MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay,
Oct. 28 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
(NYSE: IBM) today announced that KONA has deployed a new
cloud-based application development service on IBM Cloud with
SoftLayer, an IBM Company to help it build dynamic mobile
applications that link its customers' back end systems of record
with mobile systems of engagement. After evaluating competitive
infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings from Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Microsoft and Rackspace, KONA selected IBM Cloud to
take advantage of its fast, stable, secure delivery platform and
its massive global cloud footprint with cloud centers in every
major market; enabling it to seamlessly scale as it launches mobile
applications abroad.
According to MarketsandMarkets, the global Backend-as-a-service
(BaaS) market is estimated to grow from $216.5 million in 2012 to $7.7 billion in 2017*. With the release of
Kona Cloud, Kona is working towards
becoming a world-class player in the exploding BaaS market.
Kona Cloud reduces the complexities
of application development by automating the complex processes
involved in server-side programming, reducing the redundancy in
creating backend code blocks and providing ready-to-integrate
features for mobile applications. By building and deploying
applications with Kona Cloud,
developers can focus on developing the front-end features of their
applications and marketing activities.
SoftLayer's flexible cloud infrastructure provides Kona with the
ability to seamlessly scale up and down as demand shifts – a key
capability for Kona as it grows from a startup to a global provider
of IT services. Since getting out of private-beta, KONA Cloud
gathered more than 300 developers and companies that trusted the
platform for their projects, which vary from productivity apps and
e-commerce to social networking projects.
"We knew we had to go with a global cloud provider that could
instantly provide additional resources whenever we needed it," said
Diego Cibils, CEO of KONA.
"SoftLayer provides us with cutting edge technologies and services,
which we use extensively in the product like MongoDB for Data
Storage, for Object Storage, load balancing and service monitoring
among others. We can add resources instantly like memory,
processors and mass storage via a powerful API."
SoftLayer provides Kona with a level of control and transparency
that it needs to build a full range of mobile applications for its
customers quickly and securely. In fact, existing customers of KONA
Cloud develop their apps at least 10 times faster and with fewer
errors than with traditional, on-premise development tools.
"Kona's focus is on enterprise customers, where Softlayer's
level of control and transparency of assets and fault tolerant
network design is a key advantage," said Gerardo Quincke, Cloud
Services SoftLayer Focal Point, IBM Uruguay. "SoftLayer's
flexibility will help Kona start small and grow fast, from small
virtual instances to fully configured and very powerful bare metal
servers, and will provide it with a complete portfolio of solutions
available in all cloud centers distributed all around the
World."
While KONA's development team is based in Uruguay, KONA Cloud was created with a global
vision. With a "Pay as you grow" model, the platform is
flexible for all kinds of customers, allowing them to choose the
most convenient way to use it.
About IBM Cloud Computing
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clients for the hybrid cloud era with integration, control over
data and expertise. IBM Cloud has helped more than 30,000 clients
around the world. Today, IBM has 100+ cloud SaaS solutions,
thousands of experts with deep industry knowledge helping clients
transform and a growing global network of cloud centers. Since
2007, IBM has invested more than $7
billion in 17 acquisitions to accelerate its cloud
initiatives. IBM holds 1,560 cloud patents focused on driving
innovation. In fact, IBM for the 21st consecutive year topped the
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* Cloud Backend-as-a-service (BaaS)/Mobile BaaS (MBaaS) Market –
Global Announcements, Business Models, Technology Roadmap, Forecast
& Analysis (2012-2017).
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