Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka IBM has cracked open its wallet again, agreeing to shell out $11 billion for Confluent in a bid to glue ...

IBM's $11B Confluent acquisition completes its hybrid cloud stack, with Kafka streaming joining Red Hat and HashiCorp for enterprise AI infrastructure.

Confluent sells an enterprise version of the open-source Kafka data streaming platform, which it said is used by 80% of the Fortune 100. IBM said the addition of Confluent underlines a broader IBM ...

The proposed deal will see IBM acquire Confluent for $31 per share, which is a 30% premium over Confluent’s stock price prior to the deal being announced. The deal has garnered support from investors ...

What are the challenges you faced in building a fully managed cloud-native Kafka services? How does Confluent engineering solve these things? Will LaForest: When we began Confluent’s journey to create ...

While $11 billion is a lot of money to spend, IBM is betting that acquiring Confluent and its popular data streaming platform will generate a superior return compared to the capex-heavy strategies of ...

Confluent’s shift to a consumption model will drive growth, in my opinion, by attracting new customers, improving satisfaction, and encouraging customers to increase their usage. Confluent’s new Flink ...

How the fully managed Kafka service can bring peace and simplicity to the lives of those who depend on event streaming infrastructure. Imagine you are getting groceries delivered, or looking for a ...

Like the human central nervous system that transmits electrical and chemical messages to and from the brain to regulate our body functions, an event streaming platform facilitates the capture and ...