Ashnik, a leading technology consultancy in Southeast Asia, was appointed by one of Singapore’s top insurance companies to help it through a digital transformation initiative that would see it migrate an existing application to a modern platform.

Postgres Sees a Sharp Rise in Popularity with Developers For a long time now, PostgreSQL has been one of the most frequently deployed relational database management systems. Over the past few years, however, it has seen a sharp rise in popularity with developers. According to DB-Engines, PostgreSQL (or Postgres) was ranked the fourth most popular database management system in April 2019, as scored...

EDB experts will be speaking this month at industry events in the U.S., Poland, Austria, and Canada about how the popular open source Postgres database management system can be used by enterprises to manage their vital data most effectively and securely with predictable cost and no lock-in.

A security discussion centered around auditing users and roles in PostgreSQL.

In the days of cloud computing and agile development, it might seem that being a DBA is somewhat less appealing as a career choice. However, the role of DBA is changing; it is not going away. In fact, it is becoming even more important. That said, if DBAs are to explain their value to the rest of the business, they must be seen as more than the company’s data librarians.

Open Source Databases Powering Apps and Business Critical Systems Today, an open source databases can compete effectively against leading proprietary database products for most enterprise workloads. And, enterprises large and small are adopting open source databases to power more of their applications and business critical systems. In fact, in Gartner’s "State of the Open-Source DBMS Market, 2018"...

A leading financial services institution in the Nordics faced a host of decisions for a major digital transformation initiative. With more than 10,000 employees working in over 20 countries to provide banking services to private and corporate customers, the company needed to respond quickly to customer requirements with new financial products.

Exploring Container Technology and Container Orchestration Today it is safe to say that containers and container orchestration have left the hype phase and are now a mainstream cloud-native technology. The container growth trends are compelling: According to a survey of 600+ IT decision-makers, conducted in mid-July 2018 by ClearPath Strategies for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, 30% of enterprises...

Infosys Finacle, a part of Infosys’ product subsidiary EdgeVerve Systems, today named EnterpriseDB their “Open Source DB Partner of the Year”. This recognition was received at Partner Meet 2019, the Infosys Finacle annual partner event, held in the city of Mysore in India's southwestern Karnataka state. The Finacle Core Banking Solution is a suite of integrated banking solutions used by banks...

The use cases of a highly available database may vary between a financial services organization or a telecommunications provider, but the desired result is the same: an incredibly reliable database that minimizes downtime. Organizations often strive for availability down to the decimal point as a percentage of uptime in a given year, such as four nines (99.99 percent availability). Every second of...