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

According to a press release, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Confluent announced that IBM will acquire all ...

The digital economy, a sprawling ecosystem of interconnected platforms and services, thrives on immediacy. In this fast-paced environment, the concept of "real-time markets" has moved from a niche ...

Ververica GmbH, the original creator of Apache Flink, today announced a new open-source sub-project of Apache Flink called Flink Agents, an embedded intelligent artificial intelligence system that ...

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 current CRM scene keeps advancing at a rapid pace, with innovative companies now leaning toward options combining ...

Why AI agents struggle without real-time enterprise context and how MCP servers are becoming the foundation for trusted, ...

International Business Machines Corp (NYSE: IBM) is reportedly in advanced discussions to acquire data-infrastructure company Confluent Inc (NASDAQ: CFLT) for approximately $11 billion.

In hyper-competitive streaming, platforms win or lose based on the strength of their data and AI infrastructure. Few leaders have shaped this foundation as directly as Manoj Yerrasani, who oversees ...

Pundits have claimed the arrival of the “year of AI” many times over the last few decades. How well have those predictions worked out? But with today’s cheaper computing and more streaming data, ...

Real-time sensor twins reshape smart homes, but also introduce hidden privacy, compliance and liability risks every consumer ...