Basho and Seagate Partner

Basho Technologies, Inc., in distributed systems and cloud storage software, has partnered with Seagate Technology, LLC to help advance the economics and performance potential of cloud architectures.

For the past six months, Basho has worked with Seagate on its development of Kinetic Open Storage platform, providing interoperability and testing with Riak, Basho’s distributed NoSQL database.

The Kinetic platform eliminates the storage server tier of traditional data center architectures by enabling applications to speak directly to the storage system, thereby reducing expenses associated with the acquisition, deployment, and support of hyperscale storage infrastructures. The platform leverages Seagate’s expertise in hardware and software storage systems integrating an open source API and Ethernet connectivity with Seagate HDD technology.

Basho developed Riak to offer businesses a highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed database ensuring low-latency performance that is simple-to-operate – at any scale.Riak is used by thousands of companies including over 30%t of the Fortune 50.

Customers deploying Riak on the Kinetic platform
will see the following benefits:

• An increase in I/O efficiency by removing bottlenecks and optimizing cluster management, data replication, migration, and active multi-data center performance.
• An improvement in customer TCO by up to 50 percent through simplified operations. An additional cost savings by maximizing storage density through reduced power and cooling costs, and receiving potentially savings in cloud data center build outs

To assist with developers seeking to test the Kinetic platform, Basho is making available an eKinetic driver enabling an Erlang-based performance socket connection to the drive. Basho is also providing software that maps a Riak backend to the drive library. Both the eKinetic driver and Riak backend compatibility are available as alpha version software.

“Seagate is bringing device based innovation to the scale-out cloud market in a new and open way,” said Ali Fenn, senior director of advanced storage at Seagate. “This is a fundamentally new architecture – integrating an open source key/ value API and Ethernet connectivity into devices – that represents a vital leap forward in decreasing cloud architecture TCO while improving performance. We are very excited to work with Basho, a leader in distributed object storage software, to bring complete solutions to customers.”

“Basho’s distributed database relies on key/value stores directly attached to servers,” commented Jon Meredith, SVP of engineering, Basho. “Seagate’s kinetic drive simplifies the management of key/value store, filesystem, logical volume manager, RAID controllers and actual devices by replacing them with a simple socket-based network interface. Freeing drives from server chassis enables independent scaling of capacity and throughput of a cloud architecture. We look forward to continuing to work with Seagate to offer customers significant performance and cost benefits when combining Riak on kinetic drive technology.”

Seagate at RICON West
James Hughes, principal technologist from Seagate,was speaking at Basho’s distributed systems conference RICON West held in San Francisco October 29-30. His session is entitled Device Based Innovation to Enable Scale Out Storage. Seagate is a sponsor of RICON.