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Forbes
a day ago
- Business
- Forbes
Speed Means Nothing If You're Down: Benchmarking For The Real World
Spencer Kimball is the CEO and co-founder of Cockroach Labs. For decades, database performance benchmarks like TPC-C (Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark C) chased peak throughput under ideal conditions. Systems were scaled vertically and micro-optimized at every layer to game benchmarks and maximize transactions per second (TPS). But times—and technology—have changed. Today's applications live everywhere: across regions, clouds and availability zones. They're always on, global and expected to perform flawlessly despite disruptions. Users now demand instant banking balances, lag-free global broadcasts, immediate access to patient records and real-time inventory updates across international supply chains. These aren't aspirations; they're baseline expectations, assumed and demanded unequivocally. Modern workloads are unpredictable, highly distributed and intensely data-driven. Fraud detection, logistics tracking and AI-powered automation now run continuously at a global scale. Autonomous systems assume constant availability and consistency. They don't pause for outages or wait for recovery. They expect the system to be fast, consistent and always available. Yet legacy benchmarks still focus on raw throughput, rarely accounting for the realities of modern architecture: latency spikes, node crashes or regional outages. The true measure of performance isn't speed under ideal conditions—it's resilience under failure. If anyone doubts the importance of resilience, recent history is rife with cautionary tales. • Costco's Black Friday outage in 2019 allegedly cost millions in sales. • Ticketmaster's 2022 crash during Taylor Swift's ticket sales revealed its infrastructure was unprepared for massive spikes. • A faulty update in 2024 froze hospital electronic health records, forcing clinicians to revert to paper and risking patient safety. • CrowdStrike's 2024 outage halted global freight logistics due to insufficient resilience planning. • Barclays and Capital One outages in 2025 left millions unable to access banking services, demonstrating that even leading institutions aren't immune. There is a perennial thread running through this representative sampling of recent failures: The rising complexity of modern applications requires a shift in mindset to resilience as a first-order goal. Modern infrastructure complexity—multiregion, multicloud and governed by stringent regulations like GDPR, PDPA and DORA—demands new benchmarks that prioritize resilience as a fundamental metric, not an afterthought. Benchmarks that ignore this operational and compliance complexity are no longer sufficient. True resilience testing involves deliberately introducing controlled chaos: killing nodes, dropping disks, simulating outages. The objective is clear: Observe the system's behavior under stress. Does it reroute traffic seamlessly? Are transactions duplicated, delayed or lost? How rapidly does performance return to baseline? These aren't trivial operational details—they're critical indicators of system integrity. Chaos testing, a methodology where systems are intentionally stressed to uncover hidden vulnerabilities, is gaining traction. However, resilience testing often remains disconnected from standard performance metrics like throughput and latency. Integrating these tests ensures resilience isn't merely theoretical but quantifiable and central to system design. Just as vehicle performance isn't judged solely by top speed, database benchmarks shouldn't focus exclusively on maximum throughput. Benchmarks must evolve to measure continuity, recovery speed and stability under real-world pressures. Systems engineered with built-in replication, self-healing automation and geographic consensus aren't merely technically superior; they're strategically essential. These aren't just engineering choices; they're risk strategies. And they should be part of how we measure value. Speed without resilience is meaningless. Challenge your teams and vendors to prove resilience under chaos. If they can't, they're not ready for today's demands. The ultimate benchmark isn't the fastest lap—it's staying on track when legacy systems are stuck rebuilding in the pit. Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify?
Associated Press
12-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Cockroach Labs Expands Ecosystem with ISV Partner Program to Deliver Resilient Solutions on Modern Enterprise Platforms
Initiative connects trusted technology partners with enterprise customers to accelerate innovation, resilience, and go-to-market success. NEW YORK, June 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cockroach Labs, a pioneer in cloud-native distributed SQL databases, today announced the launch of its ISV Technology Partner Program – a major milestone in the development of the Cockroach Labs partner ecosystem. This initiative is designed specifically to support Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that build and deliver software solutions which run on or integrate with CockroachDB, enabling seamless innovation across a broad range of mission-critical use cases. From cutting-edge identity and access management platforms to critical transactional systems such as payments, core banking, and more, the program enables ISV partners to develop robust, scalable solutions powered by the world's most resilient distributed SQL database. Initial participants in the ISV Technology Partner Program include mission-critical application providers such as Ory (Identity and Access Management), Teleport (Secure Identity and Access Platform), AuthZed (Authorization Infrastructure), and PhaseTwo (Identity and Access Management). This inaugural cohort represents just a portion of the broader ecosystem we're continuing to build. 'This program marks a major milestone in our mission to build an ecosystem for our customers to comprehensively solve their core business challenges – through best-in-class solutions supported by CockroachDB,' said Cassie Zimmerman, Senior Director of Partner Ecosystem at Cockroach Labs. 'By collaborating with software vendors who share our commitment to uncompromising consistency, resilience, and global scale, we're empowering the next generation of enterprise and digital applications with the industry leader in distributed SQL databases.' The ISV Technology Partner Program provides tiered technical support and go-to-market (GTM) benefits, including: The ISV Partner Program reflects Cockroach Labs' growing focus on building a scalable ecosystem that supports both self-hosted and cloud-native platforms. Designed to meet software vendors where they are, the program helps partners bring enterprise-grade solutions to market faster — whether running alongside CockroachDB or building on CockroachDB Cloud. It formalizes a model that has already driven success across critical industry-leading customers and is especially relevant for ISVs developing modern solutions to mission critical challenges — where resilience, compliance, and global availability are non-negotiable. 'Today's identity demands go far beyond human users—they include services, APIs, and autonomous agents powered by AI,' said Jeff Kukowski, CEO of Ory. 'Our partnership with Cockroach Labs enables us to deliver secure, globally distributed IAM solutions with the resilience and scale required for the modern landscape. The ISV Partner Program provides the structure and alignment we need to deepen that collaboration, accelerate go-to-market efforts, and help customers build with confidence—no matter where or how they deploy.' The program introduces two available tracks for ISV Partners: 'Cockroach Labs and Teleport together bring a powerful combination of resilience and security to modern infrastructure,' said Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport. 'By integrating our Infrastructure Identity platform with CockroachDB's globally distributed SQL database, we're empowering engineering and infrastructure teams to secure data centers and cloud-native infrastructure with global fault-tolerance while reducing operational and engineering complexity.' Enterprises today are no longer just purchasing databases—they're investing in ecosystems of integrated solutions that work seamlessly together. With the ISV Technology Partner Program, Cockroach Labs is deepening its commitment to the platform providers shaping these ecosystems. By connecting customers with trusted technology partners, the program empowers organizations to innovate with confidence and achieve the scale and resilience demanded by modern enterprise applications. The ISV Technology Partner Program was officially introduced at Roachfest London, featuring an inaugural cohort of integrated partners already delivering joint value to customers. Several additional partners are currently in the certification pipeline and expected to join before the end of the year. To learn more or inquire about joining the program, visit About Cockroach Labs Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. The company's clients include Bose, Form3, Hard Rock Digita l, and Shipt, Fortune 50 global financial institutions as well as retail and media industry leaders. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Cockroach Labs, Inc.
Finextra
11-06-2025
- Business
- Finextra
Ensuring operational resilience in 2025 – why the status quo no longer works
0 This content has been created by the Finextra editorial team with inputs from subject matter experts at the funding sponsor. Operational resilience is on all UK payments leaders' minds. In 2024, 95% of business leaders stated that they're aware of operational weaknesses which leave them vulnerable, yet 48% said their organisations aren't doing enough to improve resilience. The European Union (EU)'s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) – having come into effect on 17 January 2025 – is the regulators' push towards improved operational risk incident management across the industry, but how have financial organisations fared when it comes to readiness? What else needs to be done from an infrastructure perspective to achieve greater resilience? Finextra spoke with Rob Reid, technical evangelist at Cockroach Labs, about the company's research on the state of resilience across financial services; how to effectively achieve operational resilience; and what needs to be done to reap benefits that extend beyond mere compliance. How outages turned into the new normal While outages have become common in organisations – Cockroach Labs found organisations experience on average 86 a year – it's major infrastructure blackouts that grabbed the headlines in 2024. The Bank of England reported seven outages to the UK's RTGS (Real-Time Gross Settlement) and Clearing House Automated Payment System (CHAPS) in 2024. Most notably, in July 2024, CHAPS failed and delayed large, time-sensitive payments, which had a substantial impact. With CHAPS usually enabling 200,000 payments a day – with an average daily value of £345 billion – a system shutdown of this scale (245 minutes in fact) resulted in considerable losses. That very same month, the CrowdStrike outage caused global chaos, affecting over 8 million Windows devices. The fallout was immense, with GPs unable to treat patients; hundreds of businesses reporting revenue losses; and planes being grounded globally, leaving travellers stranded in airports. 'Once you've hit rock bottom, the only way is up. And I think we're going to need to see changes,' said Reid, when speaking on the state of operational resilience in financial services. 'The technologies and practices used across the industry aren't keeping up with the needs of modern resilience requirements. Fundamentally, if what we had was working, we wouldn't have DORA.' The state of resilience in light of DORA The EU's DORA officially took effect on 17 January 2025, providing a universal framework designed to enhance information and communication technology (ICT) risk management. 'I am a software engineer with an almost comically low-risk appetite. So, as you can imagine, I've been bemoaning lacklustre operational resilience for many years,' commented Reid. 'DORA is a much-needed wake up call for the industry. I wish we would have had it years ago, because as a software engineer at the coalface, I would have had something to wield.' In order to understand the state of resilience going into 2025, Cockroach Labs surveyed 1,000 senior cloud and technology executives. Alarmingly, the data showed that while 94% of technical executives stated that the CrowdStrike outage encouraged their organisations to reassess their risk management, the operational resilience reality still looks bleak: 93% of leaders are concerned about the financial and organisational impacts of outages; 95% are aware of operational weaknesses that leave them vulnerable; 53% of banking and financial services companies report experiencing service disruptions at least weekly; 20% of respondents describe their organisation as fully prepared for outages; 33% have an organised response approach, and less than a third conduct regular failover testing. Speaking on the results, Reid emphasised: 'Every single person we spoke to reported revenue loss as a result of downtime in the last 12 months. On average, businesses are seeing 86 outages per year, with the average downtime lasting more than three hours. In terms of approaches, this hints at an industry-wide tendency of being reactive to downtime, and I would question whether teams are being given the time, space, and resources required to make meaningful, positive changes in preventing it.' Considering the research was conducted at the end of last year, it is surprising to see how little progress organisations have made toward operational resilience – especially given the DORA deadline. However, considering how much information geared toward DORA readiness has been available, these results show that it might be an issue of agility rather than an issue of understanding. 'Consider DORA from the perspective of a company with aging technology and infrastructure,' commented Reid. 'This all serves to reduce their ability to innovate. They're having to manage all of this potentially archaic infrastructure, let alone react with agility. And it's not only DORA, there is GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation], there is CCPA [California Consumer Privacy Act], and a host of other regulations. Add to that a disaster recovery mindset, necessitated by the presence of primary/secondary architecture, and you've got a perpetuation.' So how can organisations go beyond the minimum requirements of DORA to develop holistic operational resilience strategies? Developing modern resilience strategies For organisations running primary/secondary architecture, failovers and failbacks are key concepts of resilience and disaster recovery. A failover is the process of switching to a backup, secondary system or site when the primary architecture fails – ensuring business continuity – while failback refers to the process of returning to the primary system once the issue is resolved. Reid explained that many organisations are running primary/secondary architectures 'with the hope that things don't go wrong. Because if something goes wrong, they need to fail over, and that is risky. Some businesses never fail back because of the risk associated in failing back to the primary architecture. However, hope is not a strategy. Modern and capable technology must be considered if we are to move beyond the traditional primary/secondary failover mindset, and businesses should be considering technologies that minimise RTO and RPO.' RTO (recovery time objective) is the amount of time that an organisation will be down following an outage, which, according to Reid, should be measured in seconds, not minutes or hours. RPO (recovery point objective) is the amount of data that an organisation loses in an outage. 'And that should be zero,' he argued. 'Let's assume you have a traditional database that you are backing up every hour. That's up to one hour of data that you're going to permanently lose in the event of an outage, simply because you didn't back up more regularly within that time window.' Thinking beyond the primary/secondary architecture approach, self-healing technology is the more modern approach in achieving effective operational resilience. Referring to applications that are capable of detecting, diagnosing, and repairing their own issues without human intervention, self-healing technology – made even more powerful through machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) – enables organisations to better manage their systems' availability. Crucially, self-healing technology can work both reactively as well as preventatively which, according to Reid, is not just important for systems, but for employees as well. In order to achieve reliable availability, the mindset within organisation needs to start rewarding prevention more than finding solutions to existing issues: 'Do employees get more recognition for putting out fires, or do they get more recognition for preventing fires in the first place? Preventing fires will inevitably be a lot less visible if the reward culture celebrates firefighting,' emphasised Reid. 'Businesses can and should be adopting self-healing and distributed technologies. This places the burden of operational resilience on software instead of people, and that frees people up to innovate.' Operational resilience in 2025 and beyond In 2025, downtime is no longer tenable. Resilience, in its many forms, must be made a priority. A failure to comprehensively overhaul and modernise systems and processes will inevitably incur disruptions. 'DORA is the recognition that the status quo isn't doing enough to keep businesses online, and it should be seen as an opportunity,' finalised Reid. 'DORA will shore up trust in the industry as a whole, and each of those businesses that work within it are going to contribute to that. I have watched organisations reap the benefits of self-healing applications. Modern technology has the potential to completely revolutionise the way we approach operational resilience.' It is now imperative for financial institutions – both banks and regulated, non-bank financial institutions – to ensure business continuity meets organisational needs in an increasingly volatile global environment.
Associated Press
03-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
CockroachDB 25.2: A Decade of Innovation Continues with Major Performance Gains, Vector Indexing, and Enterprise-Grade Advancements
Delivers >41% performance gains, vector indexing for AI, enhanced security, and compliance-ready features for multi-cloud scale. NEW YORK, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CockroachLabs, a pioneer in cloud-native distributed SQL databases, today announced CockroachDB 25.2, a milestone release marking a decade of transformative innovation. This latest version enhances CockroachDB's strengths: performance, flexibility, and security to help businesses scale with confidence in an increasingly AI-driven, multi-cloud world. As organizations modernize their infrastructure for an AI-driven, multi-cloud future, they must also address growing pressure to reduce costs, ensure uptime, and comply with evolving regulatory standards. According to the company's State of Resilience 2025report, 93% of technology leaders cite concerns over the financial impact of outages, with average annual losses exceeding $222,000. At the same time, 79% report they are not yet prepared to meet new regulations such as DORA and NIS2. CockroachDB 25.2 addresses these challenges with significant improvements in scalability, performance, and security—enabling enterprises to modernize with confidence and scale globally without compromising availability or compliance. To further validate this resilience, Cockroach Labs introduced the Performance Under Adversity benchmark. Unlike traditional tests conducted in ideal conditions, this benchmark simulates real-world failure scenarios—including disk stalls, node crashes, regional outages, and more—and demonstrates CockroachDB's ability to deliver consistent throughput and sub-second latency under adverse conditions. AI-Ready with Vector Indexing: Empowering the Future of AI and Machine Learning As AI reshapes industries, the need for high-performance, scalable databases has surged. CockroachDB 25.2 addresses this with vector indexing, enabling faster, more accurate searches across large datasets. This allows businesses to seamlessly integrate AI models, accelerate data processing, and enhance real-time decision-making—while leveraging CockroachDB's resilient, distributed architecture. As organizations increasingly rely on AI for efficiency and innovation, our vector indexing helps manage and query complex data sets at scale while keeping the index fresh and without degrading search results, making CockroachDB a go-to solution for next-gen AI workloads across sectors like healthcare and finance. Performance Gains: 41% Improvement in Efficiency—Scaling with Lower Costs CockroachDB now delivers greater throughput with fewer resources—reducing total cost of ownership while accelerating performance. 25.2 introduces two major optimizations that improve efficiency by 41%, enabling businesses to scale more effectively with less hardware. These aren't just performance enhancements—they offer a strategic advantage, helping organizations scale efficiently without increasing infrastructure spend. This level of scalability is crucial for organizations that need to support global applications, from e-commerce platforms serving millions of users to enterprise systems managing vast amounts of data. As companies increasingly operate in multiple regions, they need a database that can provide resilience, consistency, and high availability across all locations. CockroachDB's ability to handle such massive workloads with seamless performance enables businesses to confidently expand, manage large-scale operations, and maintain reliability as they grow. Whether scaling to support millions of customers or expanding into new regions, CockroachDB 25.2 offers the reliability and performance needed for businesses to thrive in a fast-paced, global digital economy. 'CockroachDB 25.2 delivers the performance, scalability, and security features that organizations need to stay ahead in today's competitive, cloud-driven world,' said Peter Mattis, CTO and Chief Product Officer at Cockroach Labs. 'With this release, we're not only meeting the challenges of modern infrastructure but also paving the way for businesses to innovate with AI, scale globally, and ensure the security and compliance of their data.' Additional Innovations in CockroachDB 25.2: For more information on CockroachDB 25.2, visit About Cockroach Labs Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. The company's clients include Bose, Form3, Hard Rock Digital, Shipt, Fortune 50 global financial institutions, as well as retail and media industry leaders. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Cockroach Labs, Inc.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Cockroach Labs Collaborates with Red Hat on Comprehensive Solution for VM-based Migrations across Hybrid Cloud Environments
The solution enables enterprises to modernize databases and infrastructure on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization—balancing cost, control, and cloud-native innovation NEW YORK, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cockroach Labs, a pioneer and leader of the cloud-native distributed SQL database market with CockroachDB, today announced a strategic collaboration with Red Hat to support CockroachDB on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This effort offers enterprises a more seamless and cost-effective path to modernize their infrastructure while maintaining control over data—whether on-premises, in hybrid environments, or on the cloud. Organizations running VM-based workloads are facing growing financial and operational pressure due to recent changes in the virtualization market—with rising licensing costs and uncertainty around platform direction. As a result, many are urgently exploring alternatives to cut costs and avoid renewed lock-in. But as they evaluate options, it's becoming clear that replacing infrastructure for mission-critical applications and databases can introduce significant risk and complexity. "Large enterprises grappling with VMware-related cost increases are seeking comprehensive solutions that address their entire on-premises stack," said Allen Terleto, VP of Global Partners and Ecosystem at Cockroach Labs. "This includes virtualization, orchestration, application migration, and database modernization—ideally within a unified and cloud-native architecture. With CockroachDB now deployable on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, customers gain the flexibility to modernize on their terms: choosing which workloads move to the cloud and which remain on-premises—without incurring the complexity and overhead of managing fragmented, siloed architectures." While cloud adoption has advanced, on-premises infrastructure remains essential for highly regulated sectors like financial services, healthcare, and government due to compliance, data sovereignty, and deep operational expertise. For these industries, pursuing an all-in cloud strategy to address VM-based migrations is often impractical due to cost, risk, and operational disruption. Instead, a hybrid approach—combining the reliability of on-premises environments with the agility of the cloud—is proving to be the most effective path. CockroachDB now deploys natively on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, enabling distributed scale and resiliency across hybrid cloud environments. This empowers enterprises with a modern, distributed SQL database that evolves alongside their infrastructure. With feature parity to traditional relational databases and automated migration tooling, CockroachDB simplifies the shift from legacy systems not designed for the cloud, reducing both risk and cost compared to conventional lift-and-shift strategies. By leveraging CockroachDB on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, organizations can begin realizing the benefits of a cloud-native database without the need for immediate, large-scale architectural overhauls. This deployment model is already driving value in production environments. "Our team chose CockroachDB deployed on Red Hat OpenShift to orchestrate everything using Kubernetes," said Stephen Boyd, IT Architect, Electrical Training Alliance. "The seamless integration allowed our services to be spun up as needed and closed down when not in use." Together, Cockroach Labs and Red Hat provide a pragmatic and comprehensive path to modernization—enabling enterprises to transition from legacy virtualization platforms with greater confidence, flexibility, and control. "Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides an open, flexible, and more cost-effective path for enterprises to migrate and modernize virtual machines while limiting the potential for production disruption," said Sachin Mullick, Director, Product Management, OpenShift Virtualization and Edge, Red Hat. "CockroachDB supported on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization gives customers more choice in how they modernize operations across the hybrid cloud while still helping them maintain required levels of reliability and performance." To learn more about deploying CockroachDB on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization check out: About Cockroach Labs:Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. The company's clients include Form3, Hard Rock Digital, and Shipt, Fortune 50 global financial institutions as well as retail and media industry leaders. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. Red Hat and OpenShift are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Cockroach Labs, Inc. 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