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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.

Modernise ERP with AI-driven agents, cloud-grade reliability, and partner-led adoption via SAP’s new program on Microsoft Cloud.

CloudQuery announces its new AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) integration—empowering engineering teams to analyze and optimize cloud spend directly from infrastructure data. Learn how to gain cost visibility, allocate budgets by tags or teams, and uncover hidden cloud expenses with powerful queries and dashboards.

Worried about Docker Hub rate limits? Discover how JFrog’s universal artifact manager and container registry ensures uninterrupted Docker usage by proxy caching, enabling authentication, and providing unlimited public Docker Hub downloads via JFrog SaaS, helping you scale seamlessly.

Explore Kubernetes at scale with Kubermatic CEO Sebastian Scheele — platform engineering, AI integration, developer self-service, and open-source demo.

Discover how financial institutions modernize for AI with Sarah Polan, covering DORA compliance, AI challenges, leadership, and scalable infrastructure transformation.

Deploying to air-gapped Kubernetes clusters is complex and error-prone. Devtron’s Software Distribution Hub simplifies this by automating Helm chart delivery, using private registries and a Release Operator to securely manage and monitor deployments in air gapped enviornments.

Managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments across clouds and data centers introduces complexity, security gaps, and observability challenges. This article explores how Calico Cluster Mesh provides seamless inter-cluster connectivity, fine-grained security policies, intelligent traffic management, and unified observability—empowering teams to build scalable, secure, and efficient Kubernetes architectures. Learn how companies like Box leverage Calico to enforce zero-trust security and simplify multi-cluster operations.

Explore how AI transforms application and API security as Secure Blink co-founder Sonal Khanna discusses THREATSPY, developer-first security, reachability prioritization, recognition, and future-ready API teams.

Permit.io CEO Or Weis introduces just-in-time permissions and ReBAC, showing how Agent Security enables safer, smarter AI agents.

Secure Kubernetes east–west traffic with service mesh zero trust: mTLS, JWTs, fine-grained API policies, WASM controls, and deep telemetry for detection and response.

Secure Kubernetes networking with TLS encryption. Importance of networking security and a step-by-step guide to implement TLS encryption for your cluster.