NetApp and Elastio Announce Partnership to Deliver Defense-in-Depth Ransomware Resilience

 SAN JOSE, Calif. & SAN FRANCISCO -Robust cyber resilience requires both perimeter defenses and built-in security at the storage layer

(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, and Elastio are helping enterprises enhance their cyber resilience with a layered defense that extends from production storage into recovery data. Security teams must be ready to address threats at every layer of their technology stack, including ransomware that moved quietly through production before it was caught that now lives inside snapshots and backups. Advanced ransomware is engineered to evade prevention tools, moving quietly through production, staying below detection thresholds, reaching backup data before any alert is triggered.

"As we migrated our infrastructure, ensuring we had the right level of backup security and assurance was non-negotiable,” Marc Crudgington, VP IT Infrastructure and CISO, Crane WW Logistics. “Elastio provided continuous inspection of our backups from day one - giving us confidence in our ability to recover. That’s the standard we hold ourselves to."

The companies are embedding Elastio’s Provable Recovery Control into the NetApp Ransomware Resilience Service as “Powered by Elastio,” adding Deep File Inspection of snapshots. Together, the service delivers end-to-end resilience from ransomware detection through recovery – using recovery points that are continuously verified as clean.

"Storage needs to be part of the conversation when defining a holistic cyber security strategy,” Gagan Gulati, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data Services. NetApp. “By protecting data where it lives, we make storage a priority to combat cyber threats like ransomware. But the stakes for business resilience and operational continuity are too high to rely on a single layer of defense. By collaborating with Elastio, we’re giving enterprises another tool to protect their most critical asset: data.”

A New Layer of Defense Inside the NetApp Ransomware Resilience Service

NetApp Ransomware Resilience Service: Detects and contains ransomware at the data layer in real time, takes immutable snapshots, guides recovery, and continuously assesses ransomware posture across ONTAP® environments. Includes behavioral detection via Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP).

Elastio Provable Recovery Control: Deep File Inspection of ONTAP snapshots, detecting zero-day ransomware, staged malware, and stealth corruption that evaded perimeter controls. No agents and continuously identify the last known clean recovery points.

Through this collaboration, both companies are enhancing cyber resilience for customers by embedding Elastio Provable Recovery Control directly into the NetApp Ransomware Resilience Service with no separate procurement and no architecture changes.

"Most organizations discover their recovery data is compromised at the worst possible moment: during an active incident,” Naj Husain, CEO, Elastio. “By then the question of whether backups are clean is no longer theoretical. The joint solution answers that question continuously, before the incident forces it."

Availability

The NetApp Ransomware Resilience Service powered by Elastio is planned for availability in the near future. Enterprise organizations interested in early access should contact their NetApp or Elastio representative to assess their current recovery posture.

About NetApp

For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.

At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.

Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.

With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.

Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

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About Elastio

Elastio delivers Active Cyber Resilience, a security philosophy built on one principle: recovery must be continuously proven and not periodically tested or assumed. The Elastio Hunt Engine performs Deep File Inspection across live data, replicated data, and backups to detect ransomware and malware that has evaded prevention and detection tools. Recovery you can prove.

 

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The Estée Lauder Companies’ Statement on Potential Transaction with Puig

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(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) confirms that it is in discussions regarding a potential business combination with Puig, in which the two companies would potentially merge their businesses. No final decision has been made, and no agreement has been reached. Unless and until an agreement is signed between the companies, there can be no assurances regarding the deal or its terms.

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Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, the possibility that no agreement will be reached, that required regulatory approvals may not be obtained, or that other conditions to a potential transaction may not be satisfied.

There can be no assurance that any transaction will be consummated or, if consummated, as to its timing or terms. The Estée Lauder Companies undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

About The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

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CSC Named Winner of the Global InfoSec Award for Cutting-Edge Certificate Lifecycle Management

  WILMINGTON, Del. - Tuesday, 24. March 2026 AETOSWire 

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- CSC, an enterprise-class domain security provider and world leader in domain management, DNS, digital certificate management, brand protection, and anti-fraud solutions, is proud to announce its selection as a Cutting-Edge Certificate Lifecycle Management award winner in the 2026 Global InfoSec Awards.

“This award from Cyber Defense Magazine is a testament to CSC’s innovation in digital certificate lifecycle management. With the continually evolving requirements around certificate lifecycles and domain control validation (DCV), we saw a need for a proactive solution to help clients when WHOIS emails were deprecated for domain control validation, and companies could no longer employ non-technical means to prove domain ownership. We were the first to offer Domain Control Validation as a Service (DCVaaS) to automate repetitive validation processes so our clients can stay agile, secure, and compliant without the operational burden. CSC is also delivering a solution that not only meets today's demands but also anticipates tomorrow's challenges, while letting our clients focus on their core business with confidence,” said Mark Flegg, senior director of technology, CSC Security Products and Services.

CSC’s DCVaaS is a unique solution designed to simplify and expedite SSL/TLS certificate validation with a set-and-forget model for its clients. It eliminates the need for technical and repetitive domain validations through automation during certificate renewals and significantly reduces the time and effort required to manage certificate life cycles. DCVaaS can facilitate the validation process in under five minutes, allowing companies to deploy certificates more quickly than ever—making it an essential tool as the industry moves toward shorter certificate validity periods. With the end of WHOIS email validation, shrinking DCV re-use periods, and shorter certificate lifespans, DCVaaS helps companies maintain compliance and agility in a rapidly changing digital landscape.

Learn more about CSC’s digital certificate management: cscdbs.com/en/solutions/digital-certificate-management/

About CSC

CSC is the trusted security and threat intelligence provider of choice for the Forbes Global 2000 and the 100 Best Global Brands (Interbrand®) with focus areas in domain security and management, along with digital brand and fraud protection. As global companies make significant investments in their security posture, our DomainSec℠ platform can help them understand cybersecurity oversights that exist and help them secure their online digital assets and brands. By leveraging CSC’s proprietary technology, companies can solidify their security posture to protect against cyber threat vectors targeting their online assets and brand reputation, helping them avoid devastating revenue loss. CSC also provides online brand protection—a combination of online brand monitoring and enforcement activities—with a multidimensional view of various threats outside the firewall targeting specific domains. Fraud protection services that combat phishing in the early stages of attack round out our solutions.

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, since 1899, CSC has offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. CSC is a global company capable of doing business wherever our clients are—and we accomplish that by employing experts in every business we serve. Visit cscdbs.com.

 

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Miro Acquires Reforge to Help Organizations Navigate the Transition to AI

 Together, Reforge and Miro will provide a powerful and highly differentiated solution for teams that blends the tools and knowledge needed to innovate in the AI era

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Miro®, the AI Innovation Workspace for teams, today announced that it has acquired (subject to customary closing conditions) Reforge, an AI platform for product teams. The deal includes Reforge's team, learning platform, and AI-powered product development tools.

Organizations are grappling with how to leverage AI to its full potential. In many cases, the problem is not how to code faster, but deciding what to build. That's the bottleneck slowing companies down today. Miro and Reforge are both solving this challenge for customers – tackling the need to build both at speed and with clear strategic direction. Miro brings a collaborative AI workflows platform that brings teams and AI together to plan, co-create, and build at scale. Reforge brings AI-first product development tools, rigorous frameworks, and expert training that teach teams how to make good decisions and build the right thing. Combining Miro’s AI Innovation Workspace with Reforge's knowledge and products creates a comprehensive solution for product teams navigating AI transformation: the platform to accelerate their work and the expertise to direct it.

“The biggest opportunity ahead isn't just moving faster – it's moving faster in the right direction,” said Andrey Khusid, CEO and Founder at Miro. “Teams need support in accelerating what to build and the decision-making during that critical phase of work. Reforge has been instrumental in helping teams learn from the best in the industry and sharpen their product and growth skills. The combination of Miro and Reforge will help organizations to transform towards AI-enabled innovation faster.”

The product development lifecycle is undergoing its largest transformation since inception. Reforge has spent years taking best practices from industry leaders and turning them into repeatable, rigorous frameworks. They teach operators how to solve the hardest problems – a skillset that's more critical than ever. Beyond training, Reforge has built a growing technology business with AI-first solutions that address key gaps in the product development process, creating deep connections with customers, including large enterprises.

“A couple of years ago, we saw that AI was changing not just the tools product teams use, but the skills and judgment they need to succeed,” said Brian Balfour, Founder and CEO at Reforge. “Teams that once relied on intuition and experience now need fluency in AI prototyping, evals, and strategy. We built Reforge to close that gap. Joining Miro lets us do it faster and at a much bigger scale than we could reach on our own.”

Balfour continues, “What started as a single course has grown into a community of over 100,000 alumni and a suite of products used by product teams everywhere. That growth reflects how much the work of building products has changed. Teams need new frameworks, new skills, and better tools to keep up. Joining Miro gives our community and our products the scale to help far more of them do that.”

Key elements of the acquisition:

Reforge Learning will continue to operate as a separate entity at Reforge.com. Investment in new courses will continue, and the Reforge learning platform will maintain independent, vendor-neutral courseware.

Brian Balfour, Reforge’s current CEO, will join Miro as the company’s new Chief Growth Officer.

Tom Willerer, Reforge’s current COO, will join Miro as the company’s Chief Strategy Officer.

Reforge has more than 100,000 Reforge Learning alumni, and its customers include: Workday, Xero, SAP, Mastercard, and Netflix.

This acquisition accelerates Miro as a critical platform for teams building products in the AI era. Together, Miro and Reforge deliver what modern organizations need: the collaborative AI platform where teams make better decisions, combined with the frameworks and training to navigate the biggest transformation in product development history. The result is a fundamental shift in how companies innovate and build for the future.

About Miro

Miro is the AI Innovation Workspace that brings teams and AI together to plan, co-create, and build the next big thing, faster. Serving more than 100 million users across 250,000 customers, Miro empowers cross-functional teams to flow from early discovery through final delivery on a shared, AI-first canvas. With the canvas as the prompt, Miro's collaborative AI Workflows keeps teams in the flow of work, scales shifts in ways of working, and drives organization-wide transformation. Founded in 2011, Miro currently employs more than 1,600 people in 14 hubs around the world. To learn more, visit https://miro.com.

Miro and the Miro logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of RealtimeBoard, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

About Reforge

Reforge is the operating platform for product teams, combining the largest professional community of experienced product, growth, and marketing operators with a suite of AI-native tools purpose-built for product discovery. Reforge Insights aggregates and synthesizes customer feedback to surface what matters most, Reforge Research powers AI-driven surveys and interviews at scale, and Reforge Build enables rapid prototyping to test ideas before committing engineering resources. Backed by a network of over 100,000 alumni from the world's top technology companies, Reforge helps teams close the growing gap between the speed of modern engineering execution and the pace of product discovery. Learn more at https://reforge.com.

 

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NetApp and Commvault Advance Cyber Resilience with Strategic Alliance

 SAN JOSE, Calif. - Tuesday, 24. March 2026 AETOSWire Print 

Joint unified cyber resilience solution delivers data security and rapid recovery across hybrid environments

 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, and Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced a strategic alliance to deliver a powerful, integrated solution for enterprise data protection and cyber resilience. The unified solution enables resilience, security, and rapid recovery for customers across on-premises and cloud environments, giving organizations confidence that their data is always available, immutable, and recoverable.

“This alliance reinforces NetApp and Commvault’s leadership in the rapidly evolving cyber resilience and data protection market,” said Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer at NetApp. “Together we’re helping customers make their infrastructure intelligent and secure so they have the confidence that their data is always available, protected, and recoverable—no matter where it lives—while expanding our joint go-to-market reach and driving growth in a high-demand segment.”

Enterprises are re-architecting their cyber resilience strategies for an AI-driven world where unstructured, mission-critical data is growing at an unprecedented scale. As analytics, AI, video, and IoT workloads surge, resilience can no longer be reactive. Recovery from ransomware and cyber threats must be rapid, automated, and inherently secure. Resilience at scale is now foundational, not optional, for compliance support, operational continuity, and competitive advantage.

This alliance addresses a critical need for scaling resilience via unified cyber detection and ransomware recovery. By combining Commvault’s leading resilience, protection, and recovery capabilities with NetApp’s enterprise-grade data platform with built-in intelligence and AI-driven ransomware detection, the companies create a highly differentiated, end-to-end cyber resilience solution.

“Organizations often detect cyberattacks like ransomware too late, after they have spread across primary systems and backups, leading to a larger blast radius, extended downtime, and missed recovery time objectives,” said Gagan Gulati, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data Services at NetApp. “The alliance between Commvault and NetApp enables customers to further defend and recover from ransomware attacks in real-time, support compliance requirements, and help ensure business continuity across hybrid environments. By combining proven resilience and built-in detection and response capabilities, our joint customers can have the peace of mind that their data is available, protected and recoverable no matter where it lives.”

Closed Loop Recovery Architecture with NetApp Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP)

With this alliance, NetApp and Commvault together deliver a closed-loop recovery architecture that combines early ransomware detection signals with an automated, validated recovery workflow at scale. This approach can streamline RPOs and help organizations embrace a Resilience Operations (ResOps) strategy for a more proactive defense against cyberattacks. By integrating NetApp’s AI-powered ARP on primary storage integrated with Commvault’s threat aware backup and Synthetic Recovery, organizations can minimize data loss, accelerate complete recoveries, and regain operational confidence when it matters most. Additionally, this joint offering can help customers also realize shorter rollback windows and improved data preservation with a faster return to operations and lower downtime costs.

Future joint innovation will include leveraging NetApp ONTAP restore technology as the target to further reduce data loss and significantly improve recovery speed.

“The first step in building cyber resilience in your organization is the ability to recover with trust and speed,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault. “Together Commvault and NetApp detect potential attacks close to the data and make trusted recovery decisions to quickly, cleanly, and completely restore data at scale. Our joint customers will be able to innovate with confidence that their data and their business can be resilient in the face of disruption.”

To learn more about NetApp and the new collaboration with Commvault, visit NetApp booth #S-2439 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco from March 23-26.

Additional Resources

Cyber Resilience: The Most Secure Storage on the Planet

Autonomous Ransomware Protection: The World’s First On-Device, File-Based, Real-Time Threat Detection Solution

NetApp | Commvault

About Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale. In a constantly evolving threat landscape, Commvault keeps customers ready by unifying data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery, on one cloud-native, AI-enabled platform. Customers trust Commvault to conduct the fastest, most complete recoveries – not just their data, but their entire business. Purpose-built for the agentic enterprise, Commvault also enables organizations to safely embrace AI while protecting against AI-driven threats.

About NetApp

For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.

At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.

Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.

With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.

Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Andersen Consulting Enters into a Collaboration Agreement with Ventum Consulting

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(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Andersen Consulting expands its global platform with the addition of collaborating firm Ventum Consulting, a German-based business transformation and technology consulting firm specializing in digital transformation, enterprise agility, product development, data-driven innovation, and emerging technologies such as AI.

Ventum Consulting helps organizations bridge the gap between business and technology by delivering tailored solutions across strategy, process optimization, and IT implementation. The firm’s expertise includes data and AI, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, sustainability, cloud transformation, and agile enablement, representing only a selection of their comprehensive service portfolio. Ventum Consulting works with clients across industries including automotive and manufacturing, financial services and insurance, healthcare and life sciences, and the public sector to accelerate digital transformation, enhance operational resilience, and drive measurable business value — empowering organizations for the next era.

“Collaborating with Andersen Consulting allows us to strengthen our global reach while maintaining our focus on innovation and client proximity,” said Hajo Börste, partner at Ventum Consulting. “Through structured joint business development and shared delivery capabilities, we can combine our strengths to deliver scalable, high-impact end-to-end transformation solutions that help organizations adapt and position themselves for continued success.”

“This collaboration strengthens our ability to deliver integrated solutions that connect strategy, technology, and execution,” said Mark L. Vorsatz, global chairman and CEO of Andersen. “Ventum Consulting’s technical expertise and collaborative culture complement our global consulting platform and enhance our ability to help clients transform and scale.”

Andersen Consulting is a global consulting practice providing a comprehensive suite of services spanning corporate strategy, business, technology, and AI transformation, as well as human capital solutions. Andersen Consulting integrates with the multidimensional service model of Andersen Global, delivering world-class consulting, tax, legal, valuation, global mobility, and advisory expertise on a global platform with more than 50,000 professionals worldwide and a presence in over 1,000 locations through its member firms and collaborating firms. Andersen Consulting Holdings LP is a limited partnership and provides consulting solutions through its member firms and collaborating firms around the world.

 

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MariaDB Completes GridGain Acquisition to Power the Next Generation of Agentic AI

 The acquisition creates the industry’s first AI-Ready Operating Platform – unifying transactions, analytics and in-memory speed to eliminate infrastructure fragmentation

 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--MariaDB plc today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of GridGain Systems, Inc., the pioneer of in-memory computing and the force behind Apache Ignite. This strategic acquisition marks MariaDB’s move towards delivery of an AI-Ready Operating Platform, a unified system designed to handle the extreme-velocity data requirements of autonomous AI agents.

As enterprises transition from simple AI assistants to autonomous agentic systems that reason and act, traditional data layers are reaching a breaking point. By integrating GridGain’s in-memory technology, MariaDB now provides a single, high-velocity, persistent grounding layer that supports the entire AI lifecycle – from real-time data ingestion to complex reasoning.

“For the last 18 months, we have been building MariaDB for the agentic era,” said Rohit de Souza, CEO of MariaDB. “By bringing GridGain into the fold, we are delivering a unified platform that does the heavy lifting for the enterprise. We are removing the friction of manual data assembly and defining the high-velocity grounding layer that AI agents need to be truly useful – all backed by integrated support from a single company.”

Solving the Agentic Gap

The urgency for this platform is backed by industry shifts. Gartner® predicts, “40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by 2026 – up from less than 5% in 2025.”¹ Without a high-quality data foundation, “IDC warns that by 2027, companies that fail to establish high-quality, AI-ready data foundations will suffer a 15% productivity loss as generative and agentic systems falter” (IDC FutureScape 2026; Category: Worldwide Agentic Artificial Intelligence; Prediction 1).

MariaDB’s new platform addresses this inflection point by consolidating previously fragmented layers:

Unified transactions & analytics: Run real-time analytics alongside live transactions on the same platform without the friction of ETL (extract, transform, load).

In-memory velocity: Leveraging GridGain’s expertise to provide sub-millisecond response times for agentic workloads.

Natively AI ready: Built-in vector capabilities to store, index and query embeddings, along with MCP server and integrations to AI frameworks, essential for building RAG workloads.

Global scale: Technology to support AI deployments across hybrid and multicloud environments, with instant scaling.

The Agentic Shift: No Assembly Required

Instead of forcing developers to manually stitch together separate databases for memory, vector search and transactions, MariaDB now offers a “single pane of glass” for data. This reduces complexity, lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) and allows developers to focus on building agent logic rather than managing backend bottlenecks.

“Building for this level of scale today is like trying to build a high-speed machine out of a bucket of LEGOs – you have the pieces, but none of the pieces were meant to fit together under that kind of intensity,” said Vikas Mathur, chief product officer at MariaDB plc. “At AI-speed, the window for a response shrinks. A data platform like MariaDB no longer has seconds; it has single-digit milliseconds to deliver answers to agents. By providing a platform with a high-speed in-memory ‘baseplate’ already built-in, we eliminate the friction of manual assembly. We are giving developers a unified grounding layer that can handle the massive scale these agents demand.”

Looking Ahead: The Distributed Future

GridGain’s technology provides the foundation for the next phase of MariaDB’s evolution: a globally distributed data layer. As AI agents become autonomous and dispersed, the data they rely on must be as resilient and localized as the agents themselves. By extending the MariaDB Enterprise Platform into a distributed architecture, MariaDB ensures this grounding layer can scale across any region without sacrificing the sub-millisecond speed that machine-velocity workflows demand. This is a significant acceleration of MariaDB’s commitment to a world where machine-speed is the baseline.

A Year of Unstoppable Momentum

The completion of the GridGain acquisition is the latest milestone in a series of strategic moves to redefine the modern data stack for the AI era. Over the past 18 months, MariaDB has rapidly accelerated its innovation cycle, marked by MariaDB’s acquisitions and complete integrations last year of SkySQL (cloud/DBaaS) and Galera Cluster (high availability). MariaDB also recently launched MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2026, the industry’s first unified solution to feature native RAG-in-a-box pipelines and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, allowing AI agents to communicate directly with enterprise data. In addition, last year the company launched MariaDB Exa, an extremely powerful analytics engine that enables near real-time analytics on transactional data without the need to ETL or move data.

This commitment to innovation has earned significant industry recognition. In the past year, MariaDB was honored with the 2025 DBTA Readers’ Choice Award for Best Overall Database and the 2025 AI TechAward for Best in Open Source AI. These accolades, combined with the introduction of native vector search and a new serverless cloud experience, solidify MariaDB’s position as the definitive high-velocity alternative to legacy database constraints.

Customer and Analyst Endorsements

“At Hatch, we ensure the timely delivery of some of the world's most complex engineering and construction projects. To manage this level of global scale, we moved beyond rigid and siloed legacy infrastructure to a data-centric platform,” said Tara Drover, CIO at Hatch. “By migrating to GridGain, we dramatically reduced our data processing times, transforming complex analysis and mid-project changes that once took minutes into near-instant outcomes. This is exactly the type of high-velocity capability we needed as we move toward an agentic future and deliver intelligent, predictive project management capabilities to our customers. We are excited to see GridGain become a foundational part of MariaDB, offering a unified platform that can support the next generation of autonomous and data-intensive workflows across the industries we serve.”

“MariaDB has been assembling a broader AI-ready platform through integrated vector search, the MariaDB Exa partnership for high-performance analytics, and the reacquisition of SkySQL to strengthen cloud delivery,” said Devin Pratt, research director, Data Management for IDC. “The GridGain acquisition extends that strategy into in-memory and real-time data processing, which may appeal to buyers seeking a more open alternative to fragmented or proprietary data stacks.”

Register for our upcoming webinar: Learn more about how MariaDB and GridGain are powering enterprise agentic AI strategies, by joining our joint webinar on April 8, 2026.

About MariaDB

MariaDB seeks to eliminate the constraints and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling organizations to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications. Enterprises can depend on a single complete hybrid database platform for all their needs, that can be deployed in minutes for transactional, analytical, hybrid and AI use cases. Trusted by organizations such as Deutsche Bank, DBS, Nokia, Red Hat, Samsung and VirginMedia O2 – MariaDB delivers customer value without the financial burden of legacy database providers. For more information, please visit mariadb.com.

¹Gartner Press Release, Gartner Predicts 40% of Enterprise Apps Will Feature Task-Specific AI Agents by 2026, Up from Less Than 5% in 2025, August 2025, https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-08-26-gartner-predicts-40-percent-of-enterprise-apps-will-feature-task-specific-ai-agents-by-2026-up-from-less-than-5-percent-in-2025.

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