Today, we announced our Fall 2026 product edition, which includes a wide range of new capabilities in the Solace Platform. I’m proud of the critical innovations we are shipping and the impact they will have for our customers.
A key highlight of this announcement is the addition of an Apache Kafka API-compatible service to Solace Platform that is based on a modern diskless, brokerless architecture. In addition to providing easier and lower cost operations for many Kafka workloads, it provides a new piece of the protocol puzzle that joins our existing Kafka micro-integrations and allows customers to connect everything and operate in real time: one platform, every pattern, every protocol.
“AgenticAI has moved from experiment to operational dependency, and it has quietly rewritten the enterprise’s requirements for how fast data must move. To meet this, leaders consolidate onto unified integrated platforms while a majority juggle many loosely connected tools they admit need fixing.”
Source: 2026 State of Real-Time Data
Behind this capability is our acquisition of the assets of Nisshi.io, an open-source (Apache 2.0) diskless streaming technology that is Apache Kafka® API compatible.
Nisshi’s creator, Peter Morgan, has joined Solace to lead the engineering team to accelerate the open-source project and deliver an enterprise SaaS version, to be announced later. In this video, he discusses the future of Nisshi with Mark Spielman, our senior vice president of product:
Market Needs for Real-Time Data have Changed to Support Agentic Transformations
In addition to demands for real-time data, agentic systems are pulling application integration and data integration together. Our customers need both, and increasingly they need them to work as one.
That is exactly where many of them get stuck. They run Solace Event Brokers for speed and fine-grained routing, and Kafka for logs, telemetry and replay. The result is two platforms and a constant debate over where each use case belongs. With Nisshi, customers will be able to implement the right solution to meet their use-case under common monitoring, security, and governance.
This is consistent with Solace’s strategy to continually push innovation in real-time data movement. We’ve always taken open-protocol support seriously with SMF, MQTT, AMQP, Websockets, REST, JMS (and more) and we’ve been contributors to the AMQP1.0 and MQTT3.1.1 and 5.0 standards. Now we support the Kafka API directly rather than integrating Kafka brokers at the edge.
The use of Nisshi technology is also targeted at helping enterprise customers do more by significantly reducing the operational cost of deploying and managing Kafka.
Kafka’s disk-based design means paying for replicated disks, cross-AZ traffic and unused headroom, then paying again for the people who tune and rebalance clusters. Nisshi’ was built to greatly reduce that burden.
How Nisshi Benefits the Enterprise
Nisshi takes a simpler approach to streaming. With the disks and stateful brokers out of the picture, there is far less infrastructure to run, tune and pay for. This frees your teams to spend their time on the business instead of looking after clusters. Your data lives in shared storage, in any cloud or on premises, to deliver lower costs and not tie you to a single provider.
That simplicity carries through to how you grow. Capacity scales up and down as demand changes, so you pay for what you use rather than for peak headroom; and your data is ready for analytics and AI without extra pipelines to build and maintain.
And Nisshi does not ask you to start over. Your existing Kafka applications move without changes, which protects the investment you have already made and gets you to value faster. While all diskless architectures introduce a minor latency overhead, it rarely crosses critical thresholds for most workloads while remaining vastly superior to batch processing. Combined with the broader Solace Platform, overall performance stays right where you, and your applications, need it.
Where Solace is Taking Nisshi
Nisshi is Apache 2.0 licensed and we plan to offer a supported enterprise version integrated into Solace Platform, under the same governance, security and observability as the rest of your real-time estate. It is in development and not yet generally available; we are working with early adopters now.
What changes is how much of your real-time estate The Solace Platform can serve and how much easier this makes it for your organization to be successful with real-time data streaming. Streaming in a world that is being re-defined by agentic systems requirements and the convergence of data and applications.
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Denis King is Solace’s president and chief executive officer. After kicking off his career with Celestica, which was acquired by IBM, and Newbridge Networks, which was acquired by Alcatel, Denis joined Solace when it was a startup to help build the ground-breaking technology that introduced event-driven architecture to the financial services and telecommunications industries.
Since that time, Denis has been instrumental in leading the proliferation of EDA across industries and spurring Solace’s success, having held successive leadership positions as the company’s VP of systems engineering, SVP of global field operations, chief product officer and chief operating officer. Denis earned a bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick.
Denis is a member of the Forbes Tech Council, where he shares his expertise on real-time computing, digital transformation and event-driven architecture.
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