Samsung Invests in Cloudant for Database-as-a-Service

Samsung Ventures has made a strategic investment in Cloudant, a start-up offering a globally distributed database-as-a-service, which distributes application data across a global network of highly secure, high-performance data centers while providing non-stop data access with low-latency for its customers.

Cloudant said its DBaaS managed service helps developers eliminate the delays, costs, and distractions inherent in working with databases while providing scalability, availability, and performance.  The company is based in Boston.

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