Toshiba’s GridDB Cloud database service for big data and the IoT is now available globally, providing data infrastructure services to meet the growing global demand for digital transformation (DX) promotion.

The Japanese firm has announced the global launch of GridDB Cloud, its cloud-based service for managing IoT and the high frequency generation of large volumes of big data. The service is now available to users in 26 countries and regions around the world.

Companies around the world are focusing on DX as a way to create business opportunities. The foundation of DX promotion is data. Businesses that collect and analyse data can derive previously unnoticed insights and drive forward business initiatives.

GridDB Cloud offers a cloud-based managed service as core data infrastructure for DX. Until now, the service has been available only in Japan, but Toshiba has responded to growing global DX promotion by bringing GridDB Cloud into international markets.

GridDB Cloud leverages the benefits of cloud services to offer:

• Reduced initial setup times and costs for servers, storage and other components necessary for database operation.
• Reduction of effort and costs associated with database operations.
• Flexible resource expansion to handle increases in data and processing volumes.
• Easy integration with cloud-native applications.

The service is available in 26 countries and regions on Azure Marketplace, Microsoft’s business-facing ecommerce site. The countries are Australia, Canada, Chile, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA and Vietnam.

Toshiba will continue to develop GridDB and GridDB Cloud (www.global.toshiba/ww/products-solutions/ai-iot/griddb/product/griddb-cloud.html) as databases that support the use of IoT and big data to promote DX and the development of cyber-physical systems.

Toshiba’s proprietary GridDB (www.global.toshiba/ww/products-solutions/ai-iot/griddb.html) draws on the company’s expertise in diverse industry verticals. GridDB delivers efficient accumulation of massive volumes of time series data and scale-out performance. It features time series data management, petabyte-scale performance, scalability and reliability, and developer-friendly API for IoT and big data databases.

• Toshiba has brought a cost effective approach to IoT development to the Thai market with the launch of the first IfLink business outside Japan. IfLink (www.global.toshiba/ww/products-solutions/ai-iot/iflink.html) is an open IoT platform service that makes it easier to combine various IoT devices and web services into modules, connect to a cloud-based application platform, and define device operation with if-then (condition-action) rules.