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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.