IBM acquires Confluent for USD 11 billion to boost real-time data streaming and strengthen its AI and hybrid cloud strategy, ...

Confluent, Inc.'s user markets for data streaming have a long runway ahead. Open source Apache Kafka is ubiquitously used for data streaming. Confluent's wheelhouse is scalable data streaming and ...

The proposed deal will see IBM acquire Confluent for $31 per share, which is a 30% premium over Confluent’s stock price prior ...

The open source Kafka real-time stream data service was incubated at LinkedIn over five years ago. Since then, Kafka has become an Apache open-source project and the original developers left LinkedIn ...

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The Apache Kafka distributed data streaming engine has finally hit version 1.0, a milestone that indicates the platform is finally ready for mainstream business. “Apache Kafka is playing a bigger role ...

The move reflects a rapidly intensifying race among technology giants to strengthen the data foundations required for ...

The Apache Kafka phenomenon reached a new high today when Confluent announced a $50 million investment from the venture capital firm Sequoia. The investment signals renewed confidence that Kafka is ...

When Confluent launched a cloud service in 2017, it was trying to reduce some of the complexity related to running a Kafka streaming data application. Today, it introduced a free tier to that cloud ...

Hadoop and big data platforms were originally known for scale, not speed. But the arrival of high performance compute engines like Spark and streaming engines have cleared the way for bringing batch ...