No matter what industry you’re in, IT cost escalation is one of the top challenges faced by technical leaders today. When an organization relies on legacy databases, hidden costs can end up reducing efficiency, consuming too much of your IT budget, and derailing innovation, which ends up impacting organizational health as a whole. No one likes surprises when it comes to the cost of doing business. These are the three IT budget burdens that every executive needs to be on the lookout for:

Staff Engineer at EDB, Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek, knows community is everything when it comes to Postgres. Former PostgreSQL Europe Board member, advocate for women in tech, and recent podcast host, Gülçin shares her expertise at conferences and talks globally. At a recent Berlin Open Source meetup, she shared an innovative approach to extend Postgres into a vector database with pgvector to help make it easier for developers and engineers to accelerate their business.

AgTech companies create and use innovative technology and applications to help tackle the challenges facing global agriculture and food systems and achieve better outcomes. One international agricultural company in particular relies on high-volume applications to handle quality assurance of milk pasteurization and production processes. They also use applications to track delivery trucks and company personnel, manage invoicing and billing, and analyze logistics data to optimize delivery routing.

EDB is proud to announce our partnership with leading IT company UNIT to bring the power of Postgres to the Vietnamese market. This partnership will help accelerate Vietnam’s digital transformation, accelerating innovation and economic growth.

As the world’s first open-source Postgres operator designed for Kubernetes, CloudNativePG (CNPG) has experienced explosive growth within the Kubernetes community and customers since its launch in 2022. Now, in less than 2 years since its release, we’re celebrating a major industry milestone: CloudNativePG has officially earned 3,000 Github stars.

As a leading voice in the financial sector, FinTech magazine is well known for its in-depth reports and interviews with industry thought leaders. So here at EDB we were excited to be mentioned in the March edition of FinTech Magazine as part of an exclusive interview with Christopher Adjei-Ampofo, the CIO and CISO of Uphold. Christopher is one of Computing Magazine's Top 100 IT leaders in the UK, and he’s also a longtime EDB customer. EDB has been supporting Uphold's database needs since September 2020.

This International Women’s Day, EDB celebrates women around the globe, extending our profound admiration and respect to the inspiring figures who fuel our commitment to inclusion and empowerment. Every day, women across our organization demonstrate the strength and resilience required to break barriers and challenge the status quo.

EDB Senior Solutions Architect Boriss Mejías will be at pgDay Paris to give an insightful joining talk with Derk Van Veen, Database Specialist from Adyen. If you’re interested in learning more about the art of collaboration between developers and DBAs, you’ll want to be sure to attend their session titled "Collaboration between DEVs and DBAs - creating a contract for long-term partition maintenance in JSON”.

There are hundreds of cloud database management system vendors in the market, so we were honored and thrilled when Gartner recognized EDB– in their 2023 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems report. Companies get recognized in the Magic Quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. For us, this Gartner recognition is a huge win. Gartner delivers actionable, objective insight to executive and their teams.

Thanks for tuning in to EDB's audio blog series, The Builders, where business and tech thought leaders weigh in on top database industry trends and insights. In this episode, EDB Sales Engineer Lizzie Macneill explains how to unlock the future of streamlined efficiency with CloudNativePG. Listen to discover how this cutting-edge technology is driving innovation and resource efficiency for EDB customers and explore the user-friendly features that make CloudNativePG a game changer.