By @iTnews_au
Publication Date: 2025-12-08 19:58:00
IBM will buy data infrastructure company Confluent in a $US11 billion ($16.6 billion) deal, expanding its cloud computing offerings to capitalize on an AI-driven demand boom.
Big Blue under CEO Arvind Krishna has doubled down on M&A activity to strengthen its cloud and software business – a high-growth, high-margin area – as customers invest in modernizing their digital infrastructure to accommodate complex artificial intelligence applications.
Confluent provides the technology necessary to manage massive, real-time data streams for artificial intelligence models.
“IBM and Confluent together…