Quick Take: Confluent Acquires WarpStream
Confluent announced the acquisition of WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming solution with a unique architecture. The acquisition adds a new cloud-native, bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) product to Confluent’s portfolio, complementing its existing offerings: Confluent Cloud, a fully managed, serverless platform, and Confluent Platform, a self-managed software solution.
Confluent Introduces Partner-Driven Real-Time AI Initiative + New AI Tools
Confluent, a leader in data streaming and steward of the open-source Apache Kafka system, recently announced a new initiative called “Data Streaming for AI” to aid organizations in developing real-time AI applications. It also introduced new AI-enabled tools.