Cloud Computing: IBM, 10gen partner to bring mobile to the enterprise
June 7, 2013
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Charlie Osbourne.
The rise of mobile applications and BYOD schemes has caused a number of headaches for IT professionals in the corporate world. 10gen works with IBM to provide MongoDB cloud images for the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, an enterprise-ready infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The firms have announced a new collaboration to establish a standard for the Global 2000 to more easily embrace mobile computing.
There is a disconnect between rapid scalability of databases used to handle mobile data and the often rigid structures of legacy databases used within the enterprise — the gap that 10gen and IBM hope to bridge. If successful, then businesses will be able to harness new, mobile technology without negative impact on databases which already handle corporate data…
MongoDB, NoSQL database technology, is used to design mobile and web apps and has been downloaded by over four million developers. The standard, which goes beyond IBM’s DB2 product line and the WebSphere eXtreme Scale data grid platform, will make handling mobile and web-based application data easier considering the need to scale depending on workload…
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