Basho Unveils Riak CS 1.4 Standard and Enterprise ($4,000/Year/Node for 101+ Nodes)

Basho
Technologies Inc. announced the availability of Riak CS 1.4 and Riak CS 1.4 Enterprise.

This continues the company’s commitment to
provide cloud storage software that is highly available by design, and compatible
with industry cloud standards. It is used by organizations worldwide to power
their public and private clouds.

This version introduces formal integration
with OpenStack, provides enhanced performance and manageability, includes
community requests, and improves performance at scale. The enterprise version
boosts the performance of multi-data center replication by allowing for
concurrent channels, so the full capacity of the network and cluster size can
scale the performance to available resources.

"Riak
CS is seeing impressive market adoption, especially from service providers
looking to increase their portfolio offering with large object storage,"
said Greg Collins, president and CEO, Basho. "This release continues our commitment of
providing simple and accessible cloud storage for a broad range of cloud
computing platforms and use cases. With the addition of OpenStack integration
and significant performance improvements, Riak CS 1.4 also appeals strongly to
enterprises building their own object storage or adopting a hybrid-cloud
deployment methodology."

"Object
storage is quickly becoming a foundational platform capability for cloud
providers and large enterprises to meet the rapidly growing surge in demand to
store more data," says Simon Robinson, VP of storage research, 451
Research. "Riak CS continues to see
greater adoption in public and private clouds. Riak CS’s tighter integration with OpenStack is certain to be another
catalyst for Basho. OpenStack users gain a very capable storage alternative to
Swift, OpenStack’s object storage platform."

"Yahoo!
JAPAN
has been using Riak CS for over a year to power our public cloud storage
platform," said Shingo Saito, cloud product manager, Yahoo! Japan. "Riak CS is also used by LOHACO, for its on-line shopping platform,
operated by ASKUL Corporation, Yahoo! JAPAN
partner, and by some of the largest companies in Japan. We are excited to continue
to partner with Basho and look forward to deploying Riak CS 1.4."

"Redapt
is excited to work with Basho to help customers address distributed object
storage needs within OpenStack environments," said David Cantu,
co-founder and COO, Redapt Inc..
"Redapt’s mission is to enable
leading service providers, enterprises, and web centric companies with the
ability to achieve the numerous economic and operational benefits of private
cloud computing. With the Riak 1.4 announcement, Basho is helping us deliver on
that commitment for our customers with proven distributed cloud storage
software that is now more finely tuned for integration with OpenStack."

"Businesses
have a range of object storage needs and our partnership with Basho helps us
easily address even the most complex scenarios in our public cloud,"
said Jared Wray, CTO, Tier 3 Inc. "Our global data center footprint enables
businesses of all sizes to adopt object storage for a variety of use cases
including: cloud-native and cross-device apps, backups and archives, and secure
file transfer. The improved performance and simplified operations available
with Riak CS 1.4 continue to help our customers simply scale to meet
operational demand."

Feature
additions include:

• Built-in
  integration with OpenStack. The software introduces
  support for OpenStack’s Keystone authentication service and introduces
  compatibility with OpenStack Object Storage API.

• Improved
  performance of large bucket query operations.
  Secondary indexing pagination, introduced allows for performance improvements
  of large bucket query requests.

• Simplified
  operational management. Improvements to the User
  API allow operators greater flexibility in managing user information, while
  also improving the agility and responsiveness of Riak CS.

• Decreased
  bandwidth for object block retrieval. Changes to
  how it handles object block retrieval will decrease intracluster bandwidth by
  67% and improve download performance.

Riak
CS 1.4 Enterprise
adds the following:

• Enhanced
  multi-site replication performance. It allows for
  concurrent channels of communication between clusters, which enhances the
  capability for replication by taking advantage of all the network’s available resources.

Riak CS 1.4 is available for Debian,
Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Mac, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, SmartOS, and Solaris.