Basho Riak CS Available Open Source

Basho
Technologies, Inc. announced that Riak CS is available
open source, expanding the access to Basho’s software for developers,
enterprise architects, and IT operations professionals seeking to
build public or private storage clouds.

Basho
also announced the availability of Riak CS v1.3, the third release of
Basho’s cloud storage software.

Riak
CS is a multi-tenant, distributed, S3-compatible cloud storage
platform that enables enterprises and service providers to launch
public or private cloud services. Built on top of Riak, the open
source, distributed database provides horizontal scale, durability
and low operational overhead in a distributed object storage system.
It adds Basho’s multi-datacenter replication technology and is backed
by Basho’s 24×7 support commitments.

It
is used by organizations worldwide including Datapipe, Inc., Deutsche
Vermögensberatung (DVAG), IDC Frontier Inc., Rovio Entertainment Ltd. and Yahoo! JAPAN.

Features
in 1.3:

• Multipart
  Upload. It
  includes a multipart upload capability that lets users store large
  files by uploading parts in parallel

• Enhanced
  Control for Multi-Tenant Environments.
  Introducing
  object access control by source IP enabling operating to restrict
  access to Riak buckets by IP address.

• Support
  for GET range requests. Users
  can retrieve a range of bytes from a single object. This
  functionality is implemented in the ‘Range’
  request header of GET operations.

• Graphical
  Tool for Riak CS. Standalone
  web administration tool for user management.

Basho
Riak CS is available
for download.

Basho
offers a hosted ‘sandbox‘
(Sign-in required)
to test interfacing with a live implementation of Riak CS.

Greg
Collins, president and CEO, Basho, said: "It
has been almost one year since we first released Riak CS. In just 12
months, we have seen rapid adoption by global cloud operators,
telecommunication providers and large enterprises. Over the past
year, Riak CS has gained new advanced capabilities and has been
battle-tested in many of our customers’ and partners’ labs. Our
customers have deployed Riak CS as the object storage engine inside
popular cloud computing platforms, including Apache cloudStack and
OpenStack. Today, by open sourcing Riak CS, we are making it easier
for users to experiment with and test Riak CS, to provide rapid
product feedback, and to contribute to its future capabilities."

Ash
Yamanaka, GM, IDC Frontier and Shingo Saito, cloud product manager,
Yahoo! JAPAN, said: "Basho,
Yahoo! JAPAN and IDC Frontier, a member of Yahoo! JAPAN group, have a
very strong and growing partnership. Today, Yahoo! JAPAN and IDC
Frontier leverage Riak CS Enterprise to offer an S3-compatible public
cloud storage service, as well as dedicated hosting options for our
customers various applications. Yahoo! JAPAN and IDC Frontier are
highly supportive of open source software and we view Basho’s
announcement today as a positive move that will work to accelerate
its ability to innovate and ultimately strengthen our cloud
platform."

Sameer
Dholakia , group VP and GM, Citrix Platforms Group, Citrix, said: "Basho
clearly understands the market power of open source. Since Citrix and
Basho started collaborating last year, we have seen strong enthusiasm
among Citrix cloudPlatform users for Basho’s cloud object storage
solution. Now, cloudStack users have easy access to Riak CS and can
quickly deploy an object storage solution that features multi-tenancy
and S3 compatibility. We believe that many Citrix cloudPlatform
customers will also seek Riak CS Enterprise for its distributed data
capabilities across multiple data centers."

Ed
Laczynski , VP, cloud Strategy and architecture, Datapipe, said: "Datapipe
is very supportive of Basho’s decision to open source portions of
Riak CS. During the last six months, we have deployed Riak CS
Enterprise in Datapipe’s 10gig Stratosphere cloud computing platform.
Riak CS provides Datapipe and its customers with highly available,
low-latency and S3-compatible storage. Datapipe’s customers will
benefit as Basho’s community increasingly experiments, tests and
contributes to Riak CS, ultimately speeding our access to more
capabilities and higher performance."

Simon
Robinson , VP of storage research, 451 Research, said: "The
cloud storage market continues to accelerate as companies seek to
build public and private storage clouds that mirror Amazon Web
Services’ capabilities and economics. Basho, with Riak CS, already
has a proven track record of successful customer public and private
cloud deployments. Now, Basho is demonstrating it has confidence that
the technical and business benefits of Risk CS can be accelerated
even faster via the open source model."

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