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Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced it has joined the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). Redpanda, running on Akamai Cloud, gives enterprises a globally distributed cloud-and-edge path to adopt Redpanda’s high-performance data streaming platform optimized for real-time, AI-driven applications in the regions where Akamai operates.

Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced that Jennifer Lawrence has been named the company’s new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In her new role, Lawrence oversees all go-to-market strategy, global revenue operations, and customer engagement initiatives to accelerate Redpanda’s continued growth and commercial impact.

Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced Shadowing, a new disaster recovery (DR) feature available in the upcoming Redpanda Streaming version 25.3. The capability provides an active–passive replication model that mirrors data from a primary cluster to a “shadow” cluster in a separate region, enabling rapid recovery and continuity in the event of regional cloud failures such as the recent AWS US-East-1 outage.

Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced the availability of the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) — a new suite for safely and scalably connecting AI Agents across the growing digital workforce. Redpanda ADP provides a reliable data access layer to build AI Agents with complete traceability, observability, and governance for enterprise environments.

Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is using Redpanda to power NYSE Cloud Streaming. The new NYSE offering delivers data with sub-hundreds of milliseconds latency, providing market insights for customers to make smarter decisions. Operating seven exchanges, the NYSE Group trades on average over 2.5 billion shares and processes more than 500 billion messages each day.

Redpanda, the real-time data platform that powers agentic and operational applications, today announced Redpanda 25.2, which simplifies Iceberg adoption for enterprise users. The latest update also includes support for Databricks Unity Catalog, allowing enterprise customers to turn streaming event data into queryable Iceberg tables in Databricks with unprecedented ease and control.

Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced the appointment of Tyler Akidau as chief technology officer (CTO). Tyler brings more than 20 years of experience as a data streaming architect, serving for several years as distinguished software engineer at Snowflake, following a dozen years at Google. He will report to CEO Alex Gallego and oversee all aspects of product development.

Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced general availability of Apache Iceberg Topics, which enables organizations to query streaming data as Iceberg tables without having to create ETL/ELT pipelines. Redpanda is the first company to offer this functionality in a “Bring Your Own Cloud” (BYOC) environment and for all three major cloud providers - AWS, GCP, and Azure. Apache Iceberg Topics is a critical component of Redpanda’s recently announced agentic AI service for the enterprise as it allows businesses to seamlessly blend real-time operational insights with historical data, all within their existing data lakehouse environments.

Redpanda today announced it has closed $100M in Series D funding led by GV, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners. With this latest investment, Redpanda is now valued at $1 billion, with a total of $265 million raised. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s growth and expand the capabilities of its real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, which was also announced today.

Redpanda, the unified streaming data platform, announced a new Snowflake connector based on Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming, which is able to ingest data 2x faster than Snowflake Connector for Kafka — one of the options available to move streaming data from Kafka into Snowflake. The new connector is now available within Redpanda Connect and on all major cloud providers: AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure.

Redpanda, the all-in-one streaming data platform, today kicked off its first annual Redpanda Streamfest conference, bringing thousands of developers, data engineers, and data architects together for five hours of technical sessions, live demos, and a hands-on workshop to help attendees optimize real-time applications, analytics and AI use cases using streaming data.

Redpanda, the all-in-one streaming data platform, announced new bolstered AI integrations available within Redpanda Connect. It now offers more than 100 cloud-based managed connectors and stream processors, including connectors for AI services like OpenAI, Vertex AI, and AWS Bedrock, a Sovereign AI connector for Ollama, and connectors for vector databases like Pinecone and Qdrant. Redpanda Connect also now offers GPU clusters on GCP for high-performance AI workloads. The new AI connectors are available on all major cloud providers: AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure.

Redpanda, the unified streaming data platform, today announced the integration of its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) service with Microsoft Azure, expanding its multi-cloud offerings for delivering mission-critical data. This limited availability release responds to growing user demand for flexible data infrastructure options. Azure support is initially available in six key regions: centralus (Iowa), eastus (Virginia), eastus2 (Virginia), norwayeast (Oslo), uksouth (London), and ukwest (Cardiff), with future expansion planned for additional regions.

Streaming data leader Redpanda today announced its inclusion in the annual Redpoint InfraRed 100 report. Compiled by Redpoint Ventures, this prestigious report highlights the 100 most notable up-and-coming private companies in cloud infrastructure, showcasing the future leaders set to revolutionize the market.

Streaming data pioneer Redpanda today announced its acquisition of London-based Benthos, the popular open-source stream processing platform that enables enterprises to move, integrate, and perform transformations on streams of data flowing between systems and data sources. The acquisition completes Redpanda as a unified, end-to-end streaming data platform built close to the hardware to be more performant, simpler to deploy and easier to operate, with greater enterprise reliability versus the combination of Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect.

Streaming data pioneer Redpanda today announced the release of Redpanda 24.1, a powerful update that provides users more options for optimizing performance, extends inline processing capabilities and ensures the predictability and security of their systems. With a flexible write caching option, Redpanda 24.1 significantly improves performance on a wider variety of hardware and storage infrastructure. The release also includes new ways to balance cluster resources, role-based access control, and the general availability of Redpanda's data transformation capabilities.

Redpanda, the streaming data pioneer, today announced that ShareChat, India’s largest social media company, achieved a 70% reduction in cloud infrastructure costs with the help of Redpanda’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment option. By leveraging BYOC, ShareChat maintained data sovereignty while achieving a much more efficient data architecture, saving the organization significant time and resources.

At Kafka Summit London, Redpanda announced the availability of Redpanda Serverless, a fully managed, pay-as-you-go edition of its powerful, cost-effective streaming data platform. Redpanda Serverless empowers developers to get started with streaming data in seconds and to automatically scale the service up or down to match their data workloads. As with all Redpanda products, Redpanda Serverless is fully Apache Kafka® API-compatible, ensuring it works with the complete Kafka ecosystem without requiring changes to application code.

Redpanda, the streaming data pioneer, today announced record results for its 2024 fiscal year. Buoyed by the winning combination of simplicity, scale and cost savings when compared to legacy Apache Kafka and messaging queues, Redpanda increased revenue by 300% year over year, grew its customer base by 179% and raised $100 million in Series C funding, led by Lightspeed Ventures, in a down market.

Redpanda announced the winners of its first annual user awards, which recognize innovation and excellence in building data-intensive applications and systems based on streaming data. Winners in five categories were announced at Redpanda’s Open House user conference.

Today at its Redpanda Open House conference, streaming data pioneer Redpanda launched the general availability of its Redpanda Cloud managed service. Redpanda Cloud delivers 10x faster tail latencies than other streaming data platforms and easily scales to tens of gigabytes per second. Complete with developer tools, connectors and SOC 2 Type 1 certification necessary to run mission-critical Kafka workloads at scale, Redpanda Cloud also comes with an innovative cloud-first storage capability that significantly reduces data storage costs.