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Krishna explains Confluent acquisition for real-time data streaming to fuel AI

2026-05-06 · 2 company · 7 thematic

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arvind krishna

Arvind Krishna has spent 35+ years at IBM, becoming CEO in 2020. He orchestrated the company's pivot to hybrid cloud and AI, including the $34B Red Hat acquisition and spin-off of Kyndryl. He holds a PhD and 15 patents.

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“Confluent is the best infrastructure for beginning to move data and for exposing data for everything else. Also, there are so many companies that struggle with having real-time data. Confluent with its Kafka backbone is the best in the wor…”

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