Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research. AI workloads are heavily dependent on the efficient movement of data. Traditional legacy ...

In an era where data is a strategic asset, organizations often falter not because they lack data—but because their architecture doesn’t scale with their needs. Leaders must design data ecosystems that ...

During a press Q&A at Confluent's Current 2025 conference this week in New Orleans, I asked CEO Jay Kreps whether it's useful to think about Confluent as establishing a "system of record for context" ...

When it comes to business information, chief information officers (CIOs) and chief data officers (CDOs) are tasked with bringing order to chaos. As firms gather ever more data, they face both ...