Confluent , the data streaming pioneer , announced Confluent Migration Accelerator , a new programme in partnership with the Confluent partner ecosystem to jumpstart organisations ’ data streaming journeys . As enterprises look to migrate away from Apache Kafka and traditional streaming infrastructure , e . g . messaging systems , Confluent ’ s Migration Accelerator will lower the barrier to migration .

Several Confluent partners have joined the Confluent Migration Accelerator to make this migration easier .

Launch partners for the Confluent Migration Accelerator include Amazon Web Services , AWS , EPAM , Google Cloud , iLink , Improving , Microsoft Azure , Platformatory , Psyncopate , CloudMile , Ness , and SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH . Confluent will continue to grow the programme by bringing in more partners with innovative migration solutions to help customers scale faster .

Real-time data is critical for modern businesses to drive new customer experiences , improve business operations and fuel innovation across products and services . Open-source Apache Kafka has gained widespread adoption as a way to harness real-time data , with over 100,000 global organisations and 75 % of the Fortune 500 using it .

Despite its popularity , self-managing open-source Kafka can create significant ongoing operational burdens and risks – ones that only grow over time . While

Kafka serves as the foundation for modern data systems , it does not provide all of the necessary functionalities out-of-the-box like elastic scalability , failover processes , cluster sizing and more . This means spending valuable development time and resources building low-level tooling and maintaining platform performance rather than on other high-value projects .

Confluent has helped over 4,900 + global enterprises start their data streaming journey and was recently named a Vendor by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave : Streaming Data Platforms , Q4 2023 . The report states , streaming data is the pulse of an enterprise . What was once a nice-to-have , is now indispensable for any organisation to operate in real time .

“ Organisations that rely on traditional data infrastructure or less complete Kafka alternatives are burdened with static data that prevents them from flourishing ,” said Paul Mac Farland , VP of Partner and Innovation Ecosystem , Confluent .

Key benefits

• Partner with data streaming experts to augment staff , access funding credits , subject to approval .

• Accelerate migration with packaged migration offerings .

• Global network of Confluent certified system integrators that are ready to help assist the switch to Confluent .

• Migrate to the cloud-native and complete data streaming platform that can run everywhere and in any combination of on-premises , hybrid cloud and multicloud deployments .

• Confluent ’ s Kora Engine powers Confluent Cloud to deliver faster performance and lower latency than open source Apache Kafka .

• Multi-tenancy , elasticity , data balancing , network costs , are optimised with the cloud native platform to reduce spend on infrastructure .

• Moving to Confluent will help automate every layer of the stack to monitor , debug , build .

• Move to Confluent to unlock significant cost savings in comparison to traditional data streaming platforms and open source Kafka . •

Paul Mac Farland , VP of Partner and Innovation Ecosystem , Confluent

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CONFLUENT ANNOUNCES CONFLUENT MIGRATION ACCELERATOR TO JUMP START ENTERPRISE DATA STREAMING