IBM announced its multi-billion-dollar buyout of streaming Confluent as stock shares spiked nearly 30% and IBM at about 1$ after it was revealed.

IBM's $11B Confluent acquisition completes its hybrid cloud stack, with Kafka streaming joining Red Hat and HashiCorp for enterprise AI infrastructure.

According to a press release, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Confluent announced that IBM will acquire all ...

IBM advances AI strategy with $11B Confluent acquisition, boosting real-time data processing and hybrid cloud capabilities.

The big purchase is intended to help bolster IBM’s AI strategy. IBM said Monday it’s buying data streaming platform Confluent in a deal worth $11 billion that will help bolster the technology ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. IBM doesn’t release a whole lot of news detailing the ins ...

DB2: What’s in a Name? The name DB2, or IBM Database 2, was first given to the Database Management System or DBMS, in 1983 when IBM released DB2 on its MVS mainframe platform. For some years DB2, was ...

Relational database management systems help companies in almost every industry harness and tap into the power of the information they gather, store, manage and analyze for business operations. One of ...

IBM is giving recently acquired Informix a new shine. IBM executives on Monday will unveil the first update to Informix's flagship database software since Big Blue acquired the struggling software ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...