The deal appears to be intended to anchor IBM’s AI stack in the foundational layer of data-in-motion. Confluent’s streaming and event-data infrastructure is seen as critical to supporting enterprise-scale AI deployments as companies increasingly incorporate real-time data pipelines to feed analytics, automation, and generative-AI systems.

It wouldn’t be Christmas without some big spending! IBM’s acquisition of Confluent could address some critical gaps for Big Blue and support customers moving away from batch processing, in search of usable AI.

Confluent is looking to its systems integrator and cloud platform partners to help win over the more than 100,000 organizations using open-source Kafka software and migrate them to the company’s streaming data platform. Data Streaming technology ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., march 29 — Confluent, founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, today announced the launch of Confluent University and the availability of the program’s first two public Kafka training courses. The first events will be held in San ...

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 recommendation on what to watch next on TV, or using a ...