Confluent Delivers Fastest Route to Achieving Real-Time, Event-Driven Applications for Google Cloud Customers

With Confluent’s new managed Apache Kafka connectors and native Google Cloud Marketplace integration, organizations can quickly build critical use cases powered by the industry’s leading event streaming platform and Google Cloud ecosystem

Confluent, Inc., the event streaming platform pioneer, announced achievements from its strategic partnership with Google Cloud, including being named Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Smart Analytics. This recognition comes as an influx of organizations leverage event streaming for mission-critical use cases running on Google Cloud, including microservices, machine learning, image processing and real-time data pipelines. Since the launch of their strategic partnership, Confluent aimed to deliver the quickest way for organizations to build, deploy and scale event-driven applications on Google Cloud. As a result, the number of Confluent customers deployed on Google Cloud has increased more than tenfold year over year.

“We’re proud to recognize Confluent as our Technology Partner of the Year for Smart Analytics”

“We’re proud to recognize Confluent as our Technology Partner of the Year for Smart Analytics,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, corporate Vice President, Global Ecosystem at Google Cloud. “Confluent on Google Cloud enables customers to quickly and easily build event-driven applications, with powerful analytics capabilities, from the ground-up. Organizations are increasingly turning to Confluent on Google Cloud to build and run their core IT architectures, and we look forward to partnering with Confluent to help them do so.”

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Consumers have incredibly high expectations for applications today. Gone are the days of monolith applications built on batch data dumps. Now, consumers expect applications to quickly accommodate their rapidly changing demands. This requires applications to be built with intelligence and automation to adapt to the context of the moment. To gain this level of flexibility and agility, many organizations are turning to public clouds and open source event streaming solutions like Apache Kafka®. However, streaming data at scale and in real time can be challenging, especially for organizations sitting on decades of data and complicated architectures.

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“Across every industry, organizations are adopting cloud technologies to achieve the business agility and flexibility needed to succeed,” said Simon Hayes, Vice President, Corporate and Business Development at Confluent. “Businesses are looking for ways to harness the vast amounts of critical data in their legacy systems to fuel the next generation of applications built with those cloud tools. Through a strong, strategic partnership with Google Cloud, we’ve built a persistent bridge to cloud for data to span traditional applications and cloud-native environments. Now, organizations can rapidly build game-changing applications that are powered by Confluent’s real-time streaming data and the intelligence of Google Cloud’s powerful analytics and machine learning tools.”

As a company built and operated by the original creators of Kafka, Confluent is dedicated to enabling any organization to harness the full power of event streaming. For Google Cloud customers who lack the size, skills or budget required to run Kafka clusters, they have the option to leverage Confluent’s fully managed Kafka as a service. With Confluent Cloud on Google Cloud Platform, teams don’t have to deal with the burdens of managing and securing underlying Kafka infrastructure. This frees them up to focus on building real-time big data pipelines that can easily scale and be used for applications in machine learning, IoT and across multi-cloud use cases. Since Confluent and Google Cloud established a strategic partnership last year, they have focused on deepening their joint capabilities to provide a fast, frictionless way to build event-driven applications.

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