Dr. Kenji Rikitake, IT and Computer Security Expert, Joins Basho
February 6, 2013Basho is excited to announce that Dr. Kenji Rikitake jj1bdx at Twitter) has joined the company and will be based in Basho’s Tokyo Office. As a widely regarded industry expert on...
View ArticleSeven Riak Meetups Happening February 13th
February 6, 2013Basho and our community have a handful of events lined up for February 13th. We have official meetups/group hacks in at least seven cities in the US. We hope to see you next week. If...
View ArticleBasho and Riak at Rubyfuza
February 4, 2013Basho is proud be to be sponsoring Rubyfuzy, happening this week in Cape Town, South Africa. We’ve sponsored and spoke at a few events in Cape Town over the past several years, and Riak...
View ArticleYokozuna Pre-release 0.3.0 Now Available
February 4, 2013Today I’m happy to announce the 3rd pre-release of Yokozuna. It’s light on new features but has some good performance improvements and added robustness. Here are the highlights:Allow...
View ArticleBuilding Retail and eCommerce Services with Riak
January 31, 2013This is the second in a series of blog posts covering Riak for retail and eCommerce platforms. To learn more, join our “Retail on Riak” webcast on Friday, February 8th or download the...
View ArticleRiak on AWS - Deployment Options
January 30, 2013Many teams run Riak in public cloud environments, either as a part of their infrastructure or as the foundation of it. Increasingly, we see enterprises and startups use a hybrid...
View ArticleRiak in Production- Retail and eCommerce Stories
January 29, 2013This is the first in a series of blog posts covering the benefits Riak offers to developers and operators of retail and eCommerce platforms. To learn more, join our “Retail on Riak”...
View ArticleHow Copious Uses Riak for Social Logins on its eCommerce Marketplace
January 28, 2013Copious is a social commerce marketplace that makes it easy for people to buy and sell the things they love. Copious uses social data from Facebook and Twitter to customize the shopping...
View ArticleRiak on Engine Yard
January 25, 2013Today we’re excited to introduce early access of Riak on Engine Yard! You can also learn more on the Engine Yard blog. With Riak on Engine Yard, you can deploy a Riak cluster as simply...
View ArticleAlert Logic Relies on Riak to Support Rapid Growth
January 24, 2013Alert Logic, the industry-leading Security-as-a-Service provider and protector of customer infrastructure and data, uses Riak to help manage their massive amount of data collection...
View ArticleRiak for Retail and eCommerce Platforms
January 22, 2013Traditionally, most retailers have used relational databases to manage their platforms and eCommerce sites. However, with the rapid growth of data and business requirements for high...
View ArticleA Focus on Innovation- Best Buy and Riak
January 22, 2013Best Buy is North America’s top specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software, and appliances. Riak has been an integral part in the...
View ArticleHow Mad Mimi Uses Riak to Power Their Email Marketing Service
January 21, 2013Mad Mimi is an email marketing service that allows users to create, send, and track email campaigns without using templates. With over 100,000 clients, Mad Mimi is storing a large...
View ArticleRiak Powers enStratus Cloud Management Platform
January 15, 2013enStratus is a cloud infrastructure management solution for deploying and managing enterprise-class applications. You can think of enStratus as the enterprise console to cloud computing...
View ArticleBuilding Riak Clusters with AWS CloudFormation
January 15, 2013Today we’re introducing an easier way to build Riak clusters on AWS using CloudFormation. The project, cloudformation-riak, comes with three CloudFormation templates. These templates...
View ArticleRelational to Riak, Part 2- Operational Cost of Scaling
January 14, 2013This is the second in a series of blog posts that discusses a high-level overview of the benefits and tradeoffs of Riak versus traditional relational databases. If this is relevant to...
View ArticleWebcast- Intro to Riak, Thursday January 17
January 10, 2013Join us on Thursday, January 17 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET for an intro to Riak webcast with Shanley Kane, director of product management and Mark Phillips, director of community management....
View ArticleRelational to Riak, Part 1- High Availability
January 10, 2013This is the first in a series of blog posts that discusses a high-level overview of the benefits and tradeoffs of Riak versus traditional relational databases. If this is relevant to...
View ArticleTV Everywhere With Synacor and Riak
January 9, 2013Synacor’s TV Everywhere platform enables cable, satellite, consumer electronics and telco companies to stream content and programming to any device, anytime. TV Everywhere also provides...
View ArticleRiak on VM Depot from MS Open Tech
January 9, 2013Today, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc announced the public preview of VM Depot. Basho is pleased to participate in this launch. Available today, you can quickly deploy a virtual...
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