IBM Acquires Confluent in an Approximately $11 Billion Deal

Confluent Acquires WarpStream

September 9, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Confluent, Inc. has acquired WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) data streaming platform, to add a BYOC deployment option to its product portfolio. The deal expands Confluent's offerings for high-scale logging, observability, and data lake ingestion workloads and is not expected to have a material impact on Confluent's 2024 financial results.

IBM Acquires HashiCorp for $6.4 Billion to Build End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform

April 24, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

IBM agreed to acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, valuing the deal at $6.4 billion, to expand IBM’s hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure lifecycle management and security capabilities. The transaction closed in February 2025, and HashiCorp became an IBM company to help clients automate and secure hybrid cloud and AI infrastructure.

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.

IBM to Acquire StreamSets and webMethods from Software AG for €2.13 Billion

December 18, 2023

IT Services

IBM entered into a definitive agreement to acquire StreamSets and webMethods—Software AG’s Super iPaaS enterprise integration and API/data platforms—for €2.13 billion in cash. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2024, subject to customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions.

Salesforce Acquires Informatica for $8 Billion

May 27, 2025

Data & Analytics

Salesforce has acquired Informatica in an approximately $8 billion equity-value deal, paying $25 per share in cash to Informatica’s Class A and Class B-1 common stockholders. The acquisition is intended to strengthen Salesforce’s “Agentforce 360” by embedding Informatica’s enterprise cloud data management capabilities—catalog, integration, governance, quality/privacy, metadata management, and master data management—into Salesforce’s data platform.

IBM To Acquire DataStax to Enhance watsonx and Enterprise GenAI Data Capabilities

March 1, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

IBM announced its intent to acquire DataStax, an AI and data solutions provider, to enhance IBM’s watsonx portfolio and help enterprises unlock value from unstructured data for generative AI. DataStax contributes AstraDB/DataStax Enterprise (NoSQL and vector database powered by Apache Cassandra) and Langflow (low-code, open-source RAG and multi-agent app builder). The deal is expected to close in Q2 2025, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.