As CEO of Confluent, which offers enterprise-grade capabilities for the open source Kafka event streaming platform, Jay Kreps is as well-versed in the technology as his two co-founders, having ...

IBM Corp. said today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire streaming data firm Confluent Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at about $11 billion, paying $31 per share in cash for all ...

With the new “Build with Confluent” program, the company looks to help systems integrators develop use-case solutions around the Confluent data streaming platform and market those solutions to ...

Streaming data and Kafka specialist Confluent on Monday announced that it has acquired WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming data solution. Confluent plans to use WarpStream’s cloud-native solution ...

IBM said it is acquiring Confluent in a deal worth $11 billion. The addition of Confluent will strengthen IBM's artificial intelligence portfolio. IBM will pay $31 per share in cash for all of the ...

I recently caught up with Gwen Shapira, System Architect at Confluent, to talk about the market dynamics of new “fast data” technologies and what is driving its rapid adoption across large companies.