Confluent Launches Data Streaming for AI and Adds Apache Flink

Hyperscale low-bandwidth IoT satellite constellations will soon power remote asset tracking, environmental monitoring, and agricultural telemetry.

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.

A look beyond the artificial intelligence hype: What will it take for real value to start showing up as companies implement AI?

AI agents are transforming Order Management Systems (OMS) from a static rules-based engine to a dynamic intelligence-based strategist.

Networking will play a more strategic role in enabling real-time digital operations and supporting the next generation of AI-powered applications.

The concept of “data in motion” is transforming the way organizations think about their technology stack and will determine which organizations can actually execute on AI and which are left drowning in endless streams of data.