AWS Superstars Join Forces: REAN Cloud Buys 47Lining To Gain Big Data, Machine Learning Expertise

Fast-growing Amazon Web Services solutions provider REAN Cloud has purchased 47Lining to strengthen its capability around creating dashboards and reporting. The Herndon, Va.-based company, No. 459 on the CRN Solution Provider, said acquiring Niwot, Colo.-based 47Lining will bridge a technical competency gap, enabling REAN to move up the chain in the decision-making process, according to Sri Vasireddy, a REAN managing partner. "We needed an anchor to position ourselves in that space," Vasireddy told CRN. "Amazon trusts them like they trusted us in our earlier days." Although 47Lining has just 20 employees, Vasireddy said AWS isn't afraid of presenting them to larger enterprises given their expertise around big data analytics, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Nineteen of 47Lining's 20 employees are engineers, most of whom bring years of experience and deep domain expertise to the table, according to Dan Connolly, EVP of Rean's customer business group.