Consulting Services for Apache Kafka

Acosom is a Swiss big data consulting and data strategy consulting company that helps regulated enterprises design, build, and operate modern data platforms, real-time analytics, and private AI systems end-to-end. Unlike typical data consulting companies, our engineers design your architecture and then operate it in production. What we do: Big Data Consulting & Data Strategy Consulting: platform architecture, modernization, governance, and execution for enterprises at any scale. Stream Processing & Streaming Data Platform Engineering: production-grade streaming data platforms on Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Kubernetes, covering stream processing vs batch processing trade-offs and modern streaming data technologies. Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, and ClickHouse consulting: from evaluation through production tuning and long-term operations. Big Data Support & Maintenance: 24/7 incident response, no-downtime upgrades, and SLA-backed operations for Flink, Kafka, and ClickHouse clusters. Private LLM & RAG Pipelines: on-premises LLM deployment, GPU sizing, vLLM and TensorRT-LLM serving, and real-time RAG on live streaming data. Event-Driven Agentic AI and AI Agents for Business: governed AI agents that act on live events via Model Context Protocol servers. AI Governance, Data Governance & AI Compliance: runtime-enforced AI governance aligned with leading AI governance frameworks (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) plus FINMA, BaFin, GDPR, and DORA, backed by AI risk management as a continuous capability. Data Lakehouse Architecture & Enterprise Data Platforms: data lakehouse vs data warehouse design, open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Apache Paimon), real-time analytics, and sovereign storage. Cloud Cost Optimization & Cloud Repatriation: evaluating cloud cost optimization tools and moving data workloads off expensive managed cloud services. Industries we serve: banking analytics and real-time fraud detection, insurance analytics and insurance data analytics, healthcare analytics and clinical analytics, manufacturing analytics and industrial IoT, utility data analytics, and supply chain analytics for transport and logistics. Technologies: Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, ClickHouse, Apache Iceberg, Apache Paimon, Kubernetes, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, open-weight LLMs (Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, Mistral), and more. Why Acosom: a senior-only Swiss engineering team. Vendor-neutral, open-source first, execution-oriented. The engineers who design your architecture also implement and operate it in production. No junior dilution. No strategy-only decks.

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NetApp® Instaclustr is an fully managed platform for open source data infrastructure that provides services and support for organizations requiring scalable, reliable, and secure data solutions. Instaclustr operates as a managed service provider that deploys, operates, and optimizes open source data infrastructure across major cloud platforms and on-premises environments. Instaclustr is designed for IT operations teams, engineering managers, DevOps professionals, platform engineers, and business leaders who need to run mission-critical applications with high availability, performance, and compliance requirements. The platform supports a range of open source technologies, including Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Kafka® Connect, PostgreSQL®, ClickHouse®, OpenSearch®, and Cadence®. Typical use cases for Instaclustr include powering web-scale applications, enabling real-time data streaming, supporting analytics and search workloads, and orchestrating complex workflows. Instaclustr helps organizations overcome the challenges of managing open source data infrastructure, such as augmenting in-house teams, integration complexity, operational risk, and the need for 24x7 support. Instaclustr’s platform offers multiple deployment models, including managed clusters in Instaclustr’s cloud account, customer-owned cloud accounts, on-premises data centers, and hybrid environments. The platform is backed by a global team of experts providing enterprise support, consulting, and training services throughout the full lifecycle of the technologies offered. Key features and value propositions include: - Instaclustr provides end-to-end management for open source data technologies, including provisioning, monitoring, scaling, patching, backups, and incident response. - Customers can deploy data infrastructure on their preferred cloud provider or on-premises, with support for hybrid and migration scenarios. - Instaclustr’s global support team delivers 24x7x365 operations, backed by industry-leading service level agreements for availability, latency, and response times. - The platform includes security and compliance certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA, helping organizations meet regulatory requirements. - Instaclustr offers true open source solutions, avoiding vendor lock-in and proprietary licensing, and actively contributes to the open source community. Instaclustr is suitable for organizations seeking to accelerate time to value, reduce operational costs, and improve reliability when using and adopting open source data technologies. By outsourcing the complexity of data infrastructure management, customers can focus on innovation and business growth while leveraging the latest advancements in open source software.

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