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Derek Schoettle: IBM Eyes Cloud Data Service Expansion Through Compose Purchase


cloudITIBM (NYSE: IBM) has acquired database-as-a-service company Compose for an undisclosed amount to help further the development of cloud-based mobile and web applications.

“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, ” Derek Schoettle, general manager of IBM’s cloud data services business, said Thursday.

San Mateo, California-based Compose has helped create more than 100, 000 databases in the retail, higher education, marketing, e-commerce and technology industries through the company’s MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL platforms, IBM said.

Compose also built a containerized DBaaS technology to support open source data service deployments and the Transporter platform for developers to move files between MongoDB and Elasticsearch.

IBM backs the Open Container Project and the Node.js Foundation and is a founding member of the The Cloud Foundry and OpenStack Foundations.

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