From Dumb Pipes to a Smart Data Plane: Introducing Schema IDs in Apache Kafka Headers

Apache Kafka powers massive, mission-critical data streams at enterprises worldwide. But in many organizations, those streams still behave like dumb pipes: raw JSON or bytes flowing between services, limited governance, weak contracts between teams, and data that’s hard to reuse for analytics or artificial intelligence (AI).

Confluent Cloud for Government Achieves FedRAMP Moderate: Mission-Ready Data Streaming for Federal Agencies

Federal agencies must perform a high-stakes balancing act: Modernize legacy systems, break down data silos, and deliver real-time citizen services—all while operating under strict security and compliance requirements with constrained budgets and staff. Today, we're announcing that Confluent Cloud for Government (CCG) is now available on the FedRAMP Marketplace, with FedRAMP Moderate authorization achieved through the competitive FedRAMP 20x Pilot program.

Evolve25: Fireside chat with Brian Martin From AbbVie

Discover how AbbVie leverages Knowledge Graphs and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to automate clinical study reports, reducing draft times by up to 80%. Learn about their "three-class formalism" for human-in-the-loop governance and how they achieved a 250,000-hour FTE return on investment in 2024. This session provides a strategic roadmap for scaling AI in highly regulated industries while maintaining strict data security and clinical integrity.

AI won't fix your SaaS company (w/ Adam Robinson @Retention.com)

Will AI change the way SaaS companies grow? According to Adam Robinson, founder and CEO of Retention.com, AI is not the answer most founders think it is. Adam has built multiple SaaS companies and scaled Retention.com from $0 to $22M ARR in four years without funding. In this episode of Move the Needle, he explains why the companies that scale – and the ones that stall – are separated by one thing.

Sustainable Streaming Architectures: A GreenOps Guide to Efficient, Low-Carbon Data Systems

Data infrastructure growth has a direct, measurable relationship with energy consumption. As organizations ingest more events, retain more data, and deploy more always-on services, infrastructure energy use increases—often faster than business value. For streaming systems, this effect can be amplified by long-running clusters, peak-based sizing, and duplicated pipelines. Sustainability in this context is not about environmental reporting or corporate commitments.

Claude Can Now Build Inside Astera Centerprise. Here's How.

Astera Centerprise is already one of the most AI-forward data platforms available. Its built-in agentic AI creates data models, builds ETL/ELT pipelines, generates source-to-target mappings, orchestrates workflows, prepares data, and deploys schemas to production, all through natural language. You describe what you need; the AI uses real Centerprise tools to build it.

insightsoftware Recognized in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software

In 2025, insightsoftware was recognized in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software. The recognition focuses on insightsoftware’s JustPerform product, which offers web-based budgeting, planning, and forecasting with an Excel-like interface and self-service reporting, dashboards, and analytics.

Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake In March

Hear what’s new at Snowflake in March, from major product launches to upcoming community events, and more. Next generation Snowflake Notebooks are now generally available, delivering a familiar Jupyter-based experience directly in Snowflake workspaces. Online model inference in the online feature store is also generally available, enabling millisecond predictions for real-time use cases like fraud detection and personalized recommendations, with no extra infrastructure to manage.

EVOLVE25: CRO Keynote with Frank O'Dowd

Learn why 95% of AI implementations fail and how "winners" succeed by solving narrow, high-value back-office problems with a trusted data lakehouse foundation. Discover the latest innovations in private cloud inferencing, data lineage via Octopai, and the new "AI in a Box" solution developed with Dell and NVIDIA. From managing 3-exabyte data lakes to reducing TCO on AWS, see how Cloudera is modernizing the open data lakehouse for the next era of enterprise intelligence..

Is AI dashboard a dead end? Here's what a real analytics platform actually does

Here’s a question worth taking seriously if you are a BI practitioner: if I can describe what I want to an LLM and have a working dashboard in under a minute, what exactly am I paying for with a purpose-built analytics platform like Yellowfin? It is a fair challenge.