Mochi Media Deploys Riak’s Riak™ Distributed Data Store To Become Charter Riak Customer.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Oct. 29 – Riak Technologies, Inc. (www.riak.com) today announced that Bob Ippolito, CTO and co-founder of Mochi Media, the largest online games network, has joined the Advisory Board of Riak Technologies, Inc. Bob is a respected Silicon Valley developer and entrepreneur, author of the popular MochiKit Javascript framework, the MochiWeb web server, and long time open source contributor to the Python programming language. As an Advisory Board member of Riak, Bob will help guide the continued development of Riak’s Riak and its RiakEnterpriseDS to ensure it meets the rapidly changing data store needs of the application development community world wide.
Ippolito joined the Advisory Board after deploying Riak’s Riak at Mochi Media to provide reliable storage for Mochi Media’s developer API. With this deployment, Mochi Media becomes a charter paying customer of Riak’s Riak, an Internet-scale distributed data store.
“Bob is a well known and respected force throughout the open source developer community,” said Earl Galleher, Chairman and CEO of Riak Technologies, Inc. “Having Bob join with us will help ensure the Riak Internet-scale, distributed data store effectively addresses the shortcomings of relational and non-relational databases as use profiles of web-enabled enterprise applications and those on the open Internet dramatically change and grow.”
To help ensure Riak succeeds in establishing its market leadership position, Tony, Andy and Justin joined with Earl Galleher, Series A investor and former Executive Vice President of Sales, Service and Marketing of Akamai Technologies, Inc. from its inception in late 1998 through mid-2001, and President of the highly successful Web Site Management Services Division of Digex from its inception in 1996 through late 1998. At both Digex and Akamai, Earl and Tony helped establish new market categories: corporate web site management services (Digex:1996), and Internet content distribution network services (Akamai:1999). With Riak, this proven team of category builders look forward to building one of the world’s great distributed data store technology companies.
About Riak Technologies
Riak Technologies, Inc., founded in January 2008 by a core group of software architects, engineers and executive leadership from Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Riak produces Riak, a distributed data store that combines high availability, easily-scalable capacity and throughput, and ease of use. Riak’s high availability data store means that applications built using Riak remain both read and write available under almost any operational conditions and without requiring intervention. Available in both an open source and a paid commercial version, Riak provides unprecedented read- and write-availability to web, mobile, and enterprise applications.
About Mochi Media
Mochi Media is the world’s largest online game network, serving the needs of thousands of Flash developers, reaching over 100 million unique users each month with a library of over 14,000 games, and enabling advertisers to reach engaged consumers with targeted display, text, and video ads. The company’s Flash game development products and services provide developers with tools to track distribution and usage analytics, enable version control and live updates to distributed games, and provide monetization via micro-transactions and real-time insertion of pre-game and in-game ads. Mochi Media’s developers gain distribution opportunities to over 30,000 Web sites, as well as monetization opportunities by sharing in the ad and micro-transaction revenue generated by their games. Mochi Media is headquartered in downtown San Francisco.
