IBM on Monday announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps.
«IBM is leading the charge in helping its clients take advantage of big data, cloud and mobile,» said Sean Poulley, vice president, Databases & Data Warehousing, IBM. «Cloudant sits squarely at the nexus of these three key transformational areas and enables clients to rapidly deliver an entirely new level of innovative, engaging and data-rich apps to the marketplace.»