February 19, 2014
Riak is excited to announce that Yahoo! JAPAN has launched its new cloud storage service platform for the enterprise market in Japan, powered by Riak CS. Yahoo! JAPAN is the one of the most comprehensive web portals and the most popular search engine in Japan, surpassing Google.
Riak CS is Riak’s cloud storage software that combines Amazon-class economics with the ability to customize and extend. It is built on Riak, Riak’s distributed database that is highly efficient at storing and retrieving objects, even under extreme usage or failure scenarios. For extensibility, Riak CS adds compatibility with the Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift API.
Yahoo! JAPAN is pushing hard to be number one in transaction value across the Japanese e-commerce marketplace. LOHACO, a popular internet shopping site operated by ASKUL Corporation, has been using Riak’s Riak CS solution via Yahoo! JAPAN as backend storage for almost a year. Riak CS has proven to be a very stable system for LOHACO’s needs.
“Enterprises require storage services that are cost-effective, reliable, and scalable. Yahoo! JAPAN has been able to create a cloud storage solution to meet these needs, as well as deliver access to our large networks and server infrastructure, by developing on Riak and Riak CS,” said Shingo Saito, Cloud Product Manager at Yahoo! JAPAN. “Our partnership with Riak allows us to continue to build features that are beneficial to major enterprises and constantly improve our Cloud Storage Service by integrating with Riak, Riak CS, and future products from Riak.”
Riak is proud of Yahoo! JAPAN’s cloud service. We are excited to be a part of this great milestone.
