Kafka reinvented to be cheaper than free. Don’t believe us? Take the challenge.

Apache Kafka® has become the foundation of the modern data stack and is used by over 70% of the Fortune 500 to modernize their data architectures and build real-time, event-driven applications.

But the open-source project alone doesn’t offer everything you need out-of-the-box to reach production quickly, safely, and securely. Connectors need to be developed, security features custom-built, disaster recovery and failover processes designed – the list goes on. And even after all that development work, the ongoing operational burden of managing Kafka only becomes costlier and riskier as it scales.

What does this all mean for your business? Higher total cost of ownership, delayed project timelines, and increased risk for you to bear on your mission-critical data streaming projects – all in a challenging economy where teams everywhere are being asked to “do more with less.”

To remedy this, Confluent offers a truly cloud-native Kafka experience with a complete set of enterprise-grade features, available everywhere your data resides. Confluent can help:

• Reduce infrastructure spend by automatically scaling to meet demand without overprovisioning, decoupling storage and compute, and mitigating performance degradation
• Minimize Kafka development and operational costs by freeing your team from low-level infrastructure management, and refocusing them towards more strategic projects that differentiate your business
• Prevent unplanned downtime or breaches to avoid revenue and data loss, reduced customer satisfaction, reputational damage, audits / fines, and more

Interested in learning more? We invite you to meet with one of our Kafka experts to help you understand all the hidden costs of self-managing Kafka on your own. We’re confident we’ll be able to save you 30% or more on your Kafka-related costs. Download our white paper, and a member of our team will be in touch.