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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — April 7, 2021 – The pressure on digital architects has more than doubled since the outbreak of COVID-19, research from Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, shows. According to the survey of 450 digital architects across the USA, UK, France, and Germany, 48 percent are currently under high or extremely high pressure to deliver digital projects, compared to just 19 percent pre-pandemic. Yet, despite this pressure, architects are still delivering results, with nearly half (48 percent) delivering digital projects uninterrupted by the pandemic.

Other findings include:

• 86 percent of architects say COVID-19 has made it harder to get the right technology in place for digital transformation, while 38 percent say it has disrupted their plans to deliver digital projects.

• 61 percent said that past technology decisions had made completing digital transformation projects more difficult – in particular, cloud infrastructure (48 percent) and database (43 percent) decisions.

• Only 13 percent of organizations are still in the planning phase of digital projects, compared to 22 percent in 2019 – indicating that, despite the challenges of the pandemic, nearly all organizations are committed to digital projects that are underway.

“The sudden acceleration of initiatives to transform businesses to adapt to the new digital reality imposed by COVID has put the Architects under both limelight and tremendous pressure,” said Ravi Mayuram, SVP of Engineering and CTO at Couchbase. “Transformation starts with modernizing data infrastructure and then fixing the application stack above it, which isn’t for the faint of heart. Last year was a once-in-a-generation event, and the Architects are thriving in meeting the demands placed on them.”

The research highlights the problem of over-relying on legacy databases. Despite most organizations believing relational databases do not have major potential to revolutionize digital transformation, 91 percent still rely on them – 31 percent heavily. Though this finding is lower than in 2019, organizations still face challenges with legacy databases. 61 percent of organizations that still rely on legacy databases say they make it harder to implement new digital projects.

With regards to legacy databases, the survey also found:

• 64 percent are locked into using them because they have invested heavily in the relevant skills, while the same percentage say legacy databases hold their systems of record.

• At least 60 percent of organizations have either reduced their use of legacy databases over the past 12 months, or plan to over the next 12.

• 49 percent say moving from legacy to NoSQL databases has been significantly helpful or even indispensable in meeting their goals.

• COVID-19 has pulled organizations almost equally in opposite directions: 34 percent say it has accelerated their move away from legacy databases, while for 33 percent, it has put these plans on hold.

Architects were also clear on where they believe the future lies. Respondents said that the cloud (identified by 68 percent) and Big Data (59 percent) have the most potential to revolutionize digital transformation – perhaps because both enable organizations to adapt to an increasingly online and decentralized world. Respondents were also clear which approaches had been of significant help or indispensable in meeting their goals. These included: moving from on-premises databases to the cloud (identified by 65 percent); the flexibility to quickly change goals when needed (63 percent); and adopting technology that didn’t require investing in new skills (60 percent).

“COVID-19 has highlighted the pitfalls of an outdated and inadequate data foundation,” continued Ravi Mayuram. “But it’s not all doom and gloom. Many organizations are moving away from legacy databases towards more modern NoSQL offerings and are seeing accelerated innovation as a result. Though many organizations have been in this journey, COVID has been the tipping point for this acceleration as well as the increasing adoption of modern databases. By continuing to study what has worked during and after the pandemic, we can build a blueprint that will help increase digital transformation success.”

• To read the full report, “Digital Transformation: Have architects risen to the COVID-19 challenge?”

SANTA CLARA, Calif., — March 31, 2021 — Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced the availability of Couchbase Cloud in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store that provides applications and services for use on Microsoft Azure.

Couchbase Cloud combines high-performance, memory-first architecture of key-value stores with a SQL-friendly query language, developer SDKs, and a schema-flexible JSON format– all deployed as an elastically scaling, ACID-compliant, globally replicating cluster architecture. By leveraging Couchbase Server and best practices for virtual network (VNet) deployment on Microsoft Azure, Couchbase Cloud enables customers to lower operational costs while maintaining control over data and security. It provides single pane of glass control of multicloud management and cross-data-center replication (XDCR), simplifying management and deployment of multiple clusters across clouds in different regions. The software’s transparent configuration and licensing combine with node-for-node performance to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). The benefits of Couchbase Cloud include:

• Hourly or prepaid credits with no minimum monthly limits.

• No margin stacking by hiding Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) within subscriptions.

• Ability for customers to configure and grow their IaaS at the pace of their dev, test, production, and growth phases.

• Choice of SLA levels per cluster via Developer Pro and Enterprise options.

• Avoiding cloud service provider lock-in from using vendor-specific applications.

“Couchbase Cloud on Microsoft Azure brings the scale and flexibility of Couchbase as a fully managed DBaaS solution to customers who have standardized on Microsoft solutions,” said Matt McDonough, SVP of Business Development at Couchbase. “Customers can use their enterprise agreements with Microsoft to purchase Couchbase Cloud, making the procurement of Couchbase Cloud even easier. With Couchbase Cloud, enterprises can optimize costs while improving agility and innovation by having the same control of data and costs that they would have in their own datacenter, allowing them to support innovation and agile development on their own terms.”

“Through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, customers around the world can easily find, buy, and deploy partner solutions they can trust, all certified and optimized to run on Azure,” said Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp. “We’re happy to welcome Couchbase Cloud to the growing Azure Marketplace ecosystem.”

The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners that have developed solutions that are ready to use.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 25, 2021 – 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 Couchbase’s 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.

As the name suggests, the new Couchbase Associate Architect program is designed to support Application and Solutions Architects looking at how best to align individual development projects to overarching business goals. The program provides a deep dive into Couchbase services and uses code examples across the three most used languages for Couchbase implementations: Java, C#, and Node.js. The Architect can clearly see practical coding examples in the language used at their organization. A prerequisite to the Professional level course, the Associate Architect program will be available for registration starting February 26.

“Providing certification as a companion to training has become imperative as it is an objective way to measure the level of Couchbase skills a person has mastered. It also provides customers who work with Couchbase partners confidence that they are using qualified professionals on specific skill sets,” said Mark Secrist, Director, Technical Training at Couchbase.

The new Couchbase Professional Administrator program, a prerequisite to the Expert level course, is considered the baseline for Couchbase Administrators in business environments. While Associate training builds confidence in foundational Couchbase concepts, the Professional level focuses on delivering the skills needed to get Couchbase up and running quickly within an organization.

“With this latest set of releases, Couchbase is continuing to deliver on our promise to build courses and certifications for all supported roles, whether that is a Developer, Architect, or Administrator across skill levels. As evidenced with the addition of these new courses, the Couchbase Academy will continue to evolve to reflect changes in the Couchbase offerings and the database industry,” said Secrist.

Register to enroll in a Couchbase Certification Program here.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 8, 2021 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Matt McDonough, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, to its 2021 list of Channel Chiefs for the third consecutive year. The prestigious CRN® Channel Chiefs list, released annually, recognizes leading IT channel vendor executives who continually demonstrate outstanding leadership, influence, innovation, and growth.

Matt McDonough brings more than a decade of experience in business development, strategy, product management, and marketing to Couchbase. He is responsible for the continued development and execution of Couchbase’s worldwide partner strategy across technology partners, solution partners, systems integrators, cloud service providers, and channel partners. Matt is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and Harvard Business School. 

“Matt’s inclusion on CRN’s Channel Chiefs List for three consecutive years is a testament to his leadership and the respect he has among the channel community,” said Matt Cain, President and CEO of Couchbase. “Matt was instrumental in driving our AWS strategic partnership, the advancement of Couchbase’s technical and go-to-market collaboration with Red Hat, and the expansion of our partnership with Infosys.  Modeling the Couchbase values, Matt acts with uncompromising integrity and plays to win with others. His continued recognition by CRN has been not only a great accomplishment for him, but for Couchbase as well, and we look forward to building upon the momentum he has created in our channel partner community.”

The 2021 Channel Chiefs are prominent leaders who have influenced the IT channel with cutting-edge strategies, programs and partnerships. All honorees are selected by CRN’s editorial staff based on their dedication, industry prestige, and exceptional accomplishments as channel advocates.

“CRN’s 2021 Channel Chiefs list includes the industry’s biggest channel evangelists, a group of individuals who work tirelessly on behalf of their partners and drive growth through the development of strong partner programs and innovative business strategies that help bring business-critical solutions to market,” said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. “The Channel Company is proud to recognize these channel influencers and looks forward to following their continued success.”

CRN’s 2021 Channel Chiefs list will be featured in the February 2021 issue of CRN® Magazine and online at www.CRN.com/ChannelChiefs.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., — February 4, 2021 – As the impact of COVID-19 on organizations continues to bite, developers are playing a key role in helping organizations meet their digital transformation goals despite facing significant challenges, according to the second of three pieces of research from Couchbase. In the survey of 450 European and U.S. senior IT decision makers^*, 92 percent of respondents believed that DevOps could have a revolutionary impact on their digital transformation efforts, while 63 percent said that the flexibility to change their goals when needed has been significantly helpful or indispensable in meeting their digital transformation goals. However, this flexibility has come at a cost: 49 percent of respondents reported their development teams have indicated they are being asked to do too much in too little time. 

“In a year when organizations have had to struggle to adapt to new decentralized ways of working and rapidly evolving markets, developers have come under severe pressure to help their organizations adapt,” said Steve Yen, Co-Founder of Couchbase. “And, development teams need the right support; from clear project goals to the right tools and technologies that support agility and rapid adaptability in these changing times.” 

There are challenges for both organizations and developers; 86 percent of respondents experienced challenges with their development teams, including:

• Setting clear, measurable goals for the development team (40 percent)

• Ensuring development teams always have the right technology (40 percent)

• Ensuring the development team clearly understands the organization’s strategic goals (31 percent)

• Identifying and solving the challenges facing development teams (31 percent)

While developers’ contributions are undeniable, these challenges may still be preventing them from reaching their full potential. 40 percent of respondents said their development teams were behind schedule with their current projects.

“Even in the current crisis, organizations are investing in developers – in fact, our survey revealed that development teams have grown by an average 20 percent in 2020,” continued Yen. “To get the most out of this important investment, there needs to be investment in not just people, but also in the technology, management, and communication that will help individuals succeed. Ultimately, if businesses can help their developers become more agile and flexible, they will find it easier to ensure they are focused in the right direction. In an increasingly challenging world, developers have a vital role to play. Investing in them in the right way will help them play to win.” 

Couchbase performed its research to understand the challenges of digital transformation for developers, digital architects, and the CIO themselves. In its next update, it will examine the stresses and technical challenges facing the architecture team. 

^*Survey of 450 senior IT decision makers in the US (150), UK (100), France (100) and Germany (100) performed in September & October 2020 by Vanson Bourne

SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 14, 2021 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced that Couchbase Cloud, its award-winning, fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), is now available on Microsoft Azure.

Couchbase Cloud is a fully managed version of Couchbase Server, the original multi-purpose NoSQL database. Couchbase Server combines the high-performance, memory-first architecture of key-value stores with its SQL-friendly query language, robust developer SDKs, schema-flexible JSON format, all deployed as an elastically scaling, ACID compliant, globally replicating cluster architecture. Couchbase Cloud combines this power and versatility while eliminating the complexity and burden of managing, operating, and maintaining a database in the cloud.

The uncertainty of today’s economy continues to drive organizations to accelerate digital transformation plans, bringing equal parts opportunity and cost control pressure to IT. Couchbase Cloud helps organizations capitalize on both goals through:

• Couchbase Server, combined with emerging best practices for in-virtual private cloud (VPC) deployment on Microsoft Azure, which enables customers to lower the operational costs of traditional deployments without giving up control over data and security
• A “single pane of glass” control plane for multicloud management and cross-data-center replication (XDCR), simplifying management and deployment of multiple clusters across clouds in multiple regions
• Transparent configuration and licensing that combine with the software’s node-for-node performance to deliver low total cost of ownership (TCO) for applications that serve today’s online-only user communities

Couchbase combines performance advantage with highly transparent licensing policies that allow customers to construct their own cost comparisons and make clear choices. Couchbase’s benefits include:

• Hourly or prepaid credits with no minimum monthly limits
• No margin-stacking by hiding IaaS within subscriptions
• Customers can configure and grow their IaaS at the pace of their dev, test, production, and growth phases
• Choice of SLA-levels per cluster via Developer Pro and Enterprise options
• Avoiding cloud service provider lock-in from using vendor-specific applications

Availability 

Couchbase Cloud on Microsoft Azure is available immediately as a 30-day trial, which runs inside the customer’s Azure account. It is offered in two packages, Developer Pro and Enterprise, which offer differentiated service level guarantees for development and testing needs versus business-critical support for production systems. For more information visit https://www.couchbase.com/products/capella/

Supporting quotes

“Rapid changes to business processes requires flexibility that remains one of the key drivers for enterprises moving to the cloud. This includes flexibility with IT management, application developing and testing, user access, deployment options like multicloud, and most importantly, pricing. With dynamic pricing options, the In-VPC deployment approach, and now its availability on Microsoft Azure, Couchbase Cloud offers flexibility and cost control that are attractive to today’s enterprises as they strive to maximize their ROI to stay competitive.”
–Larry Carvalho, Research Vice President, IDC

“For customers who have standardized on Microsoft solutions, Couchbase Cloud on Microsoft Azure brings the scale and flexibility of Couchbase as a fully managed DBaaS solution. With the availability of Couchbase Cloud on Azure, Couchbase continues to help enterprises optimize costs while improving agility and innovation by giving customers the same control of data and costs as they would have in their own datacenter, allowing them to support innovation and agile development on their own terms.”
— Scott Anderson, SVP, Product Management & Business Operations, Couchbase

Resources:

• Learn more about Couchbase Cloud
• Get pricing for Couchbase Cloud
• Couchbase Cloud FAQ  
• Sign up for free trial
• Watch demos

SANTA CLARA, Calif., — December 21, 2020—Despite significant upheaval to organizations’ digital transformation plans, the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to a surge in innovative projects,  according to research from Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database. In Couchbase’s fourth annual digital transformation survey,  77 percent of organizations had to either make “noticeable” or “major” changes to their digital transformation plans, or start again from scratch. However, the rate of innovation (i.e. the number of projects driven by an original idea from within the business) almost doubled, rising from 8 percent in 2019 to 14 percent. Similarly, organizations were still able to meaningfully improve the end-user experience while responding to COVID-19. Yet worryingly, the number of failed, delayed, or scaled-back projects is still high, at 79 percent. This potentially represents a significant waste of resources: enterprises spent an average of $5.5M on these projects over the year.

In general, while the pandemic caused a rapid reappraisal of digital transformation plans, it did not stop investment. Key findings included:

• Pandemic reaction supports spending increase: Average digital transformation spend grew from $27 million per organization in 2019 to $27.5 million in 2020. The reaction to COVID-19 helped this: enterprises’ spending in response to the pandemic ranged from +3.8 percent in Germany to -0.7 percent in the UK, for an average of +2 percent.

• End-user experience focuses on pandemic reaction: 55 percent of organizations made significant or better improvements to the end-user experience this year, compared to 73 percent in 2019. However, 17 percent created an excellent end-user experience in their response to COVID-19.

“Enterprises understand that the real test will be in how they adapt to life and business in 2021 and beyond,” said Ravi Mayuram, SVP of Engineering and CTO at Couchbase. “The underlying issues that were preventing modernization of an aging digital stack have been brought to the forefront by the pandemic, and there is now even greater impetus to accelerate ‘digital transformation.’ This realization that aging infrastructure will not serve organizations’ new needs in a post-pandemic world where we will live, work and play remotely has tipped the scales in favor of new investments in innovation and modernization.”

The research suggests that, outside the pandemic, organizations are still struggling to meet their digital transformation goals. The need to divert resources in response to COVID-19 was the most common factor either preventing organizations from pursuing new digital transformation projects (affecting 31 percent of organizations), or causing those projects to fail, suffer delays, or be scaled back (affecting 29 percent). Yet more organizations were prevented from pursuing projects, or suffered project disruption, for reasons that had nothing to do with the pandemic. For instance:

• Technology challenges preventing projects: 55 percent of organizations could not pursue a digital transformation project for reasons besides COVID-19, including the complexity of implementing technologies (experienced by 31 percent), reliance on legacy technology that couldn’t meet new digital requirements (28 percent) and a lack of resources or funds (25 percent)

• COVID-19 not responsible for majority of project disruption: 50 percent of organizations suffered project disruption such as failure, delays, or scaling back for non-COVID-19 reasons, including the complexity of implementing new technologies (24 percent), lack of resources or funds (22 percent) and reliance on legacy technology (20 percent) that were nothing to do with the pandemic.

Disrupted projects don’t only have a financial cost, but can have a significant effect on business strategy. 72 percent of organizations have had to push their strategic goals back by more than a month or even reset them completely because of delayed, scaled-back or cancelled digital transformation projects.

“COVID-19 was a unique event: many of the challenges organizations face are far more deep-seated,” continued Mayuram. “Organizations that have worked so hard to adapt and succeed in 2020 should not see their gains lost because of issues that have been known for years. Instead, they should make sure they have the resources they need to build upon their experiences and truly succeed in digital transformation. This means having the technology, the skills, and the investment that will help drive innovation to new heights.”

AWS RE:INVENT — December 8, 2020 — Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced the availability of self-service trials for its Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). The trial allows users to immediately get up and running with Couchbase Capella for free, hosted within their own virtual private cloud (VPC) on AWS. 

Couchbase also announced Couchbase Capella’s support for AWS regions in Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo– expanding global coverage of the fully managed DBaaS. Finally, Couchbase Capella now offers the full suite of capabilities of Couchbase Server 6.6. This means that organizations can harness the benefits of advanced analytic processing, querying, full-text search and eventing services that greatly improve developer productivity, and by extension, the organization’s overall operational agility — in full production or as part of the new self-service trials. 

As organizations accelerate their digital transformation journeys, the need to quickly and efficiently scale their database infrastructure to meet increased processing demands has driven the adoption of DBaaS solutions. However, organizations need clarity on how DBaaS can meet their specific needs, and assurance that the features, pricing model and data ownership structure aligns with their unique requirements. The Couchbase Capella self-service trial enables organizations to experiment with this high-performance DBaaS in a production-grade environment, to find out how it can work for their business, all as part of one of the most comprehensive DBaaS trials on the market.

‘Full-fat’ functionality

While other DBaaS providers place limits on the functionality of their trial offers or require payment information up-front, the Couchbase Capella self-service trial configuration offers organizations a fully managed DBaaS with all the services and features of Couchbase Server included. Key features include:

– Full control: The trial follows Couchbase Capella’s philosophy of giving users total control and transparency over their data and its cost of operation. Instead of mandated hosting on shared infrastructure, the Couchbase Capella self-service trial is hosted on a dedicated cluster within the user’s own public cloud environment, giving total control to the user.

– Scale: While some DBaaS trial offerings on the market limit users to 500 MB of storage, the Couchbase Capella self-service trial offers up to 200 GB across three database nodes, and the choice of two AWS EC2 instance types for the cluster, enabling the creation of trial infrastructures that support millions of documents.

– Ease of access: Users sign up via the Couchbase website with no need to hand over any credit card information, allowing them to get up-and-running immediately. Since it’s hosted within the user’s own public cloud environment, the Couchbase Capella self-service trial does away with up-front payment; instead, users simply pay their public cloud provider for the infrastructure they use.

Supporting quotes:

“In less than six months, Couchbase Capella has come a long way. Couchbase has demonstrated impressive performance and ease of operations at scale. They have expanded globally, upgraded the environment’s engine to Couchbase Server 6.6 and added integrations. Now, with this self-service trial, they are making it easier for organizations to see for themselves, on their own and at their own pace, how productive they can be building applications using Couchbase Capella.”
–Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC

“The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation process for many organizations. As a result, data demands have intensified substantially, and demand for DBaaS has surged. Yet those organizations wanting to find out how DBaaS can work for them may have been put off by the risk of losing control of their data; or becoming locked into a restrictive, over-expensive pricing model. With the Couchbase Capella self-service trial, we’re giving users the opportunity to explore the full potential of DBaaS on their own terms.”
–Scott Anderson, SVP, Product Management & Business Operations, Couchbase

Resources:

• Download the Couchbase Capella free trial at www.couchbase.com/download/

• Read the blog

• Watch the Couchbase Capella presentation from Couchbase Connect.ONLINE

LONDON– December 3, 2020 – With a keen desire to get back on the road, travelers are cautiously resuming to search for and book flights and hotels. But travel players are facing a challenging new reality – one where performance, flexible operations and personalized service are quickly taking on a whole new meaning in order to remain relevant. 

To this end, Amadeus has extended its partnership with  Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multi-cloud to edge NoSQL database. The new multi-year agreement will see Amadeus using Couchbase to dynamically scale its levels of service and continue to deploy applications quickly. Couchbase’s versatile and cloud-agnostic database already powers a number of Amadeus applications across search, shopping and merchandising for airline and hotel customers, as well as Traveler-DNA (former Customer Experience Management) – and Amadeus will be adding more in line with evolving industry needs. 

Expanding its use of Couchbase is part of Amadeus’s strategy to continue taking advantage of the cloud and developing new applications to support the industry. Couchbase’s features such as integration with Kubernetes are an important element of this strategy, as well as its ease of use for developers, coupled with the agility and scalability to help solutions ramp up and complete faster. 

As a result, Amadeus developers have quickly adopted Couchbase, seeing a significantly decreased time-to-market thanks to reduced data friction issues and an easier integration with third-party partners. This represents a close fit with Amadeus’ platform approach – allowing engineers to solve a growing number of complex business challenges quickly and efficiently. Ultimately this partnership opens the way towards innovative solutions that can offer greater personalization, an essential need in the current environment.

“Supporting the recovery of the travel industry is our prime objective. We are currently in a highly challenging environment, where the industry is having to react at speed to changing traveler needs and demands.” said Sylvain Roy, SVP, Technology Platforms & Engineering, Amadeus.

Roy continued, “The ability to develop new travel applications and functionality quickly, whilst ensuring those that our customers already rely on continue operating at peak effectiveness, is critical. Couchbase’s database makes it much simpler for our engineers to focus on what they do best: solving our customers’ business challenges – all the while improving collaboration with partners and developers. Our growing partnership will help us deliver the enterprise-class performance, scale, flexibility, reliability and traveler focus that our customers need, enabling us also to innovate more freely in key areas such as merchandising, NDC or loyalty.”

“Amadeus is one of our largest and most important customers, and how they have used our technology is nothing short of impressive,” said Matt Cain, President and CEO, Couchbase. “Amadeus has built a truly scalable platform that enables them to dynamically adjust service levels as needed and simultaneously drive future innovation aligned to their digital transformation initiatives. We are proud of our partnership with Amadeus and the role we’ve been able to play in helping them provide delightful experiences for their customers in ever-changing circumstances. We look forward to further supporting them in powering the recovery of the travel industry.”

About Amadeus

Travel powers progress. Amadeus powers travel. Amadeus’ solutions connect travelers to the journeys they want through travel agents, search engines, tour operators, airlines, airports, hotels, cars and railways. 

We have developed our technology in partnership with the travel industry for over 30 years. We combine a deep understanding of how people travel with the ability to design and deliver the most complex, trusted, critical systems our customers need. We help connect over 1.6 billion people a year to local travel providers in over 190 countries. 

We are one company, with a global mindset and a local presence wherever our customers need us. 

Our purpose is to shape the future of travel. We are passionate in our pursuit of better technology that makes better journeys. 

Amadeus is an IBEX 35 company, listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange under AMS.MC. The company is also part of the EuroStoxx50 and has been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the last eight years. 

To find out more about Amadeus, visit www.amadeus.com.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., — November 19, 2020– Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced it has been named to Battery Ventures’ list of the 25 Highest-Rated Private Cloud Computing Companies to Work for During the COVID Crisis. The ranking is based on Couchbase’s Glassdoor reviews over the past six months, which demonstrates the company’s ability to lead during a crisis. And for the fourth consecutive year, Couchbase also announced it has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech companies in North America.

This year’s Top Privately-Held Cloud-Computing Companies to Work For list is a twist on Battery’s annual list of highest-rated cloud firms in terms of employee happiness. The list is based on data collected during the first six months of the pandemic from jobs and recruiting site, Glassdoor, which measures employee satisfaction at work. Battery elected this year to focus on company ratings only during the pandemic, given the tremendous disruption COVID-19 has caused many companies. Couchbase’s inclusion on this list highlights the company’s ability to lead during a crisis. But more broadly, the rankings can be an indicator of corporate innovation, growth and strong financial performance.

“We are honored to be included on Battery’s list,” said Matt Cain, President and CEO of Couchbase.  “We are doing everything we can as a company to protect and help our employees and their families, along with our customers and partners, as we collectively navigate the challenges of this pandemic.  This recognition is really a testament to the character, dedication, and toughness of the extended Couchbase team and its unrelenting focus to do the right thing by those we serve.  We pride ourselves at Couchbase not only on what we do, but how we do it, and current circumstances are no exception.”

Couchbase’s inclusion in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM list, for the 4th consecutive year, recognizes the exceptionally high rate of growth achieved through a consistent focus on sustained differentiation and innovation in service of its customers.   New products launched over the past year include Couchbase Cloud, the fully-managed database as a service; Couchbase Server 6.6; Couchbase Sync Gateway and Couchbase Lite version 2.8; and Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0.  As a result, existing customers such as AppDynamics, AT&T, BD, Carrefour, and Zynga expanded their relationships and new logos including Bankinter, S.A, Evernote, Orange Espana and TripActions were added.  To support the continued expansion of the company, Couchbase grew its employee base substantially over the previous fiscal year.

“We are becoming the next great enterprise software company by simultaneously delivering sustained differentiation, driving long-term profitable growth, and building a world-class team,” continued Cain. “We are proud to be named to the Deloitte Technology Fast500 for the 4th consecutive year as a result of our continued focus and commitment to all of these areas as we accelerate growth of our technical innovation, our customer base, and our talent.  I’d like to thank our customers, partners and employees for making all of this possible.”

The two latest industry awards add to a growing list of recognition that Couchbase has garnered this year, including:

• DBTA Readers’ Choice Award: Best Database Overall

• DBTA Readers’ Choice Award: Best In-Memory Solution (3rd consecutive year)

• Glassdoor’s Top 5 Best Software Companies to Work For

• 2020 Bay Area Best Places to Work

• TrustRadius “Top Rated”

• 2020 Tech Ascension Awards: Cloud Innovator of the Year  

• DBTA 100: Companies that Matter the Most in Data

• Datanami Editors’ Choice Award: Top 5 Vendors to Watch

• JMP Securities Hot 100 List

• IDC Innovator

• Accel Open100

• Baird Disruptors 2020

• D.A. Davidson’s Herd 2020

About Battery Ventures

Battery strives to invest in cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including software and services, Web infrastructure, consumer Internet, mobile and industrial technologies. Founded in 1983, the firm backs companies at stages ranging from seed to private equity and invests globally from offices in Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, London, New York and Israel. Follow the firm on Twitter @BatteryVentures, visit our website at www.battery.com and find a full list of Battery’s portfolio companies here.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — November 10, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced it has partnered with VetsinTech  to enable veterans to accelerate their careers in the high-tech industry. Couchbase has joined the VetsinTech employer coalition, offering free training, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to veterans and active duty military transitioning from military to civilian life.

With nearly six million work-eligible veterans in the U.S., underemployment remains one of the greatest issues faced by veterans and military spouses. According to LinkedIn’s 2019 Veteran Opportunity Report, veterans are 15.6% more likely to be underemployed than nonveterans. Underemployment includes those who aren’t fully utilizing skills and abilities, may be working part time while pursuing learning goals, or take temporary or part time work while searching for a better career fit.

VetsinTech is a leading national non-profit dedicated to supporting veterans through tech-based education, employment, and entrepreneurship programs. The organization connects global technology companies with its more than 30,000 members through training and career development programs.

Couchbase’s participation in VetsinTech aligns with the company’s goal to connect veterans and military spouses with tech careers in which they can apply their exceptional training, skills, and experience. With veteran representation within its Executive Team and across key roles in its Engineering, People, and Sales teams, Couchbase continues to recruit transitioning active duty military and veterans to join its increasingly diverse team.

Supporting Quotes

“Expanding community support with leading companies such as Couchbase is the fuel that propels VetsinTech to help even more veterans embark on a meaningful career in the tech arena. We’re grateful to Couchbase for their recognition and support of our mission. This partnership with Couchbase exemplifies the power of tech organizations joining forces in a shared common vision of supporting our veterans through tech-based education, entrepreneurship and job opportunities.”
–Katherine Webster, Founder and CEO of VetsinTech

“Couchbase’s inclusive culture is made possible by the contributions and diversity of thought offered by team members with varied backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to count a growing number of veterans among our employees and honored to partner with VetsinTech to offer resources necessary to advance veteran careers in tech.”
–Chris Galy, Chief People Officer, Couchbase

Couchbase is hiring! Check out open positions on the career page at https://www.couchbase.com/careers/

About VetsInTech

Based in San Francisco, with more than 30,000 vets strong and 15 chapters across the country, VetsInTech is the leading national non-profit devoted 100% to springboarding veterans into tech careers. VetsinTech harnesses the national technology ecosystem to benefit veterans returning from active military duty and who want to apply their exceptional training, skills, and experience to a new career in technology. Comprised of technology industry leaders and former service members, VetsinTech is the only non-profit that supports our veterans through tech-based programs and opportunities in education, employment, and entrepreneurship. For more information, interested parties can visit www.vetsintech.co.

COUCHBASE CONNECT.ONLINE–October 16, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced more than 120 enterprises –representing some of the largest companies in the world–are using Couchbase Autonomous Operator, the most mature NoSQL database operator available on the market. As organizations accelerate their journey to the cloud, the need to automate and scale workloads and reduce costs has driven the adoption of containerization tools such as Kubernetes. Version 2.1, available this winter, extends Couchbase Autonomous Operator’s leading position, enabling greater standardization of developer services and increased control over costs.

Since its launch in August 2018, companies such as Amdocs, Amadeus, Staples, BD Health, CenterEdge, and several others have been leveraging Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) as a key part of their cloud automation strategy. CAO plays an important role in organizational transformation towards a cloud-native, CI/CD DevOps model. Businesses have reported that CAO smooths organizational transformations, reducing operational complexity by 95% with a single, programmatic architecture for deployment. DevOps need only change a handful of values in a YAML configuration file to invoke a topological reassignment, rebalance or upgrade of an entire distributed Couchbase cluster environment, reducing the cluster maintenance workload from months down to a few keystrokes. This accelerating  adoption is a direct consequence of businesses being able to bring high-value applications to market more quickly. 

The rise of the cloud economy 

COVID-19 has accelerated adoption of cloud-native services such as containers even further. Placing greater urgency on digital transformation projects that previously would have taken four or five years, the pandemic has made swift cloud adoption a necessity rather than a ‘we’ll-get-there’ priority. Standardizing integration, operations and architecture is crucial for organizations to deploy on any cloud. And it’s crucial that each deployment is trustworthy so IT teams can focus on developing new services for the business vs. managing cloud architecture. These are key driving forces behind the popularity of Kubernetes, and consequently, the strong adoption of Couchbase Autonomous Operator.

Coming this winter: Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.1

Each new feature in version 2.1 makes it simpler for teams to standardize the developer environment and infrastructure, reducing complexity and placing flexibility and control where it belongs – the IT team. Some of the features planned for Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.1 include:

• Auto-scaling for stateless Couchbase services: To ensure that services always have the performance they need, without the risk that unchecked scaling will create unexpected costs, stateless Couchbase services such as Query and Ephemeral Bucket are scaled out or down automatically, based-on YAML-configured thresholds. As a result, organizations can presume peak performance without adding costs. 

• Usage metering reports: to ensure organizations can keep control of costs and usage, Autonomous Operator creates fine-tuned reports into historical cluster usage broken out over user-defined time periods. As a result, organizations know precisely what resources are used when and by whom, preventing unexpected usage and increasing control. 

• Support for Istio service mesh: As environments become larger and more complex, managing a distributed microservices infrastructure becomes increasingly difficult. By integrating Istio service mesh, Autonomous Operator 2.1 gives organizations the capabilities they need to manage any size of microservices architecture, including load balancing, service-to-service authentication and monitoring.

Supporting Quotes

“The latest version of Couchbase Autonomous Operator aims to further reduce complexity by automating the end-to-end deployment of hundreds of database clusters to offer a new level of standardization across cloud services. Alongside our other offerings such as Couchbase Cloud and Couchbase Mobile, Autonomous Operator 2.1 will further reduce the need for a separate control plane for databases and bring databases into standard CI/CD pipeline of application development.” 
— Ravi Mayuram, SVP of Engineering and CTO, Couchbase

What customers have said:

“As a software engineer, one of the things I am least excited about is managing shell scripts. The Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes alleviates that pain and completely automates management of Couchbase on our Kubernetes cluster. It’s a game changer.”
–David Downey, Software Developer, BD Diabetes Care — Digital Health

“The Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes is a marvelous addition to the Couchbase ecosystem, reducing our IT administration overhead by at least 80 percent. It sets the bar for all other clustered databases in any cloud environment.”
–Brant Burnett, Systems Architect, CenterEdge

“We are pleased to see another great update of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator. Overall, Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes is a visionary technology that is focused on automating data management with new added features that effectively reduces human effort and time.”
–Girirajan Soundar Rajan, Senior Data Operations Engineer, Staples

Resources:

• For a deep dive into Couchbase Autonomous Operator, tune in to the Cloud Native track at Connect.ONLINE, which has nearly 20 presentations. Replays available on demand. Register at: https://www.couchbase.com/connect/

• Download Couchbase Enterprises Edition and Autonomous Operator today

COUCHBASE CONNECT.ONLINE– October 15, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced the availability of the Couchbase Associate Java Developer Certification program. A curriculum within Couchbase Academy, formerly Couchbase Training, the new certification program is the first of a new breed of upskilling opportunities for developers and database administrators to improve their foundational and practical knowledge of Couchbase’s solutions.

Couchbase Academy provides extensive hands-on learning experiences to help teams implement Couchbase products quickly and effectively. Whether you want to learn on your own or with the guidance of an in-person instructor, the Academy’s courses cover Couchbase NoSQL, data modeling, analytics, querying, indexing, searching, various software development kits (SDKs), administration topics, and we’re expanding our programs every quarter.

The new Couchbase Associate Java Developer program is an online channel to gain certification for developing with Couchbase products in mind. Access to the program is free, and students can earn certification when they complete a proctored exam for only a nominal fee.

The program focuses on related practical examples and highly interactive learning, coupled with a lab environment where Java Developers can test their newfound insights in hands-on use cases. Students are taken through a series of levels that culminate in developing a functional music app service, demonstrating along the way how Java engages with Couchbase solutions.

Program attendees can learn at their own pace and require no previous knowledge of Couchbase’s NoSQL database solutions. The course requires as few as 15 hours in total, followed by a 90 minute proctored exam under the supervision of a third party testing vendor.

“We developed the Couchbase Associate Java Developer program to be impactful and something developers can use effectively,” said Mark Secrist, Director, Technical Training at Couchbase. “Instructional portions leverage video, interactive components and granular features to keep attendees interested and engaged, typically in 5 to 20 minute stints. These are followed by lab sessions where the students are allowed to practice their newfound skills without impacting their production instances. Lab portions account for around two-thirds of the program, underlining how much this is focused on practical and tangible upskilling, designed to drive higher retention of presented information. Our program focuses on evolving code, which happens to be what developers do.”

The Couchbase Associate Java Developer program is the first of several new training initiatives at Couchbase and serves as a companion to its updated Developer Course. Couchbase offers numerous courses to train its user base, now increasingly expressed through personas, to help prospective students select the best tracks to fit their ambitions and requirements.

COUCHBASE CONNECT.ONLINE–October 15th, 2020--Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced the winners of the first ever Couchbase Community Awards, alongside those of the 2020 Couchbase Partner Awards. Guest judges for the Couchbase Community Awards included Carl Olofson, Research Vice President at IDC, and Jon Reed, Co-Founder of Diginomica. 

Introduced as part of Couchbase’s Connect.ONLINE event, the Couchbase Community Awards recognize organizations’ work in accelerating the modernization of legacy databases and enabling innovation for enterprise-critical applications. Awarded separately for the Americas and EMEA, these first awards honored nine Couchbase customers across retail, logistics, healthcare, travel, fashion and product development. 

At the same time, the Couchbase Partner Awards recognized Red Hat, Infosys and Gluu. Open to Couchbase’s network of more than 300 partners, the awards recognize our partners’ work in bringing differentiation and innovation to customers, and leading them to successful outcomes as they pursue their digital modernization strategies.

Couchbase Community Awards Winners:

Advanced NoSQL architectures: 

• Americas winners: Staples/UPS

  • Staples adopted Couchbase enterprise-wide to support its customer-centric digital transformation journey: substantially improving the experience it offers, while increasing customer retention

  • UPS used Couchbase to overhaul its package visibility platform: meeting sub-millisecond response time requirements for key-value operations, managing more than 8 billion documents, and handling up to 460 million tracking requests with zero downtime  

• EMEA winner: Tesco

  • Using Couchbase to help customers through the worst of COVID-19-induced shortages, Tesco transformed its application architecture for faster delivery to customers while prioritizing delivery slots for the most vulnerable

Cloud computing:

• Americas winner: Facet Digital

  • Facet Digital used Couchbase Cloud to overhaul its legacy DBaaS platform, reducing TCO by 50 percent while increasing query performance by as much as 2,000 percent

• EMEA winner: Carrefour Spain

  • With Couchbase Cloud, Carrefour Spain implemented a cloud-first architecture using microservices and multi-dimensional scaling to ensure zero downtime, even at peak times

Community Architecture and Innovation:

• Americas winner: Backpack EMR

  • Used Couchbase to digitize a primarily paper-based healthcare delivery process, improving the patient experience and saving non-profit medical providers 20% compared with using paper charts

• EMEA winner: Prewave

  • Used Couchbase to create a live ‘disruption map’, identifying potential supply chain disruptions in light of COVID-19. Prewave reduced data loads from minutes to seconds, and went from proof of concept to production in just two months

Innovating at the Edge:

• Americas winner: Carnival Corporation

  • Used Couchbase to support its OCEAN Medallion offering, connecting each guest with a floating smart city – containing 7000 sensors, 4000 digital displays, 2,000+ crew sensors, and 1000s of guest sensors – across their entire guest experience 

• EMEA winner: PVH

  • PVH brand Tommy Hilfiger used Couchbase to revolutionize its buying process, creating a ‘virtual showroom’ that helps cut time to market for new collections, and reduces sample production by 80%

Couchbase Partner Awards winners:

Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner of the Year: Gluu

• Gluu has demonstrated Couchbase’s value as a modern, scalable, high performance NoSQL data platform. While some commercial systems can handle millions of logins a day, Gluu has used Kubernetes autoscaling, advanced cloud native technologies and Couchbase to perform over a billion authentications a day – transforming what is possible in the cloud

Cloud and Technology Ecosystem Partner of the Year: Red Hat

• In 2020, Red Hat extended Couchbase’s supported deployment platforms to multi- and hybrid cloud environments. This year’s release of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 certified for Red Hat OpenShift raised the bar, providing an advanced Kubernetes Operator with a ‘level 5’ capability rating.

System Integrator Partner of the Year: Infosys

• The Couchbase/Infosys partnership has continued to expand over the past year, with customer successes across industries including Telco and Media, Consumer/Retail/Logistics, and Utilities/Resources/Energy. New go to market solutions included the Infosys Health Insights Platform, which leverages Couchbase as the “golden record” for ‘patient 360’ data and makes advanced use of Couchbase Analytics capabilities to enable Machine Learning and AI applications. 

“Companies around the world have faced multiple challenges during 2020, from adopting new ways of working almost overnight, to adapting to rapidly changing markets and new business opportunities. Our Couchbase Community Award winners have all demonstrated the ability to use data to transform their businesses, creating new services and solutions that are revolutionizing their industries. Our community –our end-users and partners alike — continue to inspire us with the opportunities they uncover, and we’re looking forward to seeing what they achieve in 2021 and beyond.”
–Matt Cain, President and CEO, Couchbase

COUCHBASE CONNECT.ONLINE–October 14, 2020: Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced version 2.8 of Couchbase Lite and Couchbase Sync Gateway for mobile and edge computing applications. Available today, the release gives organizations the power to take full advantage of a distributed cloud architecture, creating always-fast, always-on applications that guarantee business uptime even in a disconnected computing environment. 

Edge computing continues to grow in importance; according to IDC, edge networks will represent more than 60 percent of all deployed cloud infrastructures by 2023 as enterprises increasingly realize the availability and responsiveness benefits it offers. With version 2.8, Couchbase offers enterprises the latest advancements in mobile and edge computing via the latest peer-to-peer sync and Sync Gateway replication technologies.  

Always-fast, Always-on applications with Couchbase Lite peer-to-peer sync

Business-critical, offline-first applications that operate in disconnected computing environments for extended periods of time, such as emergency response applications, rugged field service devices,  or airline handheld meal ordering systems, need to stay up and running to ensure service continuity, customer satisfaction, and in some cases even personal safety. These applications can only guarantee uptime through direct collaboration between the edge devices. Only Couchbase Lite 2.8’s peer-to-peer sync solution offers secure storage and bidirectional synchronization of data between the edge devices without the need for a centralized cloud-based control point, keeping data flowing and applications running 100% of the time.

Distributed cloud deployments with Sync Gateway replication technology

Enterprises that have adopted a cloud-centric model for deploying applications are now dealing with challenges of Internet latency and unreliability as well as data privacy concerns that can lead to poor customer experience and costly business downtime. The challenges can be overcome by shifting to a distributed cloud-to-edge architecture where only relevant data is stored in the cloud. However, for real time applications requiring 100% business availability and governed by stringent data privacy rules, data processing is done at the edge, closer to the source of data.

The new replication capability in Couchbase Sync Gateway 2.8, in combination with Couchbase Lite 2.8 and Couchbase Server, supports the distributed cloud model at every tier– from the cloud to the edge– securely synchronizing data between web, mobile, and IoT apps and the backend database as well as between cloud and edge data centers. The latest capabilities ensure that critical information never stops moving between the applications and the end users who need it.

Supporting quotes:

“For the new version of our VECMAP software we required a database platform with flexibility and offline-first capabilities for our users. We picked Couchbase from the very first developer build as it provides these features in a strong and reliable package, allowing us to focus on bringing the best of our expertise at Avia-GIS to the software functionalities. Continuous improvements from Couchbase means Couchbase Mobile is the preferred solution for our mobile applications.”
–Bart de Groot, IT Director, Avia-GIS

“The peer-to-peer sync Couchbase supports has become the standard for mobile and embedded apps that need to share data securely, quickly without fail, without the need for a cloud-based control point or an internet connection.”
–Daniele Angeli, Founder & CEO, MOLO17 

“Maintaining current data on occasionally connected devices has been a key aim of database software firms for a long time, but the current trends, involving the processing of high volume and fast-changing edge data, adds a new dimension of challenge to this old problem. It is critical that enterprises act on such data where it will do the most good. With these new capabilities designed to enable users to do just that, Couchbase continues to innovate on its mobile database technology, ensuring that its customers are well-positioned to take advantage of this trend.”
–Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC

“Enterprises of all types are continuing to explore what edge computing has to offer, and we’re starting to approach the point where it reaches its full potential. By making applications less and less reliant on synchronization with a central server, we’re giving enterprises the tools they need to take full advantage of edge. Regardless of their environment, enterprises can seamlessly spin up new edge deployments as and when they’re needed, and take advantage of enhanced data transfer capabilities that make edge applications smarter than ever.”
–Ravi Mayuram, Senior Vice President of Engineering and CTO, Couchbase

Resources:

• Read the blog

• Solutions Page for Edge Computing

• Solutions Page for Peer-to-Peer Sync