| IBM Buys Database for Cache | | Print | |
| Thursday, 20 December 2007 | |
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Sneaking in one last acquisition of the year before the year ends (that is, unless IBM has some surprises up its sleeve next week), IBM has announced that it is buying solidDB, a provider of in-memory database technology, for an undisclosed sum. It marks the company’s 12th acquisition this year.
As this involves a database product, it’s little surprise that the acquisition will be run under IBM Software’s Information Management group. solidDB is hardly new on the block, having been around for at least 15 years. The sweet spot of its market is in the telco sector, where there are obvious reasons to have cached databases. The company claims over 3 million deployments, a number that likely reflects the fact that its caches are deployed throughout dispersed network switching centers. In memory database shave long been considered highly niche products, but with expected emergence of RFID and other embedded applications, which is likely to involve data by the hordes, the market is expected to broaden. However, while RFID has been hyped for over five years, growth in that sector has not yet matched the hype. IBM’s move is not the first among major database players for a piece of this market. Oracle bought its own entry, TimesTen, over two years ago.             |
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