Confluent Launches Data Streaming for AI and Adds Apache Flink

In this week’s real-time analytics news: Sovereign Cloud efforts in the EU are heating up. SUSE launched a Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment to help businesses understand gaps in their digital strategy.

The real winners in satellite IoT in 2026 will be those who treat resilience, migration planning, and data discipline as strategic priorities.

For manufacturing organizations that embraced smart manufacturing in 2025, the payoff extended beyond operational metrics to strategic value creation.

The industrial sector has always thrived on adaptation. AI, IoT, software-defined systems, and digital twins represent the next stage of that evolution.

2025 was the beta phase of AI agents. Today’s new phase of AI agents requires that they designed with surgical precision to resolve specific frictions.

The ability to deliver AI-ready, trusted data depends less on new tools and more on how effectively DataOps are automated, governed, and observed.

With the right automation framework in place, infrastructure can react as conditions change, without human intervention.

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