Confluent announces new capabilities to ensure data quality
This week Confluent announced new Confluent Cloud capabilities. They should "give customers confidence that their data is trustworthy and can be easily processed and securely shared. "The data streaming specialist is launching a range of new features to secure data for decision-making.
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Oracle introduces free Oracle 23c database
Oracle is making its Oracle 23c database available to developers for free. Oracle Database 23c Free - Developer Release also brings new functionality.
With the free 23c database release, Oracle wants to meet the change taking place within the IT world. Previously, operations determined the techn... Read more
Confluent acquires Germany-based real-time data firm Immerok
Confluent announced the acquisition of Immerok. The German startup develops a platform that simplifies the development of stream processing applications.
The terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but Immerok has previously raised $17 million. Stream processing applications analyze data in real ... Read more
Amazon MSK Serverless now generally available
The new service will make life a whole lot easier for Apache Kafka users.
Amazon Web Services this week announced the general availability of Amazon MSK Serverless. This is a new serverless option for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka.
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Apache Kafka 3.1 released with OIDC support, open endpoint queries
The distributed event streaming platform keeps getting better.
The Apache Kafka team is showing their commitment to following through on larger projects. Examples of this commitment have beeb the replacement of cluster management tool ZooKeeper and the introduction of topic identifiers.
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Pure Storage goes up the stack with storage-as-code and data services
Only having a modern storage infrastructure is not enough these days. Data needs to be available more and more easily, and it also needs to be available more and more quickly. Pure Storage is responding to this evolution with a number of announcements it is making today. We spoke about this with Ma... Read more
Apache Kafka 3.0 readies for extensive clean-up and Raft metadata mode
Apache Kafka 3.0 is now available, making way for the event processing platform to leave the ZooKeeper project behind for good. It is, therefore, not surprising that the highlights of the release come in the context of Kraft, Kafka’s consensus mechanism, which is still in preview.
The successo... Read more
Confluent confidentially files for IPO
Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka, filed for an IPO confidentially, late yesterday. The filing was a formal intent to have an IPO, with key details like the proposed price range and number of shares still changing.
Confluent is valued at more than $4 billion and along with companies lik... Read more
Pegasystems Process AI for simpler analysis and forecasting
Pegasystems announced on Tuesday that it is adding the ability to apply AI to business processes midstream, intending to help organizations determine whether an anticipated outcome will turn out as predicted.
Pegasystems is introducing another feature that companies can use to analyze streaming ... Read more
Red Hat picks Kogito for BPM on Kubernetes
Red Hat has a new update for its business process management (BPM) platform. The update is meant to make the most of open-source business automation that runs natively on Kubernetes. Senior principal product marketing manager for Red Hat, Phil Simpson, says that the subscription to Red Hat Process ... Read more