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Blackhawk Network transformed its cloud cost management by partnering with PointFive. With the Analytics module and Opportunities engine, BHN unified reporting, uncovered hidden inefficiencies, and empowered engineers with actionable insights. The result? Improved visibility, reduced costs, and a culture of ownership and proactive optimization across engineering teams.

Discover how Krumware, a leader in platform engineering, slashed cloud spend by an astonishing 80% and boosted operational efficiency by embracing Civo's simple, reliable, and cost-effective managed Kubernetes services, enabling their teams to focus on innovation instead of infrastructure complexities.

Discover how Codezero, a development innovation leader, revolutionized its workflow and boosted developer productivity by leveraging Civo Kubernetes. Learn how they slashed cluster setup times from hours to minutes, enabling every engineer to develop against live Kubernetes, treating environments as "disposable objects" with unparalleled support.

Discover how Cloud Builders empowered their clients to slash cloud ownership costs by nearly 50% and dramatically simplify operations by leveraging Civo's cost-effective Kubernetes, Marketplace, and unparalleled expert support.

Discover how Trax, a leader in retail technology, leveraged PerfectScale to overcome manual Kubernetes optimization roadblocks, achieving an astounding 75% cost reduction in one cluster (saving over 6-figures annually) and significantly improving their "cost per processing" metric by gaining granular visibility and actionable insights across their multi-cloud, multi-cluster AWS EKS environment.

Discover how fintech leader Rapyd partnered with PerfectScale to close observability gaps in their Kubernetes environment, achieving a projected 35-40% reduction in K8s costs while simultaneously improving performance and proactively resolving critical issues across their extensive AWS EKS infrastructure.

Discover how cybersecurity leader Cynet, with a focus on simplicity, leveraged PerfectScale to gain unprecedented visibility into pod costs, streamline Kubernetes cost optimization, and proactively identify and resolve resiliency issues across their multi-cluster AWS EKS environment, ensuring a stable and cost-effective solution for their customers.

Discover how Riftweaver, an innovative gaming studio with a one-person DevOps team, leveraged PerfectScale to reduce CPU throttling by nearly 59% in critical APIs, improve user experience, and enable efficient scaling of their AWS EKS Kubernetes environment, even on a free plan.

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.

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.

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.

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.