ARMONK, N.Y., July 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:IBM)
today announced the acquisition of San
Mateo, CA-based Compose, Inc., a privately held company that
provides MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and other
database as a service (DBaaS) offerings targeted at web and mobile
app developers. The acquisition furthers IBM's commitment to
accelerating developer productivity and innovation around open
source and cloud data services. Financial terms were not
disclosed.
The cloud database arena is projected to be worth $14 billion by
2019, and open source databases like MongoDB are a significant part
—and rapidly growing portion —of this sector. Driving this
popularity among developers is the ability to make web and mobile
applications easy to build and grow, without the distraction and
monotony of back-end database and systems administration. Thousands
of clients across a variety of industries, including retail, IoT,
higher education, marketing services and ecommerce have created
over 100,000 databases with Compose.
"Compose's breadth of database offerings will expand IBM's
Bluemix platform for the many app developers seeking
production-ready databases built on open source," said Derek Schoettle, General Manager, IBM Cloud Data
Services. "Compose furthers IBM's commitment to ensuring developers
have access to the right tools for the job by offering the broadest
set of DBaaS service and the flexibility of hybrid cloud
deployment."
IBM's Cloud Data Services offerings are composable, integrated
services for developers that run on the secure, high-performance
IBM Cloud platform, Bluemix, with highly accessible DevOps support
teams. Compose provides IBM with an enhanced framework to deliver
highly sought after, production ready, cloud database services for
developers. IBM's containerized data services approach will further
drive the introduction of new Cloud Data Services offerings.
"By joining IBM, we will have an opportunity to accelerate the
development of our database platform and offer even more services
and support to developer teams," said Kurt
Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Compose. "As developers, we
know how hard it can be to manage databases at scale, which is
exactly why we built Compose –to take that burden off of our
customers and allow them to get back to the engineering they
love."
Companies are eager to leverage new managed database
technologies, but are not always equipped to dedicate the budget
and resources necessary to acquire database administration
expertise. Compose removes the difficulty and risk associated with
setting up, administering, scaling and integrating new DBMS
technologies.
In addition to providing 24x7 monitoring and management by DBaaS
DevOps experts, Compose features:
- "Containerized" DBaaS platform technology –enabling fast
deployment and scaling of popular open source DBaaS services for
customers;
- Auto-scaling with predictable performance;
- Built-in redundancy, backup, failover for uninterrupted DBaaS
service & application uptime;
- Valuable add-ons including Compose Transporter, which helps
developers move data between services like MongoDB and
Elasticsearch for easier application development and to provide a
better end-user experience.
The acquisition of Compose continues IBM's commitment to open
source technology and communities across the entire cloud stack. In
addition to this latest announcement, and the announcement to make
the company's container technology available through Docker last
month, IBM serves as a founding member of The Cloud Foundry and
OpenStack Foundations, a platinum sponsor of the Node.js Foundation
and a sponsor of the Open Container Project.
About Compose
Founded in 2010, Compose offers
auto-scaling, production-ready databases to help software
development teams deploy data services quickly and easily. Compose
currently supports five popular open source databases including
MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL and RethinkDB. Each
database is provisioned in minutes and includes high availability
(HA), failover, and daily backups. In addition, Compose offers
Transporter for moving and syncing data continuously between data
stores —available both as a service and as a free open source
application. More than 3600 companies rely on Compose-hosted
databases for keeping their apps in production 24/7.
For information about how IBM Cloud Data Services is changing
the way services are created for and delivered to developers,
follow us on Twitter at @getdashDB and @IBMcloudant, and visit
www.dashdb.com and www.cloudant.com.
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