IBM's $11 billion deal for Confluent is mainly focused on #datamanagement for #AI, but also raises possibilities for its Red Hat and HashiCorp portfolios, and for some, uneasy echoes of past worries about #opensource.
My writeup on #observability and #ITops implications for the #IBM - #Confluent acquisition, featuring reaction and analysis from Torsten Volk, Rob Strechay, Steven Dickens and more: https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366636157/IBMs-Confluent-buy-has-observability-IT-ops-implications #enterprisetech #enterpriseIT #kafka #OSS



