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IBM Broadens Its Enterprise Software Stack With Confluent Buy

December 8, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

This year, about 45 percent of the revenues at Big Blue will come from software. …

AI

Weaving A Streaming Stack Like Twitter And Yahoo

March 6, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Weaving A Streaming Stack Like Twitter And Yahoo

The hyperscalers of the world have to deal with dataset sizes – both streaming and at rest – and real-time processing requirements that put them into an entirely different class of computing. …

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Kafka Wakes Up And Is Metamorphosed Into A Database

August 30, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Sometimes a database is like a collection of wax tablets that you can stack and sort through to update, and these days, sometimes it is more like a river that has a shape defined by its geography but it is constantly changing and flowing and that flow, more than anything else, defines the information that drives the business. …

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