REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zilliz, the company behind Milvus, the world’s most widely adopted open-source vector database, today announced the general availability of Zilliz Cloud BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) on Microsoft Azure. With this launch, Zilliz Cloud BYOC is now available across AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure—making Zilliz the first managed vector database provider to support BYOC on all three major clouds.

Enterprises building AI applications have long faced a trade-off between managed services that require moving sensitive data outside their security perimeter and self-hosted deployments that demand significant engineering resources. Zilliz Cloud BYOC eliminates this compromise by deploying a fully managed vector database directly inside a customer’s own cloud account—enabling organizations to move faster on AI initiatives without sacrificing data control or compliance.

“The AI infrastructure landscape is at an inflection point. Enterprises need platforms that respect their security, compliance, and multi-cloud realities,” said Charles Xie, Founder and CEO at Zilliz. “With BYOC on every major cloud, we’re removing one of the last barriers to enterprise AI adoption. Organizations no longer have to choose between moving fast and staying in control.”

Why the Azure Launch Matters

The Azure launch completes a deliberate expansion—from AWS to GCP and now to Microsoft Azure. For the many enterprises standardized on Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem, this launch removes the last deployment barrier. Organizations can now run their vector database in the same environment as Azure OpenAI Service and the rest of their Azure AI stack—eliminating cross-cloud data movement, reducing costs, and keeping AI workflows entirely within a single cloud environment.

Azure customers also benefit from full compatibility with their existing enterprise agreements, reserved capacity, and established governance and compliance frameworks. With the official Zilliz Cloud Terraform Provider, teams can automate BYOC deployments and integrate directly into existing infrastructure-as-code workflows—making adoption seamless for organizations already operating at scale on Azure.

What This Means for Enterprises

• Accelerated AI adoption: Deploy production-grade AI search infrastructure in days, not months, without the engineering burden of managing it.
• Data sovereignty and compliance: All data stays within the customer’s own cloud account and jurisdiction, simplifying regulatory requirements.
• Multi-cloud freedom: Teams across different cloud providers can standardize on a single vector database platform without re-platforming.
• Cost transparency: Infrastructure costs flow through existing cloud billing, enterprise agreements, and reserved capacity.

Every BYOC deployment includes the full Zilliz Cloud feature set built on Milvus, along with seamless migration from Pinecone, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Weaviate, or self-hosted Milvus.

Now Available

Zilliz Cloud BYOC is live across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Get started with deployment guides for AWS, GCP, and Azure, or connect with the Zilliz team to discuss your requirements.

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.

Company highlights landmark DSCSA execution, accelerated MINT network growth, and expansion of OPUS Agentic Business Solutions

BOSTON, Feb. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As the life sciences industry enters 2026, navigating regulatory complexity, global volatility, and accelerating AI adoption, TraceLink today reflects on a transformative 2025 and outlines its strategic priorities for scaling agentic orchestration across the global life sciences and healthcare supply chain.

“Digitalization and the operational deployment of AI across one of the world’s most valuable and least automated industries represents a generational opportunity,” said Shabbir Dahod, President and CEO of TraceLink. “We believe the foundation of the agentic enterprise begins with trusted network data, regulated infrastructure, and end-to-end orchestration—and that is exactly what we are building.”

From Regulatory Backbone to Multienterprise Infrastructure

In 2025, TraceLink and its 310,000+ network of customers and trading partners successfully executed one of the most complex regulatory milestones in industry history: the U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) dispenser requirement.

During peak implementation periods, TraceLink:

• Activated approximately 300 new DSCSA live links per week
• Processed billions of serialized EPCIS transaction events
• Maintained enterprise-grade performance and reliability in GxP-regulated environments
• Connected manufacturers, wholesalers, dispensers, and 3PLs across interoperable enterprise systems

TraceLink’s network integrates with leading ERP, WMS, serialization, and pharmacy systems — including SAP, Oracle, Manhattan, and other major enterprise platforms — enabling standardized, compliant transaction exchange across multienterprise workflows.

DSCSA execution did more than achieve compliance. It established a trusted, regulated transaction backbone across the life sciences ecosystem — a foundation customers are now leveraging to expand beyond compliance toward end-to-end digitalization and, ultimately, agentic orchestration of shared supply chain processes.

The TraceLink Network Has Shifted from Connectivity to Execution at Scale

TraceLink’s global network links 310,000+ trading partners, 339,000+ active links, and 1,790+ customers worldwide.

What changed in 2025 was not simply the size of the network — it was how customers are using it to orchestrate shared supply chain outcomes with trading partners.

After more than a decade serving as the trusted backbone for serialization and global compliance, TraceLink is seeing customers broaden their use of the OPUS platform beyond regulatory requirements into commercial, logistics, manufacturing, and multienterprise orchestration workflows.

In 2025, customers expanded their use of the TraceLink network, and TraceLink supported that growth by:

• Delivering 971% year-over-year growth in MINT live links.
• Launching 21 new transaction workflows across transportation, manufacturing, logistics, and commercial operations.
• Activating 16 transaction types across five core business orchestrations, resulting in 182 live transactions running in production.
• Delivering 127 standardized B2B integrations and four new enterprise system integrations, strengthening TraceLink’s growing integration ecosystem and accelerating interoperable, multienterprise process automation across the network.

As a result, the network now supports over 7 billion regulated transactions annually, while increasingly powering business-critical operational flows.

TraceLink refers to this advantage as the “network-is-the-product” model — where every new transaction processed and every trading partner connected strengthens the shared digital infrastructure, continuously reducing the time, cost, and complexity of digitalization for all participants.

Accelerating Adoption of MINT’s 60+ End-to-End Business Transactions to Support All Orchestrations

In 2025, global momentum behind TraceLink’s flagship Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) capability accelerated significantly:

• 59% growth in MINT customers year over year
• 584% growth in MINT link onboarding
• Establishing strategic enterprise partnerships spanning global logistics, multinational pharmaceutical manufacturing, and healthcare distribution.

These milestones reflect increasing strategic demand for network-based orchestration, extending far beyond pure compliance—spanning transportation, logistics, external manufacturing, and commercial transactions. Using these MINT transactions, customers and their partners are pursuing massive improvements in critical shared processes such as forecasting and planning, procure-to-pay, order management, production execution, inventory and materials management, shipment and receipt coordination, financial settlement, recall management, warehouse operations execution, and many more.

OPUS Established the Information Foundation for Agentic Supply Chain Execution

In 2025, TraceLink significantly expanded OPUS (Orchestration Platform for Universal Solutions), strengthening the network data, process standardization, and governed infrastructure required to support future agentic capabilities across the supply chain.

OPUS now supports:

• 60+ standardized transaction types
• 65+ collaborative, multienterprise processes
• 150+ pre-configured, no-code customizable reports and dashboards
• Advanced performance and reliability enhancements for GxP operating environments
• Expanded no-code tools for process orchestration and reporting

Collectively, these advancements established the structured transaction data, cross-enterprise process visibility, and regulated execution environment required for agentic supply chain operations.

With a trusted, auditable information layer now in place across a 310,000+ partner network, TraceLink enters 2026 positioned to activate governed AI agents capable of operating across real, multienterprise workflows.

Industry Recognition and Trust Required in an Industrial No-Code Platform

As TraceLink expanded network depth and enterprise orchestration in 2025, independent industry assessments and global certifications reinforced the company’s position as the most trusted digital platform in life sciences supply chain management.

TraceLink’s reliability, governance, and security leadership were validated through:

• ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 9001 certifications
• SOC 2 Type II and SOC 1 attestations (AICPA)
• CyberVadis Platinum rating, scoring 993/1,000 (Mature)
• Independent third-party audits conducted by Rephine (Rx-360) and Qualifyze
• Recognition as a Leader in IDC’s 2025 MESCCN Vendor Assessment
• More than 10 industry awards, including recognition from Fast Company, SupplyTech Breakthrough, the Merit Awards for Healthcare Innovation, and Supply & Demand Chain Executive.

Scaling Agentic Orchestration in 2026

With the industry’s most trusted compliance infrastructure and the largest connected life sciences network already in place, TraceLink enters 2026 ready to scale agentic orchestration across the global healthcare supply chain. What began as serialization and regulatory compliance is evolving into something far more powerful: a governed, AI-enabled execution layer operating across hundreds of thousands of connected trading partners. As customers expand beyond compliance into multienterprise coordination, TraceLink is embedding OPUS Agents directly into networked transactions and processes—turning trusted data and connected workflows into intelligent, real-time action.

The next phase of digital transformation in life sciences will not be about connectivity alone. It will be about execution. And TraceLink is building the infrastructure to power it.

About TraceLink
TraceLink Inc. is the largest end-to-end intelligent supply chain platform for life sciences and healthcare, enabling end-to-end orchestration by linking more than 291,000 healthcare and life sciences entities through its Business-to-Network Integrate-Once™ network. Leading companies trust TraceLink to deliver complete global digitalization, visibility, and traceability of healthcare products, ensuring that every patient receives the medicines they rely on, safely, securely, and on time. 

In the news release, PadUp Ventures and Unicity Labs Partner to Bring Agentic Commerce Infrastructure to India, issued Feb. 27, 2026 by Unicity Labs over PR Newswire, there was a typo in the original headline, as incorrectly transmitted by PR Newswire. The complete, corrected release follows:

PadUp Ventures and Unicity Labs Partner to Bring Agentic Commerce Infrastructure to India

Agentic AI startup program will enable Indian startups to build AI agent-powered commerce applications on the Unicity Protocol

ZUG, Switzerland, Feb. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Unicity Labs, the company pioneering autonomous agentic marketplaces, and PadUp Ventures, one of India’s leading startup incubators, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of agentic commerce infrastructure across the Indian startup ecosystem.

The Agentic AI startup program from Unicity Labs and PadUp Ventures will enable Indian startups to build AI agent-powered commerce applications on the Unicity Protocol

The partnership will identify, mentor, and fund Indian startups building applications where AI agents can discover, negotiate, and transact autonomously: from SMB sales automation to supply chain coordination to cross-border payments.

The Agentic Commerce Opportunity

As AI agents become capable of acting on behalf of businesses and consumers, they need infrastructure purpose-built for machine-speed commerce. Today’s payment rails and marketplaces were designed for humans, not millions of agents negotiating and settling transactions simultaneously. Traditional blockchains create consensus bottlenecks. Centralized platforms sacrifice trustlessness. Neither scales to the demands of the autonomous economy.

The Unicity Protocol solves this: a novel peer-to-peer blockchain architecture that eliminates the shared ledger entirely, enabling private negotiation, atomic settlement, and throughput exceeding 300 million transactions per second with 1-second finality and fixed microcent fees.

“India has 63 million SMBs, most of them bandwidth-constrained,” said Pankaj Thakar, Partner at PadUp Ventures. “They can’t afford sales teams or 24/7 customer support. AI agents change that equation entirely; but only if the infrastructure exists for agents to transact at scale. That’s what Unicity provides.”

What the Program Includes

PadUp is launching a dedicated Agentic Commerce Track within its acceleration program PrepUp, focused on startups building on the Unicity Protocol. The partnership will drive joint go-to-market efforts targeting Indian SMBs and enterprises, with qualified startups gaining access to investment from both PadUp’s network and Unicity’s ecosystem fund.

• Dedicated Agentic Commerce Track: PadUp will launch a focused acceleration track for startups building on the Unicity Protocol
• Go-to-Market in India: Joint efforts to bring agentic commerce solutions to Indian SMBs and enterprises
• Funding: Qualified startups will have access to investment from both PadUp’s network and Unicity’s ecosystem fund

Why India

India’s startup ecosystem, now the world’s third-largest with over 112,000 recognized startups — is uniquely positioned for agentic commerce adoption. A massive, underserved SMB market, deep developer talent across AI and blockchain, rapidly expanding digital payments infrastructure, and established cross-border trade corridors to the UAE, Southeast Asia, and beyond make it one of the highest-potential markets for the autonomous economy.

“India doesn’t just adopt technology, it scales it,” said Mike Gault, CEO of Unicity Labs. “UPI proved that. We believe Indian founders will build some of the most important agentic commerce applications in the world, and PadUp is exactly the right partner to find and support them.”

About Unicity Labs

Unicity Labs is building the infrastructure for the autonomous agentic internet. The Unicity Protocol replaces shared ledgers with peer-to-peer cryptographic objects, enabling AI agents to discover, transact, and settle autonomously. Founded by veterans of blockchain and cryptography, Unicity Labs has raised $3M in seed funding led by Blockchange Ventures with participation from Outlier Ventures and Tawasal. The company is headquartered in Abu Dhabi. The Unicity Foundation, established in Switzerland, oversees protocol development and community governance.

Learn more  unicity.ai |  https://x.com/unicity_labs  | https://sphere.unicity.network

About PadUp Ventures

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Gurugram, PadUp Ventures is a Virtual Accelerator providing Programmatic Mentoring and Assured Funding that Ensures 500% higher chances of success for Early Stage Technology Startups/ entrepreneurs.  PadUp’s structured “programmatic” mentoring and acceleration programs have helped hundreds of startups achieve success and growth. PadUp has helped over 350 tech companies in India and UAE that have generated value of $200 million USD for their stakeholders. Portfolio companies include IntelleWings, TruScholar, and Olbrain.

Learn more: PadUp.in

NEW YORK and SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Korean skincare brand Purito Seoul has officially announced its new brand slogan, ‘From Soil to Seoul,’ Alongside this declaration, the brand will begin rolling out a series of global marketing initiatives centered around the new message. The first chapter of this expansion will be the ‘Oat Latte Campaign,’ launching with a pop-up event on March 2 in New York City’s West Village.

• ‘From Soil to Seoul‘ — Progressive Skincare Rooted in Essence

CEO Inje Cho of Purito Seoul stated that the newly introduced slogan, ‘From Soil to Seoul‘ encapsulates the brand’s philosophy.

‘Soil’ represents the origin of ingredients—the earth and the purity of nature—while ‘Seoul‘ symbolizes the modern refinement and sophisticated sensibility that complete the formulation process.

Amid ever-changing beauty trends, the brand emphasizes a rigorous philosophy of selecting only what is essential. By transforming naturally derived ingredients into advanced skincare solutions, Purito Seoul aims to highlight its expertise as a progressive skincare brand. Moving beyond the concept of ‘clean beauty,’ the company seeks to establish itself globally through refined ingredient philosophy and scientific formulation, delivering trusted skincare solutions to consumers worldwide.

•  The ‘Oat Latte Campaign’ Begins in New York

CMO Wooseob Oh of Purito Seoul announced that the ‘Oat Latte Campaign’ will serve as the brand’s first global campaign under the new slogan.

Inspired by oats, the campaign visualizes the same sensibility embodied in the brand’s bestselling Oat in Calming Gel Cream through the familiar and comforting object of an “oat latte.” Just as an oat latte conveys softness and warmth, the product gently absorbs into the skin without irritation, delivering soothing comfort to everyday life.

Through this approach, Purito Seoul positions the oat latte not merely as a concept, but as a symbolic medium representing the sensory experience the product delivers to the skin—clearly and intuitively communicating the brand message.

The campaign will officially begin with a pop-up event on March 2 in New York, a global hub of trends and culture and a key gateway for the global expansion of K-beauty. Designed as more than a simple product showcase, the pop-up will offer an immersive, multi-sensory experience of the brand’s philosophy.

Purito Seoul stated, “Through this pop-up, we aim to symbolically declare our renewed brand vision and expand our connection with global consumers and local media through diverse experiential programs and curated content.”

• 2026: Expanding Globally Across Online and Offline Platforms

CEO Inje Cho added that beginning with the Oat Latte Campaign, Purito Seoul plans to sequentially introduce a wide range of brand activities throughout the year, spanning both online and offline channels.

Through digital content campaigns, global social media communications, and experiential offline events, the brand intends to deepen its relationship with consumers while consistently conveying the message of ‘From Soil to Seoul‘.

A brand representative commented, “Purito Seoul is a brand born from a relentless pursuit of essence. Starting with our New York pop-up, we plan to further solidify our philosophy and expertise in the global market.”

The New York pop-up is expected to serve as a significant milestone, signaling Purito Seoul (https://purito.com)’s renewed brand direction and global expansion. From nature’s soil to refinement in Seoul—and now extending that journey onto the world stage—the brand’s next chapter is drawing increasing attention across the industry.