PalominoDB announced a strategic partnership with Riak Technologies, creators of Riak, to provide enhanced operational support for customers managing Riak clusters.
LAS VEGAS, NV and CAMBRIDGE, MA – July 25, 2012 – PalominoDB, the boutique database operations and engineering consultancy, announced a strategic partnership with Riak Technologies, creators of Riak, the widely-used open-source, distributed database and Riak CS, multi-tenant, cloud storage software, in order to provide enhanced operational support for customers managing Riak clusters.
“Our partnership with Palomino extends Riak’s own support and services with 24×7 monitoring and access to an additional pool of highly-skilled, multi-faceted support resources that are designed to complement webops and devops organizations,” said Mark Phillips, Director of Community and Developer Evangelism at Riak Technologies. “We are pleased to be able to endorse the operational excellence Palomino offers customers in all areas of database support and management, and to extend that to our broader Riak community. Palomino is a great addition to the Riak ecosystem.”
“We’re excited about this partnership for a number of reasons,” explained Palomino owner and CEO Laine Campbell. “Our commitment to best-in-class technologies and championing open-source database solutions has led us to Riak again and again. Formalizing the partnership allows our team to access the extensive knowledge and resources of the Riak team to bolster our own expertise, and to collaborate closely with Riak as they continue to innovate and grow.”
About PalominoDB
For startups and established companies of all sizes, Palomino provides ongoing operational support and professional expertise in database architecture, performance and scale. With a focus on open-source and other best-in-class software components, and extensive experience in all major and emerging database technologies, Palomino engages with customers to develop custom, cost-effective projects and long-term support contracts in areas from system design to automation to business intelligence and more. Palomino is renowned for an emphasis on transparency, communication and responsiveness, as well as providing operational excellence for leading companies including Zappos, Chegg, Technorati, Slideshare, SendGrid and Zendesk. For more information, please visit www.palominodb.com.
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 available open source 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.
