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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

To meet this growing demand, data must be always available and easily accessed by massive volumes and networks of users and devices. Cloudant, an active participant and contributor to the open source database community Apache CouchDBTM , delivers high availability, elastic scalability and innovative mobile device synchronization.

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

This fraud claim detection solution stores the claims details in a database managed by the database administrator (DBA) team. Also less obvious is domain 4, where the encryption of data in transit is handled by upstream services, such as reverse proxies and load balancers, an enterprise web portal and a file transfer service.