Cloud Strides at MongoDB.local Auckland

Jake McInteer
August 17, 2023 | Updated: September 8, 2023

MongoDB.local Auckland was held earlier this week, and from the testimonies shared by our customers and partners to the announcements made by our global executives one thing is clear: there’s never been a greater need for strong cloud strategies to support data-driven businesses.

Kiwi companies of all sizes, whether serving the New Zealand market or reaching a global audience, are avid users of cloud services and leading technologies such as MongoDB. Recent commitments from Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to build and run cloud regions in New Zealand will unlock a wide array of new use cases, especially when it comes to making it simpler to build and deploy cloud projects that need to meet growing data sovereignty requirements.

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Senior Account Executive Jake McInteer kicking off MongoDB.local Auckland

Speaking at the event, Ben Cefalo (VP of Product Management, MongoDB) further announced MongoDB’s intention to fully support each of the cloud providers’ regions on MongoDB Atlas. This will bring a local presence for MongoDB’s leading cloud database platform which is already being used widely around the world and in New Zealand. It’s a great example of MongoDB’s commitment to meet customers where they are, and our multi-cloud strategy to be available in as many regions around the world as possible.

MongoDB already counts a number of large enterprises as customers in New Zealand, as well as a growing number of public sector customers.

One data sovereignty-sensitive customer is planning to deploy a major system in Microsoft's NZ North cloud region once it opens (slated for next year by Microsoft).

They have been running development and test workloads out of Azure's New South Wales data centre, but are planning for Production go-live in New Zealand due to the sensitive nature of the data. MongoDB's advanced multi-cloud and multi-region features in Atlas have streamlined that department's development lifecycle and helped keep the project on track.

MongoDB has been increasing its capabilities dedicated to the public sector, and we are expecting more exciting projects in this space in the coming years. Having recently completed the IRAP assessment in Australia also brings the added safety net for regulated industries in New Zealand that MongoDB is built for security, resilience and compliance.

MongoDB’s New Zealand customer base also boasts some of New Zealand’s fastest-moving and best startups and is spread right across the country - with LuminPDF down south, Marsello in Wellington, and Figured in Auckland, just to name a few.

At the MongoDB.local Auckland event, there were also presentations from a number of customers such as Canva, Cloudize, and LuminPDF. Michael Pearson (Software Engineer from Canva) presented his team’s challenges and triumphs operating at a massive scale - supporting 110 million monthly active users who collaborate across more than 15 billion designs, a scale very few companies and platforms have reached globally. It’s a great example of how MongoDB Atlas supports businesses as they scale to a global audience.

Photo of Michael Pearson, software engineer from Canva, giving a talk at MongoDB.local Auckland
Michael Pearson, Software Engineer from Canva

We also heard from MongoDB partners such as Microsoft who presented their plans to open the New Zealand North Azure Cloud Region. This was a great example, alongside AWS and GCP’s commitments, of global tech platforms investing in the NZ Tech ecosystem - giant shoulders on which platforms like MongoDB Atlas can build upon.

I also particularly enjoyed Erich Kuba (Founder at Cloudize) presenting on his experience trying to scale a spam filtering business on a relational database technology. His business got so big that it broke his database and ultimately his business failed - it was a pertinent reminder of the criticality of the work software engineers do and the importance that our technology choices take on.

Overall MongoDB.local Auckland was an awesome event, showcasing the best of MongoDB and our community here in New Zealand - we can’t wait to see it back again next year.

Interested in going to a MongoDB.local event? See if one is coming to a city near you!

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We’re pleased to announce that MongoDB has been recognized as a Leader in the recently released Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024. The report—which highlights “Leaders, Strong Performers, Contenders, and Challengers” and is “an assessment of the top vendors in the market”—notes that “MongoDB is an excellent choice for organizations looking to enhance their document and NoSQL platforms with real-time insights by leveraging translytical capabilities.” What are translytical capabilities? So what are translytical capabilities? In short, modern applications use a growing number of data types for transactional, operational, and analytical uses. Developers can silo different data types and workloads into separate systems, but this causes architectural complexity and reduced agility for teams. A better approach—and one that speeds development—is to leverage a single platform that can store and use multiple data types for different purposes. Forrester defines these “translytical data platforms” as “next-generation data solutions built on a single database engine to seamlessly support transactional, operational, and analytical workloads without compromising data integrity, performance, or real-time analytics.” That’s why we built MongoDB Atlas as a developer data platform. It brings data like documents, vectors, streaming, and time-series together in one system so that you can run transactional, operational, and analytics workloads in one place. How Forrester measured translytical capabilities To measure providers, Forrester evaluated 15 of the most significant translytical data platform vendors against 26 criteria. These criteria span current offering and strategy, to market presence. Being recognized as a Leader is based on an organization’s scores in both current offering and strategy categories for criteria like vision and innovation. Forrester gave MongoDB the highest possible scores across nine criteria, including: Multimodel 1 Search Development Tools / API Scale optimization Streaming Platform management Roadmap Adoption Number of customers According to the report, “MongoDB continues to expand its translytical market share by delivering new capabilities that enhance automation, intelligent memory tiering, and multimodel support, including vector, streaming, analytics, and integrated transactions.” “Developers have been telling us for years that they need easy ways to work with all their data in one place,” said Jim Scharf, Chief Technology Officer at MongoDB. “That’s what continues to drive our strategy of making MongoDB Atlas the developer data platform. We’re excited to be recognized as a Leader in the new The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, and we will continue to support our customers’ growing needs for their data.” What are MongoDB customers doing with translytical capabilities? The Forrester report notes that organizations “use MongoDB to support real-time analytics, customer intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and AI applications.” So, let’s look at a few examples in action. Companies like Ignition started using MongoDB just for operational data—but, over time, expanded into using Atlas Vector Search for AI use cases. Meanwhile, Bosch Digital makes their IoT data easier to work with by bringing multiple data sources together in a single platform. And, Keller Williams uses MongoDB Charts to bring their analytics to where their transactional data is, making it faster to gather insights for their product teams. Overall, customers are attracted to MongoDB because of how developer-friendly the platform is, and because it simplifies their lives by bringing their data together. Access your complimentary copy of The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024 here . Interested in starting your own translytical journey? Sign up for a free MongoDB Atlas account today! 1 Multimodel is defined as support for storing and using various data types.

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