Why IBM's $11 billion Confluent deal could supercharge its unique AI strategy

While $11 billion is a lot of money to spend, IBM is betting that acquiring Confluent and its popular data streaming platform ...
TechCrunch

Confluent adds free tier to Kafka real-time streaming data cloud service

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 ...

Confluent surges after IBM reveals plan to acquire data streaming pioneer for $11B

IBM (IBM) revealed today it plans to acquire Confluent (CFLT), a pioneer in data streaming, for about $11B, prompting ...

IBM will acquire Confluent to address growing needs for real-time data in AI models

Confluent sells an enterprise version of the open-source Kafka data streaming platform, which it said is used by 80% of the ...

Does IBM’s Major $11 Billion Deal for Confluent Make Its Stock a Buy, Sell, or Hold?

After Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL) expanded its partnership with the vibe coding platform, Replit, tech giant IBM (IBM) announced ...
Seeking Alpha

Confluent: The Data Streaming Leader

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 ...
eWeek

Confluent Cloud Uses Apache Kafka for Streaming Data as a Service

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chatbot chats, including sensitive data, were exposed on Google after xAI’s share feature leaked them. AI is rapidly moving beyond creating static videos to generating ...
InfoWorld

How to choose a streaming data platform

Streaming data is generated continuously, often by thousands of data sources, such as sensors or server logs. Streaming data records are often small, perhaps a few kilobytes each, but there ...