IBM to Purchase Cloudant Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) Provider
March 23, 2014
Grazed from AppDeveloperMagazine. Author: Richard Harris.
IBM has announced an agreement to acquire Cloudant a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider. Cloudant, an active participant and contributor to the open source database community Apache CouchDBTM, offers elastic scalability and innovative mobile device synchronization through its JSON cloud-based data service which allows mobile and web developers to store and access mobile data through an API.
Cloudant complements IBM’s big data and analytics, cloud computing and mobileofferings beyond traditional data management by providing a database-as-a-service that enables clients to simplify and accelerate the development of scalable mobile and web apps. Cloudant also is integral to IBM’s MobileFirst solutions which enables developers who use Worklight, IBM’s mobile app development software, to create scalable apps that include a variety of structured and unstructured data…
The acquisition of Cloudant will also strengthen IBM’s cloud solutions by providing developers with the tools and resources to build, test, deploy and scale cloud apps on a variety of hosting layers. Cloudant runs on the IBM SoftLayer platform and extends IBM’s recent investment in the SoftLayer cloud infrastructure…
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