Samsung Ventures Makes Strategic Investment in Cloudant
February 7, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Samsung is looking to step up its mobile cloud game. Not gaming apps in this case, but technologies related to global distribution and mobile applications data management. The company that has been giving Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) a run for its money in the smartphone world (not to mention duking it out in court) has made a strategic investment through Samsung Venture Investment Corp. in database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider Cloudant.
Details are a little fuzzy as to how much of an investment Samsung Ventures has made in Cloudant, which has made news recently here on Talkin’ Cloud related to its launch of a NoSQL DBaaS offering on Rackspace and the more recent news of SoftLayer announcing it was using Cloudant NoSQL to power its SoftLayer Message Queue Service…
Of course, Samsung has incredible momentum in the smartphone and tablet mobile device categories. In much of the world, it’s besting Apple’s iPhone, although the iPad still seems to have the numbers to hold onto the tablets crown. That said, as Apple has seen a softening of iPad sales, Samsung’s sales are soaring in the tablet world. Samsung has also made an interesting move into the Chromebooks market and is pushing ahead into the global education market with its new devices…
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