Today, IBM (IBM) has completed the acquisition of Confluent , Inc., the data streaming platform that more than 6,500 enterprises, including 40% of the Fortune 500, rely on to power real-time operations.
Together, they will deliver a smart data platform providing every AI model, agent, and automated workflow with the real-time and trusted data to operate across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments at scale.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA on Monday to help enterprises scale artificial intelligence operations, according to a press release statement. The $234 billion technology company, a prominent player in the IT Services industry, continues to strengthen its AI capabilities through strategic partnerships.
The partnership focuses on GPU-native data analytics, document processing, infrastructure deployments, and consulting services. The collaboration addresses challenges enterprises face in moving AI from experimental stages to production, including fragmented data, inadequate infrastructure, and compliance requirements.
IBM and NVIDIA are integrating IBM watsonx.data’s SQL engine Presto with NVIDIA cuDF to accelerate query execution on large datasets. The companies tested the technology on Nestlé’s Order-to-Cash data mart, which processes terabytes of data across 44 tables covering 186 countries. Nestlé reported query runtime decreased from 15 minutes to three minutes, achieving 83% cost savings and a 30X price-performance improvement.
"Working with IBM and NVIDIA, a targeted proof of concept has demonstrated the ability to refresh global operations data in a few minutes and at reduced cost," said Chris Wright, Chief Information and Digital Officer of Nestlé.
The partnership includes Docling from IBM and NVIDIA Nemotron open models for document extraction and standardization. NVIDIA selected IBM Storage Scale System 6000 to provide 10PB of high-performance storage for its GPU-native analytics engines.
IBM plans to offer NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs on IBM Cloud in early Q2 2026 for large-scale training and inferencing. The technology will be integrated across Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA and VPC servers.
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