IBM Acquires Cloudant

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is to acquire Cloudant, Inc., a Boston, MA-based database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider.

The amount of the transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, was not disclosed.

Led by CEO Derek Schoettle CTO and Co-Founder Adam Kocoloski, Cloudant provides a cloud-based data service that enables developers across a variety of industries, including gaming, financial services, mobile device manufacturers, online learning, retail and healthcare to load, store, analyze, and distribute operational application data for mobile and web apps.
The company, which is an active participant and contributor to the open source database community Apache CouchDBTM, was backed by Devonshire Investors, Toba Capital, Avalon Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.

The acquisition will allow IBM to extend its Big Data and analytics, cloud computing and mobile offerings and will strengthen its cloud solutions by providing developers with the tools and resources to build, test, deploy and scale cloud apps on a variety of hosting layers.

Following the close, Cloudant will join IBM’s newly formed Information and Analytics Group led by Senior Vice President Bob Picciano, a business unit within the IBM Software & Systems Group.

FinSMEs

25/02/2014

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