Rimini Street has announced that Kakao, a leading internet and mobile messaging company in South Korea, has switched to Rimini Street support for its Oracle Database, Rimini Street reported on Monday.

“Our strategy is to eventually move Kakao’s existing Oracle Database to an open source database such as MySQL, Maria, or PostgreSQL. Since switching to Rimini Street, we have reduced our database maintenance costs significantly, and my team is now free to focus on other initiatives to improve our business, like this database migration,” said Tonny Yi, head of Kakao’s data platform team.

Rimini Street will provide Kakao with premium, ultra-responsive support for its mission-critical Oracle Database instances for a minimum of 15 years from the time the company transitioned to Rimini Street support with no required upgrades.

Kakao has also reported savings of 50 percent in annual support fees. Kakao will also receive an improved level of support for its databases and control of its IT roadmap. The roadmap has more flexibility with its limited resources, enabling them to divert resource savings to more strategic initiatives across the company.

Kakao currently runs a brand and service portfolio, including mobile messaging with Kakao Talk, gaming, music, e-mail, search and news, providing services to thousands of people daily. Rimini Street, as Kakao’s thrid-party support service, will reduce the overall spend for their database support.

“We receive responsive service and expert support from our assigned Primary Support engineer and the team of Rimini Street specialists,” continued Yi.

Rimini Street has provided Kakao a Primary Support Engineer (PSE) who is supported by a team of technical experts with an average of 15 years’ experience in the client’s software environment. Rimini Street engineers will provide support for issues, including support for performance and interoperability issues.

The team will also deliver industry-leading service level agreement of 15-minute response times for critical Priority 1 cases. Rimini Street has provided its clients with uninterrupted support and business continuity, enabled by the company’s globally distributed workforce and its proprietary suite of systems and processes.

“It’s exciting to see Kakao, a company that drives innovation in the mobile internet and messaging space, choose Rimini Street’s support services. By switching to Rimini Street, the Kakao data platform team receives ultra-responsive support for its databases, is no longer reliant on a forced upgrade to retain full support and can execute on its open source transition strategy,” said Hyung-wook Kim, regional general manager, Korea, Rimini Street.

About Rimini Street, Inc.

Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI) is a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner. The Company offers premium, ultra-responsive and integrated application management and support services that enable enterprise software licensees to save significant costs, free up resources for innovation and achieve better business outcomes.

Over 2,000 global Fortune 500, midmarket, public sector and other organizations from a broad range of industries rely on Rimini Street as their trusted application enterprise software products and services provider.

An additive manufacturing facility at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center-Division Keyport in Washington has remained operational during the COVID-19 pandemic and created personal protective equipment for local civilian medical workers.

NUWC Keyport said Friday its rapid prototyping team used the 3D printing process in efforts to accelerate the development and production of PPE as well as ship and submarine components.

"Each day the team is able to prototype new designs, develop new manufacturing processes, and deliver PPE hardware," said Bryce Weber, division technology manager at NUWC Keyport's rapid prototyping and fabrication technology division.

Weber added that the work center offers a lot of space between additive manufacturing printers, allowing workers to practice social distancing, and requires team communication to ensure compliance with cleaning protocols.

Michael Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, said focusing more on stock prices and quarterly earnings than research and development could result in the U.S. losing its technological edge over China, FCW reported Friday.

"You're never going to win in a technology race with defense,” Brown said Friday at a Brookings Institution virtual event. “What do we do to reform our business thinking and our capital markets to move away from short-term thinking to be more long-term oriented.”

He said the U.S. government should provide incentives to U.S. firms to encourage them to focus on R&D efforts and long-term investments and such incentives could be in the form of tax advantages.

Suzette Kent, federal chief information officer and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, told Federal News Network in an interview published Friday that the designation of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as a center for cyber shared services recognizes DHS’ role in overseeing the marketplace for new security offerings.

“It formalizes their role to ensure that the products and services that we use across the entire federal government in this space not only meet standards, but they are part of a customer-centric dialogue,” Kent told the network’s Ask the CIO program. “So it’s important for both clarity and pace. We expect we will be able to bring new services to the marketplace faster and have more visibility to meeting standards.”

The move is part of the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) updated shared services strategy, which directs the government to come up with interagency standards and priorities for shared services and designate agencies to serve as quality service management offices.

DHS will start offering vulnerability management standardization, security operations center standardization, domain name service resolver service as a QSMO. Kent said the QSMO could help agencies gain access to industry or federal shared services or implement tools that could help them comply with the standards.

“This construct will actually help ensure when we do offer something in the marketplace, it has been fully vetted against those standards and agencies can move quickly and with confidence for that reason,” she added.

The National Space Council, an office handling space-related policy, is talking with various agencies on policy to mitigate orbital debris, Space News reported Thursday.

This engagement responds to the Federal Communications Commission's proposal of requirements that include large fees satellite operators would have to pay for potential damages and failure to appropriately dispose of decommissioned satellites.

FCC now considers putting off and reviewing majority of these proposed regulations.

Michael O’Rielly, FCC commissioner, said in an April 23 meeting that U.S. regulations must not impose more expenses compared to those of other countries.

Scott Pace, the space council's executive secretary, said he accepts FCC's move to reconsider the regulations of concern.

“I think the commission is interested in trying to make sure that we don’t place undue burdens, but that at the same time we provide incentives for ensuring that the space environment remains sustainable for the long term,” Pace stated.