CAMBRIDGE, MA – March 30 – Erlang Solutions, Ltd., the leading provider of Erlang services, and Riak Technologies, the makers of Riak, a high-availability data store written in Erlang, today announced they have entered into a multi-faceted partnership to deliver scalable, fault tolerant applications built on Riak, to the global market. Erlang OTP, an Ericsson open source technology, has found application in a new generation of fault tolerant use from companies like Facebook and Amazon.
“Erlang Solutions constantly seeks out new technologies and services to bring to its clients,” said Marcus Taylor, CEO of Erlang Solutions. “With Riak, we add not just the Riak software, but a partner to help us build an ecosystem of Erlang-based high-availability applications.”
The partnership has three major components: 1) both companies develop and support training and certification, 2) Erlang Solutions architects, load tests, and builds Riak-based applications for clients, and 3) Erlang Solutions provides Riak clients with training, systems design, prototyping, and development services.
“Erlang Solutions is globally recognized as the business thought leaders in the Erlang community,” said Earl Galleher, Riak Technologies Chairman and CEO. “Our current and future customers now have access to a new tier of professional services and we help Erlang Solutions push Erlang further into the mainstream market.”
With this partnership, Erlang Solutions now represents Riak Technologies in Europe for services and distribution. The teams will focus on high growth markets like mobile telephony, social media and e-commerce applications where current Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) solutions are struggling to keep up.
“Look at the explosive growth of SMS IM traffic,” said Francesco Cesarini, founder of Erlang Solutions, “and the cost to scale traditional infrastructure. Riak’s Riak helps clients contain these costs while increasing reliability. An ecosystem of high-availability solutions is forming and the relationship between Erlang Solutions and Riak Technologies will soon expand to include other partners and richer solutions.”
About Erlang Solutions Ltd
Founded in 1999, Erlang Solutions Ltd. www.erlang-solutions.com is an international company specialised in the Open Source language -Erlang and its middleware OTP. Erlang Solutions solves all your Erlang needs – Training, Certification, Consulting, Contracting, System Development, Support and Conferences. Erlang Solutions expert and certified consultants are the most experienced anywhere, with many having used Erlang since its early days. With offices in the UK, Sweden and Poland and clients on six continents, Erlang Solutions is available for short and long term opportunities world-wide.
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 – News), is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Riak produces Riak, a distributed data store that combines extreme fault tolerance, rapid scalability, and ease of use. Designed from the ground up to work with applications that run on the Internet and mobile networks, Riak is particularly well-suited for users of cloud infrastructure such as Amazon’s AWS and Joyent’s Smart platform and is available in both an open source and a paid commercial version. Current customers of Riak include Comcast Corporation, MIG-CAN, and Mochi Media.
