<p>Garantia Data, a company that provides a fast hosted database service that developers can use while building applications, has brought its technology to IBM's growing public cloud service, SoftLayer.</p><p>The news came today in a post on an IBM blog from Garantia Data executive Itamar Haber.</p><p>Developers who want to use Garantia Data's service, Redis Cloud, which is a souped-up version of the open-source in-memory key-value store Redis, don't need to worry about expanding their cloud infrastructure, Haber wrote. "Redis Cloud's fully managed service on SoftLayer performs automated clustering, scaling, data persistence, performance optimization, and failure recovery from a single console, so you get 'hands free' Redis management," he wrote.</p><p>As one of many NoSQL databases that can handle a wide variety of data unlike traditional relational databases, Redis runs at many big companies, including Guardian.co.uk, Digg, StackOverflow, and Flickr. Garantia Data's product makes the database easier to use and more reliable to prevent failures when individual physical servers run into issues.</p><p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/15/developers-can-now-run-a-fast-redis-database-on-ibms-softlayer-cloud/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/16/redis_cloud_softlayer/">Garantia lassoos IBM data-center for Microsoft-beating Redis tech</a> (Register)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dOB8qE1Ioh6THAMmZWaVsxqo6BsiM&authuser=0&ned=us">2 additional articles.</a></p>