December 30, 2013
2013 was a huge year for Riak Technologies and before we dive into 2014, we thought we’d take a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come.
Case Studies
2013 was the year of the Riak User. We love hearing about all the amazing ways companies across various industries are using Riak. This year, we were able to share dozens of exciting case studies. These include:
- Synacor’s TV Everywhere platform
- Enstratius (acquired by Dell)
- Best Buy
- Alert Logic
- Copious
- Datapipe
- Viggle (through OmniTI)
- Bump
- Hibernum
- Boundary
- Qeep
- Shopzilla
- Turner Broadcasting
- Hosted Graphite
- Rovio
- Flywheel
- Customer.io
- Superfeedr
- Gilt Groupe
- Praekelt Foundation
- ooVoo
- Moz
- National Health Service
- JBA
- Temetra
- Kivra
- City Maps
- The Weather Company
- Tapjoy
For even more Riak Users, check out the Users Page.
Releases
We released Riak 1.3, Riak 1.4, and the Technical Preview of Riak 2.0 this year. These releases added such features as Active Anti-Entropy, revamped Riak Control, queryability improvements, Riak Data Types, and much more. Be on the lookout for the general release of Riak 2.0 early next year.
This year we also open sourced Riak CS with the 1.3 release and released Riak CS 1.4. These releases added multi-part upload, Riak CS Control, and integration with OpenStack.
RICON
This year, we expanded RICON, Riak’s distributed systems conference, to both RICON East and RICON West. These were both sold out conferences that featured speakers from bitly, Comcast, Google, Netflix, Salesforce, The Weather Company, Turner Broadcasting, Twitter, and many more.
Partners
We drastically increased the number of Riak partners in 2013. For a full list of partners, check out the Partnerships Page. Some key ones to note include Tokyo Electron Device, SoftLayer, and Seagate.
Community
Our amazing community team hosted over 200 meetups around the world this year. On top of that, they also attended dozens of industry events to spread the word about Riak. Keep an eye on the Events Page to see where we’ll be in 2014.
2013 was a busy year but, with some exciting announcements coming, we look forward to an even busier 2014. Happy New Year!
