 2) pushing for big expense reductions to boost cashflows," BTIG analysts led by Edward Parker wrote in a note distributed to clients after the Cloudera stake was disclosed.
"The prospect for the latter's success is complicated by the fact that the stickiness of Cloudera's current revenue stream is currently subject to a high degree of skepticism. Indeed, Cloudera's future largely hinges on the success of the upcoming CDP [Cloudera Data Platform] release, which pivots the company's big data management platform from on-prem towards hybrid and multi-cloud environments.""While the involvement of Mr.
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