{"id":10347,"date":"2014-03-04T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T11:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2014\/mar\/04\/ibm-couches-nosql-strategy-with-cloudant-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T11:21:12","slug":"ibm-couches-nosql-strategy-with-cloudant-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-couches-nosql-strategy-with-cloudant-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM couches NoSQL strategy with Cloudant acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Software &ndash; Information Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IBM has taken another step to ramp up its cloud presence with the acquisition of Cloudant, a five-year-old company that offers a managed NoSQL cloud database. The acquisition adds a data layer to IBM&rsquo;s growing portfolio of web\/mobile application developer-oriented cloud platforms, such as WorkLight, and is a good complement to SoftLayer, the managed cloud service provider that IBM acquired last year.<\/p>\n<p>The core component of the Cloudant data layer is based on CouchDB, one of a group of emerging NoSQL data stores based on the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) document-oriented data format to extend its portfolio of cloud-based development platforms to web\/mobile app developers. It formalizes what was already a growing partnership between Cloudant and SoftLayer, IBM&rsquo;s recently acquired managed cloud platform. But it also signifies that in the growing area of developer-friendly JSON-based NoSQL databases, IBM is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Software &ndash; Information Management<br \/>\nIBM has taken another step to ramp up its cloud presence with the acquisition of Cloudant, a five-year-old company that offers a managed NoSQL cloud database. The acquisition adds a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}