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

While $11 billion is a lot of money to spend, IBM is betting that acquiring Confluent and its popular data streaming platform will generate a superior return compared to the capex-heavy strategies of ...

IBM (IBM) revealed today it plans to acquire Confluent (CFLT), a pioneer in data streaming, for about $11B, prompting Confluent shares to surge more than 25% during early Monday trading. Confluent ...

IBM will pay $11 billion in cash to acquire Confluent. Confluent is a much smaller tech stock, and growing much faster than IBM. In a press release this morning, IBM announced the deal as a signed, ...

Imagine it’s 3 a.m. and your pager goes off. A downstream service is failing, and after an hour of debugging you trace the issue to a tiny, undocumented schema change made by an upstream team. The fix ...

Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka IBM has cracked open its wallet again, agreeing to shell out $11 billion for Confluent in a bid to glue ...

Ever wondered if Confluent’s recent share price gives you a golden opportunity or if you are walking into a value trap? Let’s dive beneath the surface to find out what is really driving the story here ...

IBM (IBM +0.60%) wants to be an artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse. The tech giant is scooping up data-streaming dynamo Confluent (CFLT 0.03%) to add to its growing collection of AI-enablers.

International Business Machines has agreed to acquire data-infrastructure company Confluent in a deal representing an enterprise value of $11 billion. Under the agreement, IBM would acquire all issued ...

Jackson Peak Capital, an investment management firm, released its third-quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Q3 saw equities, especially speculative sectors, ...

IBM accelerates cloud drive with $11 billion Confluent deal as AI demand booms Big Blue, under CEO Arvind Krishna, has doubled down on M&A to beef up its cloud and software business.