IBM Completes Confluent Acquisition and Broadens Nvidia Partnership with Blackwell GPUs
IBM completed its acquisition of Confluent, the data streaming platform used by 6,500 enterprises including 40% of the Fortune 500, enabling real-time data integration across its AI and hybrid cloud services. IBM expanded its Nvidia partnership by integrating watsonx.data with cuDF and offering Blackwell GPUs on IBM Cloud in Q2.
1. IBM Acquires Confluent
IBM completed its acquisition of Confluent, the Apache Kafka-based streaming platform relied on by more than 6,500 enterprises, including 40% of the Fortune 500, to power real-time operations and underpin enterprise AI, automation and hybrid cloud strategies.
2. Real-Time Data Integration Across IBM Platform
Day-one integrations connect Confluent with watsonx.data, IBM MQ, webMethods Hybrid Integration and IBM Z, enabling live event streaming with built-in governance, lineage and quality controls for AI models, agents and mainframe workloads.
3. Expanded Nvidia Partnership
IBM is integrating its watsonx.data SQL engine with Nvidia’s cuDF to accelerate large-scale data queries and will offer Nvidia Blackwell GPUs on IBM Cloud in Q2 to support high-performance AI deployments.