IBM’s Confluent debuts Streamhouse data architecture for agents

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Dive Brief: 

• IBM’s Confluent rolled out a data architecture called a Streamhouse, which the company said “keeps business context current” for AI agents, according to a Thursday announcement. 

• Confluent’s Data Streaming Platform unifies the ability to stream, connect, process, govern and now query data, serving as the basis for a Streamhouse architecture. The Lightning Tables layer on Confluent enables the query functionality for live data, giving “each agent and application a live, governed view of the business,” Shaun Clowes, general manager of Confluent and data at IBM, said in a press release. 

• A Streamhouse architecture differs from the capabilities of data lakes and warehouses, which are typically used for reporting or batch jobs, to provide a more up-to-date view of the business. “The CIO’s decision shifts from where to move data to which…