"IBM and Confluent together will enable enterprises to deploy generative and agentic AI better and faster by providing trusted communication and data flow between environments, applications, and APIs,"
"Data is spread across public and private clouds, datacenters and countless technology providers. With the acquisition of Confluent, IBM will provide the smart data platform for enterprise IT, purpose-built for AI."
"end-to-end integration of applications, analytics, data systems and AI agents"
IBM will acquire Confluent for $11 billion to bolster real-time data streaming and AI capabilities. Confluent is an open source data streaming platform based on Kafka that supplies real-time data flows for applications, analytics tools, and AI agents. The acquisition supports end-to-end integration of applications, analytics, data systems and AI within a hybrid cloud strategy. Predicted growth in global data volumes and a surge in new applications increase demand for high-quality, real-time data. Enterprises facing siloed data across clouds and datacenters can use Confluent to streamline data flows and enable faster AI deployment.
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