Confluent has announced it has acquired WarpStream, an Apache Kafka®-compatible data streaming platform. WarpStream’s Bring Your Own Cloud (“BYOC”) data streaming architecture is designed for organizations running large scale workloads with relaxed latency requirements in their own cloud environment, perfect for logging, observability, and feeding data lakes. With the acquisition ofRead More…

Confluent has unveiled its 2024 Data Streaming Report: Breaking Down the Barriers to Business Agility & Innovation. The report dives into how organizations use data streaming to innovate, accelerate AI adoption, improve business agility, power customer experiences, and overcome data accessibility and management challenges. Based on a survey of 4,110 ITRead More…

Confluent has announced the general availability of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink, a fully managed service for Apache Flink that enables customers to process data in real time and create high-quality, reusable data streams. Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is available across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Backed by Confluent’sRead More…

Confluent has announced the Confluent Migration Accelerator, a new programme in partnership with the Confluent partner ecosystem to jumpstart organisations’ data streaming journeys. As enterprises look to migrate away from Apache Kafka and traditional streaming infrastructure (e.g. messaging systems), Confluent’s Migration Accelerator will lower the barrier to migration. Real-time dataRead More…

Confluent is now available on SAP Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. Confluent integrates with SAP Datasphere and delivers a secure, governed solution for accessing SAP data as fully managed data streams for customers. “SAP Data is a vital business asset spanning so many important functions from manufacturing to supplyRead More…

Confluent has announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, and also announced that it was named the Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Google Marketplace–Data and Analytics. Through their long-standing partnership, Confluent and Google Cloud make it easy for customers to connect and process real-time data flows throughoutRead More…

Confluent has announced that Confluent Cloud on Microsoft Azure is now available to customers in Qatar through Microsoft Cloud region in country. “Data sovereignty and residency are rapidly becoming critical to digital projects across the region, which has led to a fundamental shift in the expectations of business leaders regardingRead More…

Confluent has announced the Connect with Confluent technology partner program. The program enables partners to bring fully managed data streams directly to their customers through native integrations with Confluent Cloud. It also provides access to Confluent’s leading expertise for technical, sales, and marketing support to amplify go-to-market efforts and ensure customer successRead More…

Confluent has announced new Confluent Cloud capabilities that give customers confidence that their data is trustworthy and can be easily processed and securely shared. With Data Quality Rules, an expansion of the Stream Governance suite, organizations can easily resolve data quality issues so data can be relied on for making business-critical decisions. InRead More…