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

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 ...

Kafka performance relies on implementing continuous intelligence and real-time analytics. It is important to be able to ingest, check the data, and make timely business decisions. Stream processing ...

Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced it has joined the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). Redpanda, running ...

(IBM) and Confluent announced that IBM will acquire all outstanding Confluent shares for $31 each, a transaction that values the data-streaming company at $11 billion. Based in Mountain View, CA, ...

IBM agrees to acquire data streaming leader Confluent for $11 billion to accelerate its 'Agentic AI' strategy. Read about the $31/share deal, the shift to real-time data infrastructure, and the market ...

IBM (IBM) revealed today it plans to acquire Confluent (CFLT), a pioneer in data streaming, for about $11B, prompting Confluent shares to surge more than 25% during early Monday trading. Confluent ...

IBM has agreed to acquire cloud-native enterprise data streaming platform Confluent in a move designed to expand its portfolio of tools for building AI applications The company said Monday in a ...

Redpanda is joining Akamai’s Qualified Compute Partner Program as an ISV partner with its real-time data streaming software running on the Akamai Cloud as a service for AI agents and AI applications.

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 ...

IBM is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire data infrastructure company Confluent for an estimated $11 billion. This potential deal would si ...