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Ingenico Financial Solutions, an e-Money provider, sought a robust, high-availability database solution and flexible support for its fast-growing business. Already using MariaDB, they faced downtime issues and needed a scalable partner. MariaDB provided a comprehensive solution, including a health check, infrastructure validation, performance optimizations, and assistance in setting up MariaDB Galera Cluster for high availability. This partnership resulted in a secure, scalable, and reliable database environment, ensuring business continuity and supporting Ingenico's growth.

Greetz, an online greeting card service, faced high costs and management complexity with their Oracle RAC database. Seeking a more affordable, highly available, and performant solution for their e-commerce platform, they partnered with MariaDB. The migration to MariaDB Enterprise Server with Galera Cluster resulted in a faster, more stable online store and significantly reduced Total Cost of Ownership by eliminating expensive licensing and SAN storage. MariaDB now provides a reliable and scalable foundation for Greetz's critical operations.

The MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator simplifies managing MariaDB Enterprise Platform on Kubernetes. Acting as an embedded DBA, it leverages Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to automate deployment and operation of complex MariaDB topologies, including high-availability Galera clusters and MaxScale setups, using simple YAML files. Key features include effortless deployment, seamless rolling upgrades with minimal downtime, automated backups and recovery, and enhanced security. This operator enables advanced high availability with Galera and integrated load balancing with MaxScale, unlocking enterprise-grade features. Certified for Red Hat OpenShift, it reduces operational complexity, ensures data availability and security, and is available with a MariaDB Enterprise Platform Plus subscription.

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™

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.

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.

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.

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