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Samsung SDS, a Samsung subsidiary, needed to modernize its Knox Portal, an internal collaboration platform with almost half a million users, by moving to a microservices architecture and open-source software. Facing high operating costs with Oracle, they migrated over 80% of their databases for this critical application to MariaDB Enterprise Server. This transition achieved zero-downtime upgrades, global real-time data synchronization, and a more than 50% reduction in operating costs, ensuring service continuity and stability for 80 Samsung affiliates worldwide. MariaDB's transparency and performance proved to be a cost-effective choice, enhancing developer and DBA capabilities.

Visma Proceedo, a critical purchase-to-pay cloud solution in the Nordic region serving nearly a million users and processing 12 million invoices yearly with over 20TB of data, faced limitations and rising costs with its legacy proprietary database. After a two-year migration project, Visma successfully transitioned to MariaDB Enterprise Server. This move significantly improved average response times from 1.5-2 seconds to under 700 milliseconds and achieved roughly 10% annual savings in license and support costs. MariaDB's support and proactive improvement proposals also exceeded expectations.

DBS Bank, Southeast Asia's largest bank, sought to modernize its technology and reduce reliance on costly proprietary database solutions. They successfully migrated over 30 mission-critical applications, including corporate banking and payment engines, to MariaDB. This strategic move delivered 30 to 70 percent cost savings, enhanced flexibility, enabled real-time data streaming via MaxScale, and provided comprehensive monitoring with Monyog, all while ensuring compliance with strict financial regulations. DBS now champions open-source technology, sharing its success with MariaDB in the financial industry.

sade Ramon Llull University, a top business school, sought a robust database solution to support their critical eLearning platform, Moodle, and its 7,000 students and 1,000 daily concurrent users. Facing poor performance and low availability with MySQL community edition, they chose MariaDB Enterprise Server with Galera Cluster for its high query speed, robust clustering, and comprehensive support, drastically improving Moodle's performance and student experience.

Since 2016, Lou Hill—a security engineer and founder of Cloudbunker—has trusted Bitwarden for secure password management. What began as a personal solution quickly scaled to power his IT consulting firm and its clients. From internal operations to managed service offerings, Bitwarden helps Cloudbunker enforce strong security, streamline access, and eliminate poor password practices. Now preparing to onboard 200 more users, Hill credits Bitwarden as a future-proof solution for secure, scalable growth.

Explore why SBOM was the biggest topic at KubeCon 2025. Learn how Anchore Syft and CycloneDX/SPDX standards are redefining Kubernetes software supply chain security.

As software supply chain security becomes a top priority, organizations are turning to Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation and analysis to gain visibility into the composition of their software and supply chain dependencies in order to reduce risk.

With a perfect 5 out of 5 score for Support Experience, Sysdig becomes the only company to achieve top customer ratings for both CNAPP and CSPM by Gartner Peer Insights™

At AWS re:Invent, AWS and GitLab, announced an integrated offering that brings together GitLab Duo with Amazon Q. Together, GitLab Duo and Amazon Q provide a seamless AI-powered developer experience that combines DevSecOps workflows with Amazon Q autonomous agents to help organizations deliver secure software faster.

Bill Staples has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a member of the board of directors, succeeding co-founder Sid Sijbrandij.

Lens Control Central allows enterprises to centralize and manage their security needs for large deployments.

Edward Ionel talks about how Mirantis Lens unifies Dev & Ops around Kubernetes workflows. With unique features, a wide user base, and great flexibility, Lens is sure to ease your Kubernetes operations.