Focus on large data IBM acquisition Dbaas service provider Cloudant

"Tenkine Server channel March 12 News" Recently, IBM announced the formal acquisition of the database is the service Dbaas provider Cloudant. Cloudant's addition extends IBM's ability in large data and analytics, cloud computing and mobile. The Cloudant Dbaas platform uses the SoftLayer cloud computing platform to create a global data transmission network that expands applications and is readily available.

With NoSQL databases increasingly popular with developers, JSON has become a major NoSQL database technology for mobile and Web application developers. The Cloudant JSON data Service provides an application programming interface API that is easier to use than similar products, allowing mobile and web developers to quickly and easily store and access explosive-growing mobile data.

IBM will also provide tools and resources for cloudant developers to build, test, deploy, and extend cloud applications to further enhance IBM's cloud solutions. Cloudant is currently running on IBM's SoftLayer platform. The pairing of Cloudant and SoftLayer is clearly IBM's intention, with SoftLayer's cloud platform, Cloudant's Dbaas service will gain strong business support. At the same time, IBM MobileFirst solutions are consolidated with Cloudant, allowing developers who use worklight to quickly create scalable applications, including a wide variety of structured and unstructured data.

The acquisition of Cloudant marks IBM's continued investment in cloud computing and large data, especially in large data and data analysis. In addition to investment in research and development, IBM has invested more than 17 billion dollars in this area and completed more than 30 acquisitions, the amount of investment has exceeded expectations, the initial 16 billion dollars is 2015 target, then IBM will increase the budget to 20 billion dollars.

Starting next quarter, SoftLayer integrates IBM power BAE into their cloud infrastructure. This is also the first platform built for large data on power Bae, and will also be the solution for IBM Watson, using power Bae's high performance for data analysis solutions.

There are signs that IBM is building rich cloud computing and large data services around the SoftLayer platform. IBM spent 2 billion on the 2013 acquisition of cloud computing infrastructure provider SoftLayer, while SoftLayer's data center resources were the most valued by IBM.

IBM believes that SoftLayer's bare-metal cloud services capabilities are the difference between SoftLayer and other cloud providers and will be key to IBM's competition with Amazon AWS and other cloud service providers. IBM merged SoftLayer and IBM SmartCloud into a new division of the global platform, and in December 2013 again invested 12 of billions of dollars in building 15 new cloud services data centers around the world, and plans to expand to the Middle East and Africa in 2015. These data centers will effectively enhance the capabilities and geographic coverage of IBM's cloud services.

In addition, IBM plans to provide a OpenStack API on the SoftLayer cloud service architecture so that users can access the cloud services of SoftLayer using industry-standard OpenStack interfaces. OpenStack will be a key part of IBM's cloud computing strategy, through which the private cloud and public cloud can be provided to users through a standardized interface, providing customers with a multitude of public, private and mixed cloud options.

IBM says it will push the integration of the enterprise software portfolio into the SoftLayer. It is reported that the company has launched a cloud computing strategy called Bluemix, designed to allow developers to use their existing software portfolio to develop applications, in which the Watson Cognitive computing platform, marketing, business and security software platform, including the software portfolio has been implemented at the cloud level.

The Bluemix project was created for the Amazon Cloud development platform Elastic Beanstalk and Salesforce.com PAAs platform Heroku. IBM expects 2014 revenue from cloud computing to reach $7 billion trillion. These initiatives are designed to strengthen IBM's cloud computing capabilities and enhance its ability to compete head-on with Amazon's Web services.

IBM CEO Rometty has expressed the hope that Watson computer 10 years of annual revenue can reach 10 billion U.S. dollars. Gartner says intelligent consulting services driven by Watson will get most of the market and demand will grow. The Watson platform will also be taken over by SoftLayer. As part of the service cloud platform, IBM will provide Watson API Developer toolkit. Developers and software vendors can use the powerful knowledge processing capabilities of the cloud version of Watson to develop applications that answer any customer questions.

After selling the x86 server product line to Lenovo, IBM has focused on developing high-end consulting services such as cloud computing and big data. Entering the 2014, IBM's move to integrate its own software business closely around the SoftLayer platform is accelerating. With IBM's rich software offerings and the SoftLayer platform, IBM's layout of cloud computing and large data markets has been rolled out.