Put events to work with Apache Kafka for Enterprise

IBM Event Streams is an event streaming platform built on open source Apache Kafka®. It is available both as a fully managed service on IBM Cloud or on-premise as part of Event Automation or as part of CP4I.  To deliver more engaging customer experiences, you need to accelerate your event-driven efforts so that you can act in real-time. With IBM® Event Streams, you can leverage enterprise-grade event streaming capabilities to build smart apps to help react to events as they happen. Based on years of operational expertise gained from running Apache Kafka® for enterprises, IBM Event Streams is ideal for mission-critical workloads.

Features

• **Fully managed service with native Kafka experience: **Leverage IBM Support for deep technical expertise whenever you need it. Event Streams offers a fully managed Apache Kafka service, ensuring durability, high availability and security and compliance so that you can focus on value added tasks like building applications.
• **Kafka made easy: **Use IBM productivity tools and the command line interface (CLI) to implement best practices. Create Event Streams instances and subsequent configuration by using Terraform. Work with all the standard Kafka APIs and clients on an Event Streams instance for a native Kafka experience. Additionally, Event Streams also provides 3 of its own APIs: Admin REST API, REST Producer API and Schema Registry API.
• **High availability and disaster recovery: **Event Streams is spread over 3 zones and is deployed in 10 multi-zone regions making it highly available. You can enable disaster recovery with rich security and geo-replication features. Take advantage of IBM productivity tools and use the command line interface (CLI) to implement best practices. You can also create your Event Streams instances and subsequent configuration by using Terraform.
• **Schema Registry: **Schema Registry provides a centralized repository for managing and validating schemas. The Event Streams Schema Registry stores a versioned history of schemas and supplies an interface for retrieving them.
• **Kafka Connect framework: **You can use Kafka Connect with Event Streams for IBM Cloud and can choose whether to run the workers inside or outside IBM Cloud. IBM provides a list of over 50 connectors that are supported by IBM or the community.

Benefits

• **Facilitate machine learning: **Use events to move from batch processing to real-time and predictive analytics using Event Streams for IBM Cloud.
• **Access years of Apache Kafka expertise: **Get support around the clock from our team of Kafka experts. Event Streams for IBM Cloud is a fully managed Apache Kafka service, ensuring durability and high availability.
• **Increase scalability: **Gain shared access to a multi-tenant cluster that seamlessly autoscales as you increase the number of partitions for your workload using the Standard plan. Alternatively, use the Enterprise plan’s scaling options to customize throughput, storage capacity, or both.
• **Secure by design: **Data is encrypted at rest and in motion. IBM Event Streams offers integration IBM® Key Protect provides and IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services services. You can also restrict your network access with context based restrictions and private networking.
• **Compliance: **Both the Standard and Enterprise plans of IBM Event Streams are HIPAA-ready and compliant with PCI-DSS, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISMAP, C5 and GDPR. The Enterprise plan includes managed security and compliance and is IBM Financial Services Validated.
• **Ensure high availability and durability: **The Standard and Enterprise plans provide a highly available architecture using multi-zone region deployment and an availability of 99.99%. Use Apache Mirror Maker 2 to increase availability and keep applications working in a major incident that affects a full region.