January 14, 2014
Today, we announced our newly expanded product portfolio. We have added many new offerings for both Riak and Riak CS to better meet the needs of our growing user base. You can check out prices and what’s been added here.
An Inside Look
In 2009, Riak first open sourced Riak. That decision has driven our culture, our development process, our business model, and – in large part – our current success. The Riak team strongly believes that open source drives adoption (a concept discussed at length in Stephen O’Grady’s book, The New Kingmakers). In addition to being a favorite of start-ups, open source continues to attract more and more IT organizations, enterprise architects, and CIOs.
Riak support for Riak and Riak CS open source users is at the heart of this expanded product portfolio. Since launching Riak 1.0 just over two years ago, providing guaranteed support for non commercial-software users has been a topic of much discussion within Riak. As a distributed database, Riak is built for mission-critical applications where any downtime is not tolerable, revenue is often on the line, and a bulletproof, low-latency customer experience is absolutely required.
Our Enterprise customers love our support. Fortune 500 customers that put Riak into production never leave Riak. Our front-line Client Services Engineers are all full-stack engineers who resolve issues directly. In 2013, Riak’s average time to first respond to an Urgent ticket was 11 minutes. The team also handled over 2,000 customer requests that ranged from Riak configuration questions and performance tuning, to application design and full-stack inquiries. Some recent examples of customer praise:
Scott Densmore with CenturyLink
Loving the support from @basho! These guys are awesome!
— Scott Densmore (@scottdensmore) December 27, 2013
Brian Akins at Turner Broadcasting
Huge shout out to @basho for saving our bacon
— Brian Akins (@bakins) October 17, 2013
In addition to our Enterprise customers, we also have a fast-growing community of users that are in different stages of their software development lifecycle. Our Enterprise level of support (24×7) may not always be necessary. Many early-stage users simply do not yet require the advanced features of Riak Enterprise and Riak CS Enterprise, such as Multi-Datacenter Replication.
As Riak has transitioned from start-up to growth stage, we’ve continued to evaluate how we can continue the ultra-high support experience our Enterprise customers have come to rely on, while expanding support to other users. This expanded product portfolio allows us to do both.
The Finer Details of the New Portfolio
For both Riak and Riak CS, we now offer four levels of service: Starter, Basic, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus. All of these options combine the built-in benefits of open source Riak and Riak CS with Riak engineering support, providing access to our global team of Client Services Engineers for assistance.
All tiers offer online ticket tracking for issues and Enterprise and Enterprise Plus also offer emergency patches. SLAs are available for guaranteed ticket response by a Riak engineer:
- 12-hour guarantee for Starter
- 1-hour guarantee for Basic
- 30-minute guarantee for Enterprise and Enterprise Plus
- Enterprise and Enterprise Plus also offer a continuous support availability option during customer special events
Finally, as with Riak Enterprise and Riak CS Enterprise in the past, both Enterprise and Enterprise Plus include Multi-Datacenter Replication (which also enables cluster-to-cluster replication for secondary workloads), reduced replicas at secondary sites for more efficient storage, and SNMP and JMX Support. Enterprise Plus adds a Riak baseline and annual health check, which provides added Riak assurance and ensures long-term platform stability and performance. All Enterprise offerings include a commercial license – providing more flexible permitted usage.
Contact us to get started with these new Riak and Riak CS product tiers.
