New Global Cluster and Global Endpoint capabilities deliver automated failover with near-zero downtime for enterprise AI applications

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zilliz, the company behind Milvus, the world’s most widely adopted open-source vector database, today announced native cross-region disaster recovery for Zilliz Cloud, making it the only vector database to offer automated cross-region failover with near-zero data loss and sub-60-second recovery times.

Recent high-profile cloud outages — including simultaneous AWS region failures in the Middle East, a 14.5-hour Azure outage, and cascading infrastructure incidents costing Fortune 500 companies billions — have exposed a critical gap in AI infrastructure resilience. With nearly 60% of employees now relying on AI-powered workflows daily, region-level failures no longer cause gradual slowdowns; they trigger immediate productivity cliffs across the enterprise.

“Cloud regions will fail — that’s not a prediction, it’s an operational certainty. What matters is whether your AI infrastructure can recover in seconds rather than hours. We built cross-region disaster recovery natively into Zilliz Cloud so that enterprises never have to choose between the performance of vector search and the resilience their applications demand.” said Charles Xie, Founder and CEO at Zilliz.

Why Cross-Region Disaster Recovery Matters for AI

Vector databases power critical enterprise AI workloads — from RAG pipelines and semantic search to recommendation engines and AI agents. Unlike stateless model inference, vector indexes containing hundreds of millions of vectors can take 18+ hours to rebuild, making traditional disaster recovery approaches impractical. Zilliz Cloud’s new capabilities address this with three complementary solutions:

• Global Cluster: Real-time Change Data Capture (CDC) replication between primary and secondary clusters in different regions enables planned switchovers with zero data loss and automatic failover in under 60 seconds.
• Global Endpoint: A single connection endpoint with SRV DNS-based routing automatically reroutes application traffic during failover — requiring no code changes, connection string updates, or application restarts.
• Cross-Region Backup: Cost-effective backup replication to target regions with configurable retention policies, enabling recovery from any backup point for workloads where data durability is the priority.

Beyond disaster recovery, Global Cluster also enables latency optimization by placing replicas closer to end users, zero-downtime region migrations, and compliance with geographic data residency requirements.

Now Available

Cross-region disaster recovery capabilities are now available on Zilliz Cloud dedicated clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Existing customers can activate Global Cluster and Global Endpoint from the Zilliz Cloud console. New users can create a free account with $100 in credits to get started. For enterprise deployments, connect with the Zilliz team.

About Zilliz

Zilliz is the company behind Milvus, the world’s most widely adopted open-source vector database. Zilliz Cloud brings that performance to production with a fully managed, cloud-native platform built for scalable, low-latency vector search and hybrid retrieval. It supports billion-scale workloads with sub-10ms latency, auto-scaling, and optimized indexes for GenAI use cases like semantic search and RAG.

Zilliz is built to make AI not just possible — but practical. With a focus on performance and cost-efficiency, it helps engineering teams move from prototype to production without overprovisioning or complex infrastructure. Over 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on Zilliz to build intelligent applications at scale.

Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Zilliz is backed by leading investors, including Aramco’s Prosperity 7 Ventures, Temasek’s Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Trustbridge Partners, and others. Learn more at Zilliz.com.

BOSTON, March 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ELEGOO, a rapidly developing brand in global smart manufacturing, made its debut at PAX East, marking a major milestone as the brand steps onto one of the world’s most influential gaming stages. At the show, ELEGOO brought an interactive, hands-on 3D printing experience to attendees—bridging digital creativity and physical making like never before.

At the heart of ELEGOO’s booth is the first appearance of the Centauri Carbon 2 Combo at a major in-person exhibition. Positioned as a family-friendly multicolor desktop 3D printer, it is presented alongside ELEGOO’s flagship lineup, including the Saturn 4 Ultra 16K and the Centauri Carbon.

Creator-Led Experiences and Live Cosplay Interaction

Throughout the event, ELEGOO hosted popular creators and influencers who appeared on-site wearing 3D-printed gear and cosplay accessories. They engaged with fans, shared behind-the-scenes stories from their 3D printing journeys, and showcased how ELEGOO printers enable the creation of highly detailed, functional, and artistic models.

Hands-On 3D Printing Demonstrations

Attendees got up close with ELEGOO’s technology through live, hands-on demonstrations. The booth features real-time printing sessions, allowing visitors to observe the full workflow—from slicing to finished output—and gain a deeper understanding of how intuitive and user-friendly modern 3D printing can be.

Interactive Rewards and Exclusive Giveaways

Visitors who stop by the booth participated in interactive activities, including check-ins and surveys, for a chance to receive limited-edition branded merchandise and finely crafted 3D-printed models. Participants also gained access to exclusive PAX East coupons, reinforcing ELEGOO’s commitment to making advanced technology more accessible to a broader audience.

Where Gaming Meets 3D Printing

Highlighting the synergy between gaming and maker culture, ELEGOO showcased 3D-printed items inspired by iconic gaming IPs like Minecraft. These display pieces serve as both photo opportunities and proof-of-concept for how fans can bring digital worlds into physical reality through 3D printing.

By blending interactive storytelling, creator engagement, and hands-on exploration, ELEGOO’s presence at PAX East underscores its mission to provide unique and smart creation spaces for diverse consumers to enhance personalized experience.

About ELEGOO

Founded in 2015, ELEGOO is a rapidly developing brand in the global smart manufacturing industry, specializing in R&D, manufacturing, and sales of consumer-grade 3D printers, laser engravers, STEM kits, and other smart technology products. Located in Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of China, the company has sold millions of products across more than 150 countries and regions. In 2025, the company’s total sales revenue surpassed 300 million USD, with more than 1000 employees and over 430,000 square meters of office and manufacturing area. With a focus on programming and 3D printing technology, ELEGOO provides unique and smart creation spaces for diverse consumers to enhance personalized experiences.

For more information, please visit Elegoo and social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, TikTok, Discord and Reddit.

SHANGHAI, March 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As large language models rapidly enter enterprise environments, AI is evolving from Copilot-style assistance tools into agentic systems capable of understanding business objectives and continuously executing tasks. Tezign has officially launched its enterprise agent system GEA (Generative Enterprise Agent) and introduced a new enterprise Agentic AI paradigm centered on the System of Context as its core infrastructure—shifting AI from single-response generation toward proactive execution across real business workflows.

Unlike traditional generative AI systems that rely primarily on prompt-driven interactions, GEA uses enterprise context as the foundation for reasoning. This enables AI to understand brand guidelines, historical decision logic, customer assets, and operational processes, allowing it to participate in continuous, cross-functional business execution.
Agentic AI for business is emerging as a new paradigm distinct from foundation models alone—one that orchestrates models, tools, and contextual knowledge to reason over business goals and execute actions, rather than merely generating responses.

GEA is built on Tezign’s proprietary four-layer enterprise agent architecture:

• Intent Layer
• Orchestration Layer
• Agent Skills Layer
• Context Layer

The Intent Layer translates business objectives into structured execution paths, allowing the system to operate based on organizational goals rather than prompts.

The Orchestration Layer, powered by Tezign’s proprietary Creative Reasoning Model, performs task decomposition, multi-path reasoning, and model routing across more than 30 foundation models to dynamically determine optimal execution strategies. Unlike conventional language models optimized for convergent responses, the Creative Reasoning Model enables divergent reasoning across multiple strategy paths—supporting continuous exploration and optimization in complex enterprise decision scenarios.

The Agent Skills Layer provides more than 400 callable skill modules that transform enterprise workflows into reusable execution capabilities.

The Context Layer, built on the enterprise Context System, establishes a unified single source of truth that supports consistent reasoning and execution across all agents.

At the execution layer, GEA introduces GEA Claw as its Proactive Agent engine, enabling agents to continuously monitor internal and external business signals and automatically trigger next-step actions within defined operational boundaries. Unlike general-purpose agents designed for one-off operations, GEA Claw can dynamically leverage enterprise context systems, research assets, and skill modules to continuously advance strategy generation, content production, and decision optimization—allowing enterprises to operate a 24/7 agent execution network for the first time.

The foundational infrastructure supporting this capability is the System of Context. Through semantic recognition, structured indexing, and dynamic retrieval mechanisms, the system transforms brand assets, product knowledge, customer insights, project history, and decision logic—traditionally stored for human interpretation—into AI-native contextual networks accessible by agents. Combined with permission control and progressive context disclosure mechanisms, the System of Context ensures both enterprise-level security and operational efficiency, enabling all agents to reason and act on a shared organizational knowledge foundation.

To support enterprise transformation in the Agentic AI era, Tezign has established three core strategic offerings across technology, business, and organizational layers:

• At the technology layer, Tezign provides GEA (Generative Enterprise Agent) as enterprise agent infrastructure;
• At the business layer, Tezign delivers AI Fullstack solutions designed for real operational deployment across enterprise workflows;
• At the organizational layer, Tezign introduces ABC+ (AI Builders & Creators +) to help enterprises upgrade talent structures and collaboration models for the agent-driven workplace.

Together, these offerings form a complete implementation framework for enterprise-scale Agentic AI adoption.

Built on the GEA architecture, Tezign has developed four domain-level enterprise agent systems covering critical operational workflows:

• Insight & Research GEA
• Content Ops & Distribution GEA
• Design & Creation GEA
• Product R&D GEA

These systems support consumer insight generation, content production and distribution, brand design system construction, and product innovation decision-making—transforming agent capabilities from isolated tools into cross-functional enterprise collaboration systems.

GEA has already been deployed across more than 180 global enterprise customers, including over 60 Fortune Global 500 companies.

As enterprise software shifts from workflow systems toward reasoning systems, the competitive frontier of AI is moving from model capability to contextual capability. The launch of GEA marks the transition of enterprise AI from the Copilot stage to the Proactive Agent stage, signaling a shift in which intelligent agents evolve from assistant tools into execution layers embedded directly within business operations.

Enterprise agent systems are now emerging as a new generation of infrastructure connecting organizational knowledge, operational workflows, and execution capabilities.

HONG KONG, March 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Softcare Limited (2698.HK), a leading hygiene products manufacturer focused on emerging markets, is reinforcing its expansion strategy and growing impact across Africa and Latin America, following the recent release of its 2025 annual results.

At the annual results presentation, the company reported total revenue of USD 567.4 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 24.9%, and profit for the year of USD 121. 2 million, up 27.4% year-on-year.

Growth was broad-based across regions, with East Africa revenue rising by 23.9% to USD 256.1 million, and West Africa increasing by 18.4% to USD 230.9 million. Meanwhile, Latin America continued to scale rapidly, with revenue surging by 134.3% year-on-year to USD 22.0 million, highlighting its emergence as a potential growth engine.

Building on a year of solid performance, Softcare continues to deepen its presence in high-growth regions where favorable demographics and rising consumption are driving long-term demand for hygiene products.  

Expanding Across High-Growth Emerging Markets

Softcare’s sanitary pads and baby diaper products have achieved leading sales positions across multiple African markets, establishing the Company as an industry leader.

Backed by a strong presence across more than 30 countries, Softcare has built a proven localized operating model through local manufacturing, deep distribution and market-specific strategies.

Leveraging this foundation, the Company is maintaining steady growth across Africa while replicating its successful experience in West and East Africa into Central Africa and Latin America, with Latin America emerging as a potential new growth driver.

Localization and Distribution Drive Accessibility

Localization is central to Softcare’s long-term strategy. By establishing manufacturing facilities within its target markets, the company enhances supply chain efficiency, reduces costs, and ensures faster response to local demand.

In parallel, Softcare continues to strengthen its manufacturing and quality assurance systems. Its production facilities have all obtained ISO certifications, including ISO 9001 (quality management), ISO 14001 (environmental management), and ISO 45001 (occupational health and safety). In addition, its products have been tested and validated by internationally recognized laboratories such as SGS and GALAB, further reinforcing product quality and safety standards.

At the same time, Softcare continues to strengthen its distribution capabilities through deep distribution networks and digital transformation initiatives. By extending its reach from wholesalers to retail endpoints, the company is improving product accessibility and expanding its consumer base.

Driving Social Impact Through Care and Responsibility

Beyond commercial growth, Softcare remains committed to delivering meaningful social impact. The company actively supports women and babies’ health and hygiene awareness through product donations, education programs, and community engagement initiatives.

In Ghana, Softcare has supported government-led Free Sanitary Pad Initiative to improve access to sanitary products for over 2 million schoolgirls across the country, contributing to better health outcomes and supporting continued education. The company has also provided assistance to schools and healthcare institutions across Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon and Senegal, among others.

These efforts have earned Softcare recognition through several consumer trust and brand awards in Africa. In 2025, the company was named Most Trusted Sanitary Pads Brand  and Most Quality Baby Diaper Brand in Tanzania at the Consumer Choice Awards Africa, and received the Most Admired Personal Care Brand -Kenya‘s Best Brands Awards by Brand Africa. It was also honored as Personal Hygiene Brand of the Year in Ghana at the National FMCG Awards 2025, further reinforcing its position as a responsible and trusted brand within local communities.

Management Perspective: A Long-Term Commitment to Consumers in the Emerging Markets

“Softcare’s mission is to make high-quality hygiene products accessible to consumers in emerging markets,” said Mr. Shen Yanchang, Chairman of Softcare during the annual results presentation. “Our growth is built on a deep understanding of local needs and a long-term commitment to serving our consumers. In Africa, we are deeply committed to serving consumers with sincerity and dedication, with the goal of building a trusted, long-term household brand.”

“As we continue to expand, we will further strengthen our brand, enhance operational capabilities, and invest in sustainable growth to create lasting value for both consumers and stakeholders.”

Looking ahead, Softcare remains confident in the long-term growth potential of emerging markets, driven by favorable demographics, rising incomes and increasing hygiene awareness. The company will continue to invest in brand building, product innovation and distribution capabilities, while strengthening its localized manufacturing footprint, with the aim of delivering sustainable growth and long-term value to both consumers and shareholders.