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Inside Life Is But A Stream: A Year in Review (Real-Time Data and AI) | Confluent Podcast

Technology leaders share how they process streaming events end-to-end in sub-second latency, secure sensitive data through immutable and governed pipelines, power secured real-time systems in regulated environments, and enable multi-agent AI systems built on fresh, continuously streaming data.

How AI Transforms Retail, Finance and Manufacturing in 2026

In this episode, Dana Gardner sits down with three industry experts from Snowflake: Rosemary DeAragon, Rinesh Patel, and Tim Long to explore how AI will transform retail, financial services, and global manufacturing in 2026. Together, they break down the forces reshaping consumer behavior, enterprise operations, and competitive dynamics across these sectors. Across all three industries, one theme is clear: in 2026, AI will no longer be a side experiment. It will be a foundational driver of growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

The $11 Billion Question: What the acquisition of Confluent by IBM means

What’s remarkable is how long Confluent competed at the highest level. Creating a category and type of application is hard; transitioning to cloud and surviving against hyper scalers is even harder. That alone is a huge achievement. Some see this as a pressured exit. But another way to look at it is as a strategic purchase by IBM to strengthen its position in enterprise data movement and integration.

A New Look for the Next Era of Analytics | ThoughtSpot Brand Update

We're defining the next era of analytics with a bold new look. This new brand identity is a visual representation of our vision, our product, and the way we show up for our customers: clear, confident, and built for what comes next. Because at ThoughtSpot, we know that analytics is not a destination—it's a system of action. This is Agentic Analytics. This is ThoughtSpot.

Cloudera Account 360: New Self-Service Administrative Platform Demo

Cloudera Account 360 is designed to resolve this by providing a single pane of glass from which customers can manage their users and accounts. It offers robust, flexible, and secure account as well as user management capabilities, helping you avoid delays by eliminating the need to raise support cases with Cloudera for simple administrative tasks. Foundational Features Available Now Cloudera Account 360 includes two core feature sets.

Inside ClearML's AMD Instinct GPU Partitioning Integration: Architecture, Orchestration, and Resource Management

GPU underutilization costs enterprises millions annually, with expensive accelerators frequently running single workloads at a fraction of their capacity. According to ClearML’s 2025-2026 State of AI Infrastructure at Scale report, almost half (49.2%) of IT leaders at F1000 companies identified maximizing GPU efficiency across existing hardware, including shared compute and fractional GPUs, as their top priority for expanding AI infrastructure over the next 12-18 months.

Unveiling ThoughtSpot's New Brand

Today, we are unveiling a new ThoughtSpot. Not because we needed a new logo. Because our brand needed to catch up to the company we already are. If you know ThoughtSpot, you know us as more than dashboards or static analytics. You know us as the place where every question has an actionable answer. We are an AI company. We lead in Agentic Analytics. And it is time for our brand to make that unmistakably clear. And yes, I am excited. We are all excited.

GigaOm Radar Recognizes Hitachi Vantara as a Leader and Outperformer in Primary Storage for Second Consecutive Year

Industry recognition highlights Hitachi Vantara's ability to drive innovation in primary storage, spotlighting elite cyber resilience and data protection capabilities, as well as unified management via VSP 360, AI enablement and cloud integration.