Riak CEO Don Rippert will speak on cloud storage adoption at Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – September 17, 2012 – Riak Technologies, the worldwide leader in distributed database technologies, announced today that Riak’s Chief Executive Officer, Don Rippert, is participating in a panel discussion at 451 Research‘s 8th annual North American Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit taking place in Las Vegas from September 18-September 20, 2012. The panel will focus on how service providers can benefit from innovative technologies and approaches that are emerging around cloud storage.
Event and Panel Details
Topic: “Cloud Storage – Show Me the Money!””
Date/Time: Thursday, September 20, 2012 from 1:30pm to 2:10pm ET
Location: Aria Resort and Casino, 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV
Panel Speakers:
- Don Rippert, President and CEO of Riak Technologies
- Simon Anderson, CEO of Dreamhost and co-founder and Chairman of Inktank
- Don Fuller, Senior Director of Sales of CTERA
- Steve Lesem, President and CEO of Mezeo Software
The panel will be moderated by Simon Robinson, Research Vice President of Storage at 451 Research.
Riak is Hiring
Riak is a leader and innovator in the next generation of distributed systems technologies. We are seeking highly motivated and passionate candidates interested in helping grow Riak worldwide. For more information on employment opportunities with Riak, please visit http://bashojobs.theresumator.com/.
About HCTS
The Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit, North America (HCTS NA) is the premier forum for executives in the hosting, cloud computing, datacenter and Internet infrastructure sectors. Corporate leaders, industry visionaries, practitioners, financial professionals and end users come together to learn, network and map out strategies for today’s rapidly changing marketplace. The program at the Summit provides a complete overview of the opportunities and challenges facing the hosting and cloud industries in a power-packed three-day format.
About 451 Research
451 Research, a division of The 451 Group, is focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The company’s analysts provide critical and timely insight into the competitive dynamics of innovation in emerging technology segments. Business value is delivered via daily concise and insightful published research, periodic deeper-dive reports, data tools, market-sizing research, analyst advisory, conferences and events.
Clients of the company – at vendor, investor, service-provider and end-user organizations – rely on 451 Research’s insight to support both strategic and tactical decision-making. 451 Research is headquartered in New York, with offices in key locations, including San Francisco, Washington DC, London, Boston, Seattle, and Denver.
About Riak Technologies
Riak Technologies is the leader in highly-available, distributed database technologies used to power scalable, data-intensive Web, mobile, and e-commerce applications and large cloud computing platforms. Riak customers, including fast-growing Web businesses and large Fortune 500 enterprises, use Riak to implement content delivery platforms and global session stores, to aggregate large amounts of data for logging, search, and analytics, to manage, store and stream unstructured data, and to build scalable cloud computing platforms.
Riak is open source and packages are available for download at http://wiki.riak.com/Riak.html. Riak EnterpriseDS is available with advanced replication, services and 24/7 support. Riak CS enables multi-tenant object storage with advanced reporting and an Amazon S3 compatible API. For more information visit www.riak.com or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/basho.
