Perforce Offers Enterprises a Supported, Cost-Effective Alternative to Proprietary Kafka Platforms

The new offering provides expert-backed services, security guidance, and tuning support to help organizations confidently and efficiently run Kafka at scale without vendor lock-in.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams seeking AI innovation at scale, today announced the launch of the Kafka Service Bundle, a new offering that provides enterprises with managed open source Apache Kafka at a fraction of the cost of traditional managed providers.

More than 80% of the Fortune 100 rely on Kafka for their streaming data pipelines. The distributed event streaming platform, which can process and store large volumes of data and deliver real-time analytics, is widely used across industries including banking, healthcare, and retail. The Kafka Service Bundle helps organizations seamlessly shift from proprietary Kafka platforms to customized, open source Kafka implementations — allowing them to leverage the power, reliability, and scalability of Kafka while significantly reducing operational expenses.

"Kafka is a notoriously complex technology that demands a high level of expertise, but organizations are struggling to pay the premiums charged by managed Kafka providers. They need a more cost-efficient way to securely scale their data infrastructure — and tailor it to meet their needs," said Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Principal Product Manager at Perforce OpenLogic. "With the Kafka Service Bundle, we're enabling teams to keep their Kafka environments running smoothly — without getting locked in to an out-of-the-box solution."

With economic headwinds forcing many enterprises to find creative ways to cut IT infrastructure costs, there is an emerging trend of companies pursuing free open source options — especially in cases where the open source alternative matches a commercial solution in functionality, reliability, and performance. That trend was apparent in a recent survey from Perforce, where they reported a 43% year-over- year increase in organizations choosing open source due to cost-savings.

"A global digital media company was struggling to deliver real-time consumer insights to their retail clients at the point of sale due to a brittle Kafka implementation. We helped them build a more resilient, efficient data pipeline by tuning their clusters and modernizing their monitoring strategy," said Chelsea Teplitzky, Managing Director at Perforce Software. "That's exactly the kind of real-world impact we're aiming to deliver with the Kafka Service Bundle — giving enterprises the expert support they need to achieve their business goals with open source."

The Kafka Service Bundle is available now. To learn more, visit the OpenLogic website, or register for the webinar on May 15.

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