South Korea's leading Operator, KT has partnered with EnterpriseDB (EDB), a leading provider of enterprise-class Postgres products and database compatibility solutions to launch a new database-as-a-service offering featuring EDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server on KT's uCloud cloud computing environment. KT will offer the service via KT DS, its subsidiary that oversees technology across the company and a long-time EDB customer and proponent of open source PostgreSQL. EDB Postgres Plus powers multiple mission-critical workloads at KT and the company's engineers contribute to the PostgreSQL open source project.
According to a statement by EDB, advancing cloud computing has become a priority in Korea, where the government is officially supporting the expansion of cloud infrastructures with financial and legislative backing. In March 2015, the Korean government passed the Act on Promotion of Cloud Computing and User Protection, known simply as the "Cloud Act", to identify the cloud as key to innovation and operational efficiency while encouraging public agencies to implement cloud services.
Ed Boyajian, CEO of EnterpriseDB
KT was a proving ground in Korea for Postgres Plus to power mission-critical, high-volume workloads. They are now leading enterprise and government users to the future with their uCloud and together we're building on our years of partnership to play a role as cloud computing expands across Korea.
Seunghye Sohn, Senior Vice President of KT DS
Our long and successful partnership with EnterpriseDB with on-premises deployments in our own infrastructure made EDB's Postgres Plus the obvious choice when we selected a cloud partner for our uCloud.
