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Yugabyte Raises $48 Million Funding Round to Accelerate Distributed SQL Enterprise Adoption and Fuel Global Expansion

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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Coming on the heels of a $30 million capital raise announced in June 2020, the round brings Yugabytes total funding to $103 million.

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  • Coming on the heels of a $30 million capital raise announced in June 2020, the round brings Yugabytes total funding to $103 million.
  • To turbo-charge these efforts, it recently acquired India-based Falarica.io to accelerate its development and recruiting efforts in the APAC region.
  • This new round of funding will position Yugabyte to meet this increased enterprise demand and power our global expansion into key markets.
  • Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the open source, high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, internet-scale applications.

Redis Labs Announces General Availability for Integrated Enterprise Tiers of Azure Cache for Redis

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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Today at Microsoft Ignite , Redis Labs announced the general availability of Redis Enterprise-powered tiers on Azure Cache for Redis, enabling companies to more effectively optimize for low-latency data access in their most critical applications.

Key Points: 
  • Today at Microsoft Ignite , Redis Labs announced the general availability of Redis Enterprise-powered tiers on Azure Cache for Redis, enabling companies to more effectively optimize for low-latency data access in their most critical applications.
  • The combination of Redis Enterprise and Azure Cache for Redis enables companies to always have access to the latest enterprise-grade Redis functionality, expanded use cases, and enterprise-grade active geo-replication deployment architected for five-nine uptime.
  • The new Enterprise tiers can be consumed like any other Azure Cache tier offering using the customers existing Azure commit.
  • New Redis functionality in the Enterprise tiers include:
    - Up to 99.999% availability, leveraging Redis Enterprises active geo-replication technology and Azures multiple availability zone deployment capability
    - Flexibility to build modern applications leveraging Redis Enterprise modules, including RediSearch, RedisTimeSeries, and RedisBloom
    - Consumption-based pricingonly pay for whats required, with no minimum commitments
    We are extremely excited about the added functionality in the Azure Cache for Redis, Enterprise tiers.

AWS Launches Second Region in Japan

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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the launch of a second full region in Japan, the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region.

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  • Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the launch of a second full region in Japan, the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region.
  • AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners welcomed the arrival of a second AWS Region in Japan.
  • In March 2011, AWS launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region with two Availability Zones as the companys fifth AWS Region.
  • As a response to further customer demand for a standard region in western Japan, today AWS is extending the capability of the Osaka Local Region by expanding it into a standard AWS Region.

Orbis Technologies Awarded Large, Multi-Year Contract to Provide System Development Services to the US Government Publishing Office

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbis Technologies, Inc. , a global leader in Component Content Management Software (CCMS), services and solutions, announced this week that it has been awarded a large, multi-year contract to support the development of a world-class custom Component Content Management System for the US Government Publishing Office (GPO).

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  • ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbis Technologies, Inc. , a global leader in Component Content Management Software (CCMS), services and solutions, announced this week that it has been awarded a large, multi-year contract to support the development of a world-class custom Component Content Management System for the US Government Publishing Office (GPO).
  • The solution will leverage Orbis' unique experience in XML content management systems, our experience developing MarkLogic NoSQL database, and extensive experience in building semantic data platforms.
  • "Orbis Technologies is proud to support GPO and their XPub program.
  • Orbis specializes in advanced semantic driven component content management system (CCMS) platforms, solutions and services.

Google Cloud and MongoDB Expand Partnership With New Multi-Year Agreement To Help Customers Accelerate Application Modernization

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Customers get a single bill for all Google Cloud services as well as MongoDB Atlas, and can use their Google Cloud spending commitments toward Atlas.

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  • Customers get a single bill for all Google Cloud services as well as MongoDB Atlas, and can use their Google Cloud spending commitments toward Atlas.
  • With this expanded partnership, MongoDB is enabling developers to integrate Atlas with Google Cloud products, including Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Tensorflow.
  • Additionally, Google Cloud's mainframe modernization solutions now support MongoDB Atlas and help customers convert legacy COBOL code on mainframes into modern Java-based applications built on MongoDB.
  • "Google Cloud and MongoDB have a long-standing, open, and transparent partnership, focused on driving customer success across multiple industries with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud.

Couchbase Introduces Two New Certification Programs

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Santa Clara, Calif., Feb. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Couchbase , the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, announced the availability of the Couchbase Associate Architect Certification and Couchbase Professional Administrator Certification programs.

Key Points: 
  • Santa Clara, Calif., Feb. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Couchbase , the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, announced the availability of the Couchbase Associate Architect Certification and Couchbase Professional Administrator Certification programs.
  • These programs meet growing customer demands for certification while building on Couchbases ongoing commitment to offer extensive hands-on learning experiences, across different levels of expertise within the Couchbase Academy .
  • The Couchbase Academy provides three certification levels: Associate, Professional, and Expert, with new courses and certifications being added every quarter.
  • Couchbase, the Couchbase logo, and the names and marks associated with Couchbases products are trademarks of Couchbase, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

MongoDB, Inc. Announces Date of Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2021 Earnings Call

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Friday, February 19, 2021

In conjunction with this announcement, MongoDB will host a conference call on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) to discuss the Company's financial results and business outlook.

Key Points: 
  • In conjunction with this announcement, MongoDB will host a conference call on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) to discuss the Company's financial results and business outlook.
  • A live webcast of the call will be available on the "Investor Relations" page of the Company's website at http://investors.mongodb.com .
  • A replay of this conference call will be available for a limited time at 877-344-7529 (domestic) or 412-317-0088 (international) using conference ID 10152616.
  • The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded over 130 million times and there have been more than one million MongoDB University registrations.

Redis Labs Delivers Real-Time Query, Index, and Full-Text Search Engine with RediSearch 2.0

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Thursday, February 18, 2021

Redis Labs , the home of Redis, today announced the release of RediSearch 2.0 , which enables customers to build modern applications with interactive search experiences.

Key Points: 
  • Redis Labs , the home of Redis, today announced the release of RediSearch 2.0 , which enables customers to build modern applications with interactive search experiences.
  • RediSearch now allows them to unlock this data by creating secondary indexes to support their queriesinstead of writing manual indexes.
  • "As customers increasingly rely on Redis Enterprise as their real-time data platform, they want to dynamically query and search their data residing in Redis.
  • For additional details on RediSearch 2.0, read more on the Redis Labs blog or get started with the new RediSearch with this video tutorial .

Neo4j Continues Exceptional Growth in 2020, Bolstered by Customer Wins, Mainstream Adoption and Community Expansion

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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Neo4j saw impressive global customer retention and growth in 2020, with a base of almost 800 customers across numerous industries applying the company's technology to power their innovation and success.

Key Points: 
  • Neo4j saw impressive global customer retention and growth in 2020, with a base of almost 800 customers across numerous industries applying the company's technology to power their innovation and success.
  • Levi Strauss & Co ., Boston Scientific , and Dun & Bradstreet were among the customers that adopted Neo4j Aura Enterprise for friction-free graph database deployment .
  • Largest Transaction: Neo4j closed several of its largest enterprise customer transactions during 2020, many representing multi-million dollar upfront commitments.
  • Neo4j GraphAcademy : This year, Neo4j certified more than 2,100 developers across a broad range of course offerings, including graph data modeling, graph data science, and performance tuning.

YugabyteDB 2.4 Expands Distributed SQL Features to Support More Cloud Native Workloads

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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

The release of YugabyteDB 2.4 stabilizes the features and capabilities included in the YugabyteDB 2.3 development release.

Key Points: 
  • The release of YugabyteDB 2.4 stabilizes the features and capabilities included in the YugabyteDB 2.3 development release.
  • Yugabyte is building the distributed SQL database for the cloud-native world, said Karthik Ranganathan, CTO, Yugabyte.
  • The release of YugabyteDB 2.4 accelerates our mission of providing the distributed database of choice for multi-cloud environments.
  • Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the open source, high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, internet-scale applications.