Confluent Acquires WarpStream

groundcover Acquires Wand to Build Toward Autonomous Infrastructure

September 24, 2026

Cloud & SaaS

groundcover, a BYOC observability platform built on eBPF and OpenTelemetry, acquired Wand, a Kubernetes resource optimization company. The deal combines production observability with Wand’s ability to continuously manage CPU and memory allocation in live Kubernetes environments, enabling more autonomous infrastructure management.

NetApp Acquires JetStream Software

August 14, 2026

Cybersecurity

NetApp acquired JetStream Software, a provider of VMware disaster recovery and migration technology. The deal is intended to expand NetApp’s cyber resilience, data protection, and cloud migration capabilities, enabling customers to start with disaster recovery in cloud environments and evolve toward production migration over time.

IBM Acquires Confluent in an Approximately $11 Billion Deal

December 8, 2025

Data & Analytics

IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent in an all-cash transaction valuing the data streaming company at approximately $11 billion ($31.00 per share). The deal was completed on March 17, 2026, ending Confluent’s tenure as a public company and integrating Confluent’s Apache Kafka-based platform into IBM’s Data and AI portfolio.

Gigstreem Acquires Warp2Biz

June 27, 2023

Telecommunications

Gigstreem, a national provider of residential and commercial broadband networks, has acquired Southern California internet service provider Warp2Biz to expand its network footprint in the greater California region. The acquisition will enable Gigstreem to directly control service quality in Los Angeles and Orange County and accelerate coast-to-coast network expansion.

Confluent Acquires Immerok to Add Apache Flink Stream Processing

January 6, 2023

Data & Analytics

Confluent, the data streaming platform, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Immerok, a Berlin-based team of Apache Flink contributors that built a cloud-native managed Flink service. The acquisition is intended to accelerate Confluent's launch of a fully managed Flink offering for Confluent Cloud and to add deep stream-processing expertise to Confluent's engineering team.

BMC Acquires StreamWeaver

October 1, 2021

Software

BMC Software has acquired StreamWeaver, a provider of observability and AIOps data-integration software, to expand integration capabilities within the BMC Helix platform. The deal is intended to strengthen BMC's AIOps offering by enabling richer data ingestion and improved automated remediation across customers' toolchains; financial terms were not disclosed.