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Pollinate adds value to merchant services for both SMBs and banks with Confluent Cloud This article is sponsored by:

Pollinate was born out of the idea that banks should take control of their merchant experiences for SMB clients. To do that it needed to understand payments data through the use of Confluent Cloud.

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Enterprise hits and misses - Zoom stirs an AI privacy controversy, ESG has teeth, and open source hits a commercial crossroads This article is sponsored by:

This week - Zoom sparks an AI privacy debate with a controversial terms and conditions update. Open source hits a commercial 'fork' in the road, and does ESG have the regulatory teeth to put 'sexy' generative AI on the IT spending back burner? Your whiffs are back, and so am I.

Cycling sportswear brand Rapha says its MACH marathon is proving a winner This article is sponsored by:

Transitioning off monolithic to a MACH-based headless and best-of-breed e-commerce solution is making Rapha’s operations more efficient

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Confluent continues to deliver as CEO Jay Kreps pitches an era of data streaming platforms This article is sponsored by:

Confluent’s Q2 2023 earnings show significant cloud growth and large customers spending more with the platform.

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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna - how Red Hat experience will help build a multi-billion dollar generative AI consulting business This article is sponsored by:

We did it with Red Hat OpenShift; we'll do the same again with generative AI, argues IBM boss.

Enterprise hits and misses - Oracle and Red Hat tussle, gamification creepifies, and AI regulatory pressures mount This article is sponsored by:

This week - as regulatory pressures mount, CIOs and CTOs are in the generative AI hot seat of opportunity. "Creepy gamification" gets skewered, as does crypto-blockchain. Oracle and Red Hat tussle over open source, and I'm in the whiffs section.

A pivotal moment as open source starts to square up to sustainability This article is sponsored by:

Pressures growing around the issue of sustainability are already starting to bring forth a new form of fruit, where open source software is being used to develop new ways of controlling energy-hungry applications out in the real world.

Former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst on business strategy in a digital world This article is sponsored by:

Former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says that digital innovation and flexibility demands new systems, processes and culture - posing challenges for established enterprises.

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How TomTom is open to building a digital twin of the planet This article is sponsored by:

Mapping and navigation specialist TomTom has a new vision of the future

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GitHub Universe - 94 million happy coders and success for open source, says CEO This article is sponsored by:

Day one of the GitHub Universe event in San Francisco saw an enthusiastic audience celebrate the success of open source development in recent years

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US Citizen and Immigration Services moves to real-time data sharing with Confluent This article is sponsored by:

The Homeland Security department is hoping that it can move from spreadsheets and email exchanges, to real-time event streaming with Confluent, in order to better provide immigration services.

US’s first cloud-based data repository for derivatives market puts Confluent at its KOR This article is sponsored by:

KOR is a dedicated trade reporting platform that has adopted Confluent Cloud and a data streaming architecture to improve compliance processes.

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Confluent CEO on taking data streaming mainstream - ‘How can we make it easy?’ This article is sponsored by:

Jay Kreps, Confluent CEO, is thinking about how to make the company’s data streaming platform easier to use, understanding that for mass adoption it can’t be limited to highly technical Apache Kafka engineers.