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

IBM has cracked open its wallet again, agreeing to shell out $11 billion for Confluent in a bid to glue together the data ...

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

Data contracts are foundational to properly designed and well behaved data pipelines. Kafka and Flink provide the key ...

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 ...

IBM agrees to acquire data streaming leader Confluent for $11 billion to accelerate its 'Agentic AI' strategy. Read about the ...

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Time and again, commercial Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has demonstrated the value of the MapR-FS file system that underpins its Hadoop stack and differentiates it, more than any other feature ...

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 ...

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 ...