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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a series of new cloud services for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, providing customers with capabilities to power digital transformation for their applications and data. This represents HPE’s entry i… Continue reading HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform powers digital transformation for customers’ apps and data
As companies process ever-increasing amounts of data, moving it in real time is a huge challenge for organizations. Confluent is a streaming data platform built on top of the open source Apache Kafka project that’s been designed to process massive numbers of events. To discuss this, and more, Confluent CEO and co-founder Jay Kreps will […] Continue reading Confluent CEO Jay Kreps is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS for a fireside chat
Confluent became the latest company to announce its intent to take the IPO route, officially filing its S-1 paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week. The company, which has raised over $455 million since it launched in 2014, was most recently valued at just over $4.5 billion when it raised $250 million […] Continue reading Confluent’s IPO brings a high-growth, high-burn SaaS model to the public markets
Confluent announced Confluent for Kubernetes, a platform purpose-built to bring cloud-native capabilities to data streams in private infrastructures. To make it easier and faster to harness the value of data in motion across an entire organization, Con… Continue reading Confluent for Kubernetes brings cloud-native capabilities to data streams in private infrastructures
Confluent welcomes two new leaders to the executive team. Cory Scott joins as chief information security officer (CISO) to help build and operate Confluent’s security team. And Melanie Vinson joins the company as Confluent’s chief legal officer to lead… Continue reading Confluent expands executive team with two new appointments
Confluent announced Confluent’s Premium Connector for Oracle Change Data Capture (CDC) Source, a bridge for one of the most common and critical sources of enterprise data to connect to Apache Kafka. It is now possible to identify and capture data that … Continue reading Confluent launches Premium Connector to Oracle Databases to accelerate IT modernization
Confluent, the event streaming platform pioneer, announced the launch of elastic scaling for Apache Kafka. The company unveils the first of this series of new innovations that accelerate how companies can harness the full power of event streaming at an… Continue reading Confluent launches elastic scaling for Apache Kafka, bringing cloud capabilities to event streaming
We find ourselves in a time when certain businesses are being asked to scale to levels they never imagined. Sometimes that increased usage comes in bursts, which means you don’t want to pay for permanent extra capacity you might not always need. Today, Confluent introduced a new scale on demand feature for its Apache Kafka […] Continue reading Confluent introduces scale on demand for Apache Kafka cloud customers
The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today, showing that major investment continues in spite of the dire economic situation at the moment. The company is now valued at $4.5 billion. Today’s round follows last year’s $125 million Series D. At that point the company was […] Continue reading Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation
When Confluent launched a cloud service in 2017, it was trying to reduce some of the complexity related to running a Kafka streaming data application. Today, it introduced a free tier to that cloud service. The company hopes to expand its market beyond large technology company customers, and the free tier should make it easier […] Continue reading Confluent adds free tier to Kafka real-time streaming data cloud service