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Dr. Krishnan Suthanthiran announced plans to establish Kitsault Energy (KE), a proposed energy corridor located north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada. The project is designed to connect inland energy resources to a dedicated port and terminal at Kitsault, enabling efficient export to international markets. KE aims to facilitate the export of Canada’s abundant crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other key commodities—including potash, uranium, canola, and pulse crops—to Asia and beyond.

The Kitsault site has extensive infrastructure, including housing for up to 1,000 residents and amenities such as a library, recreation options, post office, shopping center, supermarket, bank, restaurants, and a medical clinic. These features make the KE pipelines, port, and terminal project a cost-effective option with relatively low environmental impact.

The scope of the project has since expanded to include construction of a deep-water port at Observatory Inlet. This port would be connected to Kitsault via road and rail and integrated with the Canadian National Railway network, which extends to Port Churchill in northern Manitoba, Canada.

These enhancements would enable both the Observatory Inlet port and Port Churchill to support the export of energy products and other commodities, strengthening Canada’s trade capacity with global markets.

Dr. Suthanthiran feels that Canada and its provinces are losing hundreds of billions of dollars by ignoring this project for the last 13 years. The KE project, with the town of Kitsault and approximately 350 acres of land owned by KE in northwest British Columbia, has tremendous potential to generate tens of billions of dollars for the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the federal government of Canada in addition to creating thousands of high-paying jobs and significant investment in First Nation communities for purified drinking water, sewer systems, housing, medical clinics, and jobs and job training.

Dr. Suthanthiran continues to actively promote the development of the KE pipeline and export terminal through ongoing engagement with stakeholders across Canada and Asia. Since early March, he has held in-person meetings with interested parties in Saskatchewan and Alberta, while maintaining ongoing outreach to stakeholders in Canada, India, and China over the past 13 years.

For additional information about Kitsault Energy and Dr. Suthanthiran, visit: http://graphics.teambest.com/KE_Project_20_details.pdf

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Infidigit, one of India’s leading SEO, GEO, and digital growth companies, has delivered an award-recognised growth outcome for Avataar Skincare, demonstrating how organic search can be engineered as a sustained revenue channel in an AI and LLM-driven search landscape.

The collaboration focused on transforming how Avataar Skincare captured and converted local demand for its dermatologist-led at-home skin treatments, including at-home laser hair removal in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore and ten other Indian cities. Executed between February and August 2025, the initiative repositioned organic search as the brand’s primary booking engine—without reliance on performance advertising.

Operating in a medically sensitive category where trust, precision, and intent matter more than scale, Infidigit moved beyond traditional SEO execution. The team designed a local-to-lead growth framework. It integrated SEO, AI SEO, LLM optimisation, and conversion rate optimisation (CRO) to align visibility directly with revenue outcomes.

City-specific service pages were structured to reflect real-world availability and optimised for discovery across traditional search, AI Overviews, and LLM-powered interfaces. Educational content was intentionally separated from transactional journeys. This approach clarified user intent and significantly improved conversion efficiency.

Execution was powered by Infigrowth, Infidigit’s proprietary AI-driven growth platform, enabling city-level search intelligence, structured optimisation workflows, and continuous performance monitoring. Hence, visibility metrics were directly mapped to user behaviour, bookings, and revenue.

Business Impact

• 183.64% increase in non-brand organic clicks
• 2738.4% growth in organic leads
• 4751% increase in organic revenue
• 4607.69% higher ROI compared to the January 2025 baseline

Measurable improvement in AI-led visibility across AI Overviews and LLM-driven discovery

Conversion optimisation was embedded from day one. Booking journeys were simplified, calls-to-action refined, and trust signals surfaced earlier in the decision path. This increased visibility translated into measurable business impact.

Commenting on the engagement, Kaushal Thakkar, Founder and CEO of Infidigit, said:

“Search is no longer linear. Visibility today spans engines, AI answers, and LLM-driven interfaces. When SEO, LLM optimisation, and conversion design work together, organic search becomes a predictable growth channel, not an experiment.”

Saumya Misra, Founder, Avataar Skincare, added:

“Trust is the ultimate currency in dermatology, and scaling it digitally is challenging. Infidigit helped us build a sustainable, revenue-focused growth engine. Organic search is now a major driver of high-quality leads, and this recognition validates the precision-first approach we adopted.”

The award-winning case study is now being referenced as a benchmark for how brands can adapt to local-first, AI and LLM-assisted discovery. It reinforces Infidigit’s position as a growth partner for businesses aiming to convert organic visibility into long-term revenue.

A scalable quantum error correction system has been developed by QpiAI to enable fast, scalable error correction using a rotated surface code architecture. The decoder, based on a union-find algorithm, is designed to operate in real time alongside superconducting qubits and represents a key step toward practical fault-tolerant quantum computing.

The system implements a distance-5 rotated surface code using 49 physical qubits. Each decoder instance runs on a single QpiAI Kaveri QPU, which provides 64 qubits, allowing one decoder instance per chip. The architecture is optimized to support efficient decoding and integration with existing quantum hardware.

QpiAI Founder and CEO Dr Nagendra suggested, “The design of QpiAI QEC for 64 qubit Kaveri QPU is a promising development towards large scale Quantum computing deployment. With this setup we would like to prove Error correction and reduction in errors possible and eventually lead to fault tolerant Quantum computing. QpiAI FTQC will lead us to many advances in pharmaceutical, chemicals, manufacturing and climate modelling. QpiAI is excited for this to be demoed soon. Further current QEC is capable of being used on transmon qubits. We will be implementing next generation of QEC for QpiAI Qubits (Fluxonium variant) and distributed QEC to be used across QPUs.”

Vamsi Krishna, VP of Digital Hardware, said, “Roadmap for QpiAI QEC would be to develop robust quantum error correction codes and Decoders including qLDPC to optimise on the number of physical qubits and to achieve two logical qubit gates using QEC. While current state-of-the-art QEC decoder for distance 5 surface codes runs at 60 microsecond latency and runs on CPUs and GPUs, we were able to achieve end to end latency of 1.5 microsecond and decoder only latency of less than 1 microsecond. This is very significant latency reduction on a purpose built hardware. This is version 1 of QEC decoder. In next version we will add distance 7 surface code support and qLDPC. As decoder support for various QEC configuration stabilizes we plan to fabricate the QEC processor in advanced process node to reduce footprint and power consumption.”

Dr Manjunath R V, VP and GM for Quantum Hardware, added, “QpiAI Quantum processors have error-correction architecture as foundational design principle with optimised superconducting quantum processor layout and fabrication. Leveraging QpiAI fast-decoder platform with QpiAISense quantum control electronics enables scalable development of quantum processors towards fault-tolerant quantum computing at QpiAI.”

Significant Milestone for Indian National Quantum Mission (NQM)

Indian NQM invested in QpiAI to design 64 qubit Kaveri QPU. NQM has significant Milestone at hand. Dr Abhay Karandikar, Secretary of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, suggested, “Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is essential for scalable quantum computing. By implementing distance 5 surface code QEC in custom hardware rather than traditional CPUs, QpiAI is accelerating the deployment of its 64-qubit Kaveri QPU in India, marking a major step toward practical, large-scale quantum utility. From National Quantum Mission, we are excited with this development.”

Each error-correction cycle completes in approximately 1.5 microseconds. To account for measurement errors, the system performs five rounds of stabilizer measurements per correction cycle, ensuring robust detection and correction of both qubit and measurement faults.

The qubit coherence times in 64 qubit Kaveri are promising, with T1 times around 100 microseconds and T2 times around 95 microseconds, providing sufficient headroom for multiple error-correction cycles within the coherence window.

At the core of the system is a compact hardware decoder capable of completing decoding for a distance-5 rotated surface code in a maximum of 40 clock cycles. The design is intentionally lightweight and scalable: the current platform can accommodate up to 20 decoders simultaneously, enabling parallel error-correction across multiple logical qubits. Future systems with larger FPGA resources will allow deployment of additional decoders or support for higher-distance surface codes.

Active correction capabilities are currently being implemented to allow real-time correction of qubits on the fly, further reducing accumulated error rates. The decoder already supports Pauli errors and measurement errors, making it suitable for realistic quantum noise environments.

The Kaveri QPU architecture has been specifically designed to be surface-code friendly, with qubit connectivity tailored for efficient stabilizer measurement and decoding. In parallel, additional qubit connectivity architectures are being explored to support more efficient decoding strategies and higher-performance error-correction schemes.

The current setup uses simulated qubits to validate the decoding pipeline and system performance. Integration with physical qubits and experimental results from running the decoder alongside connected qubits in 64 qubit Kaveri QPU are under development.

This development demonstrates a practical pathway toward scalable, hardware-accelerated quantum error correction — a critical requirement for building reliable, large-scale quantum computers.

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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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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Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced wins in three categories of the 20th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.

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Rimini Street Wins Multiple Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service Excellence

Considered a top industry honor for customer service, contact center, business development and sales professionals, winners were selected based on the average scores of 150 industry experts worldwide across eight specialized judging committees. Rimini Street distinguished itself among more than 2,100 nominations.

“These Stevie Awards affirm what our clients experience every day: AI delivers the greatest value when it elevates human expertise, not replaces it,” said Craig Mackereth, EVP, global support delivery at Rimini Street. “By combining our patented, proprietary AI capabilities with senior-level engineers and a relentless client-first culture, we remain at the forefront of delivering extraordinary service outcomes that help our clients move faster, reduce risk and fund innovation – without disrupting mission-critical systems.”

Gold Stevie Winner for Best Use of AI in Customer Service: AI-Enhanced Human Service, Engineered for Mission-Critical Environments

Rimini Street earned the Gold Stevie for its in-house AI-powered client support platform designed to strengthen direct, expert-to-client engagement from the first touchpoint and deliver consistent, scalable service across complex enterprise environments. Purpose-built for enterprise support, Rimini Street’s three proprietary AI applications: Case Assignment Advisor, C-Signal and Case Assistant, deliver measurable improvements in case handling speed, quality and outcomes.

One Stevie Awards judge commented, “This is a highly compelling example of AI augmenting human-led enterprise customer service at scale, with strong quantified outcomes and clear differentiation from self-service-centric industry approaches. The measurable improvements in resolution time, escalation reduction, response times, and satisfaction scores demonstrate mature, production-scale AI impact.”

With the recent launch of Rimini Agentic UX™ Solutions, powered by ServiceNow®, Rimini Street further extends its AI capabilities to help organizations achieve faster outcomes with greater savings, speed and agility. Clients realize AI-driven productivity gains in weeks to months, not years, while preserving stability and cost control.

Silver Stevie Winner for Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year (Technology Industry): People-First Approach to IT Support, Rooted in Industry-Leading Innovation

Rimini Street’s Global Service Delivery organization – comprising more than 1,100 professionals, including dedicated senior-level Rimini Support™ engineers with over 20 years of experience – earned the Silver Stevie for its ability to deliver highly personalized, responsive and dependable enterprise software support to clients worldwide.

One Stevie Awards judge noted, “Excellent job by Rimini Street in delivering personalized, rapid and AI-empowered enterprise software support, enabling clients to extend software value while achieving $10B in cumulative savings.”

Rimini Street backs its service excellence with a guaranteed 10‑minute SLA for priority cases, delivered on average in under 90 seconds, and a guaranteed four‑hour resolution time for priority tickets. The service delivery team consistently maintains a 4.9 out of 5.0 client satisfaction score across tens of thousands of cases closed each year—demonstrating disciplined execution and deep expertise in supporting mission‑critical systems for global enterprises.

Bronze Stevie Winner for Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy: Where Customer Needs Drive Every IT Support Solution

Rimini Street earned the Bronze Stevie for a customer satisfaction strategy rooted in long-term partnership, executive sponsorship and deep alignment with each client’s business and technology roadmap.

By integrating directly into clients’ strategic planning processes, Rimini Street aligns IT support and innovation with business priorities and transformation goals – helping organizations maintain control of their IT investments while confidently navigating the complexities of licensing, security, roadmapping and AI decisions.

Learn how thousands of clients have funded innovation and boosted profitability by following the Rimini Smart Path™ to achieve Transformation without Disruption™ within existing budget.

About Rimini Street, Inc.

Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a proven, trusted global provider of end-to-end, mission-critical enterprise software support, managed services and innovative Agentic AI ERP solutions, and is the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software. The Company has signed thousands of IT service contracts with Fortune Global 100, Fortune 500, midmarket, public sector and government organizations who have leveraged the Rimini Smart Path™ methodology to achieve better operational outcomes, billions of US dollars in savings and fund AI and other innovation.

To learn more, please visit www.riministreet.com, and connect with Rimini Street on X, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

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iQmetrix, the global provider of Interconnected Commerce solutions purpose-built for telecom retail, today announced it has joined TM Forum and earned recognition as an Open Digital Architecture (ODA) Component Directory Partner. The achievement validates that iQmetrix aligns with the ODA vision and that its platform is built around standardized open APIs, modular cloud-native components, and interoperable architecture aligned with how leading operators are building their digital futures.

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iQmetrix partners with TM Forum’s ODA Component Directory to accelerate open, future‑ready telecom transformation

The recognition comes as communications service providers (CSPs) accelerate AI adoption and move away from integration-heavy legacy environments. For operators under pressure to reduce technical debt, lower cost, and move faster, architecture standards are no longer a procurement footnote, they are the deciding factor.

What ODA Alignment Means for Operators

As a TM Forum ODA Component Directory Partner, iQmetrix maps platform capabilities directly to defined ODA components. For CSPs, this translates to a concrete operational advantage: interoperable, composable deployment within multi-vendor ecosystems, without the fragile custom integrations that slow transformation and inflate cost.

“Telecom operators have spent years stitching together disconnected systems with fragile glue code and legacy patches,” said Christopher Krywulak, Founder and CEO at iQmetrix. “We took a different approach from day one. Interconnected Commerce is architected as a modular operating layer, not bolted together after the fact. Our ODA alignment confirms that what we’ve built isn’t another silo, it’s infrastructure for modern telecom.”

An AI-Native System of Intelligence for Telecom Retail

iQmetrix Interconnected Commerce is an AI-native telecom commerce platform that acts as a system of intelligence. Rather than layering AI onto legacy complexity, it embeds intelligence directly into commerce workflows, enabling real-time orchestration, improved visibility, and faster decision-making across retail channels, partner ecosystems, and global markets.

The platform connects telcos, retailers, and OEMs into a single coordinated flow, replacing fragmented stacks with a modern operating layer that reduces complexity and lowers total cost of ownership, without requiring operators to rebuild from scratch.

What Sets iQmetrix Apart

“CSPs don’t want another platform that requires heavy integration to prove its value,” added Krywulak. “They want solutions that align with industry standards, deploy cleanly, and scale without baking in new technical debt. That’s exactly what ODA alignment enables, and it’s exactly how we’ve built this.”

By contributing to TM Forum’s ODA framework, iQmetrix positions itself as a partner in advancing a shared, composable software standard for the industry, reducing vendor lock-in, shortening transformation timelines, and giving operators the architectural freedom to evolve.

Explore Interconnected Commerce

Unlock the full power of modern telecom retail. Learn how iQmetrix Interconnected Commerce can reduce complexity and accelerate your digital transformation: iQmetrix Interconnected Commerce.

About iQmetrix

iQmetrix is a global provider of Interconnected Commerce software solutions for telecom retail. Interconnected Commerce is an AI-native telecom commerce platform that acts as a system of intelligence. It replaces fragmented legacy stacks with a modern, modular operating layer, connecting telcos, retailers, and OEMs into one flow across channels and markets. The result is less complexity, lower cost, and the speed to move ahead.

For 26 years, we’ve been passionate about helping the leading brands in telecom to grow by providing best-in-class software, services, and expertise that enables them to adapt and thrive. Our solutions power $17BN in sales annually, handling nearly 53 million invoices and more than 28 million activations, and are used by more than 370,000 telecom retail professionals across almost 1,000 clients. iQmetrix is a privately held software-as-a-service (SaaS) company with employees in Canada, the U.S., India, and Europe. For more information, please visit www.iqmetrix.com.

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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.

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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.

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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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Hyperice, a high-performance wellness brand,has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026. This year’s list shines a spotlight on businesses that are shaping industry and culture through their innovations. Alongside the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Fast Company recognizes 720 honorees across 59 sectors and regions.

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The past 12 months have marked one of the most prolific periods of product innovation in Hyperice’s history, spanning every major technology category in the company’s portfolio.

“To be named to Fast Company’s list for a second time is a proud moment for our team and a reflection of the pace at which we are able to innovate,” said Jim Huether, CEO of Hyperice. “The Hyperboot with Nike, the Hyperice X 2, Normatec Elite Hips, and the all-new Hypervolt 3 line represent the most ambitious stretch of new technology in our history. We’re proud of the work and even more motivated by what’s to come.”

The past 12 months have marked one of the most prolific periods of product innovation in Hyperice’s history, spanning every major technology category in the company’s portfolio. In partnership with Nike, Hyperice introduced the Hyperboot, a first-of-its-kind wearable recovery device built with feedback from Paris 2024 Summer Olympians. The collaboration brought together Nike’s footwear expertise and Hyperice’s recovery technology to create a fully integrated device designed to accelerate lower-body recovery, setting a new standard for wearable wellness.

Building on the momentum of the Hyperboot, Hyperice launched the Hyperice X 2 Knee and Hyperice X 2 Shoulder in August 2025, representing the most significant technological leap in the company’s contrast therapy line to date. The Hyperice X 2 devices introduced a built-in multi-level compression system that drives heat and cold deeper into tissue, an expanded temperature range from 40°F to 121°F, and a new all-in-one display for cord-free portability. Hyperice then unveiled the Normatec Elite Hips in October 2025, the first fully portable, standalone dynamic air compression massage device engineered specifically for the hips, IT bands, and lower back, eliminating the need for separate control units.

Most recently, in March 2026, Hyperice launched the entirely redesigned Hypervolt 3 product line, including the Hypervolt Go 3, Hypervolt 3, and Hypervolt 3 Pro. The new line delivers a quieter, more intuitive experience, with more power, a longer battery life and larger head attachments for deeper relief. All three devices are FSA/HSA eligible, making professional-grade percussion therapy more accessible than ever.

The World’s Most Innovative Companies is Fast Company’s hallmark franchise and one of its most anticipated editorial efforts of the year. To determine honorees, Fast Company’s editors and writers review companies driving progress around the world and across industries, evaluating thousands of submissions through a competitive application process. The result is a globe-spanning guide to innovation today, from early-stage startups to some of the most valuable companies in the world.

“Our list of the Most Innovative Companies is about spotlighting organizations that don’t just adapt to change—they drive it,” said Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “The companies we honor this year are redefining what leadership looks like in 2026, pairing bold ideas with measurable impact and turning breakthrough innovation into real-world value. They are setting the pace for their industries and offering a blueprint for what sustained innovation can achieve.”

The full list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies honorees can now be found at fastcompany.com. It will also be available on newsstands beginning March 31, 2026.

Fast Company will host the Most Innovative Companies Summit and Gala for honorees on May 19 in New York City. The summit features a day of inspiring content, followed by a creative black-tie gala including networking, a seated dinner, and an honoree presentation.

About Hyperice

Hyperice is a technology-driven company with a giant mission, to help everyone on Earth move and live better. For more than a decade, Hyperice has led a global movement at the confluence of recovery and wellness, specializing in percussion (Hypervolt line), dynamic air compression (Normatec line), vibration (Vyper and Hypersphere lines), thermal technology (Venom line), contrast therapy (Hyperice X), and Hyperboot collaboration with Nike. Now, as a holistic high-performance wellness brand, Hyperice is designed for all – from the most elite athletes, leagues, and teams to consumers everywhere looking to unlock the best version of themselves to help them do what they love, more. Recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and a TIME Best Inventions winner, Hyperice has applied its technology and know-how to industries including fitness, hospitality, healthcare, massage, physical therapy, sports performance, and workplace wellness on a global scale. For more information, visit hyperice.com.

About Fast Company

Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow business publication Inc. For more information, please visit fastcompany.com.

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