SoftLayer & Riak Partner for High-Performance, Scalable Riak In The Cloud
Turnkey Big Data Environments Available Across SoftLayer’s Global Infrastructure
Dallas, TX and Cambridge, MA — April 30, 2013 — Riak and SoftLayer Technologies today announced the availability of Riak and Riak Enterprise on SoftLayer’s global cloud platform. The integrated solution provides the availability, fault tolerance, operational simplicity, and scalability of Riak combined with the flexibility, performance, and agility of SoftLayer’s on-demand infrastructure.
SoftLayer and Riak have collaborated to make Riak—an open source, distributed database—deployment more accessible and flexible through a pay-as-you-go service model. The solution enables organizations to swiftly deploy scalable production-grade systems, accelerating the speed of deployment of big data applications and providing greater business agility. Organizations can design and deploy a complete solution set through SoftLayer’s Web-based Solution Designer, with ongoing management and provisioning available via the company’s portal, mobile apps and API.
Common use cases for Riak include fault-tolerant, low-latency storage for content, user and session information, mobile data, log files, JSON/XML documents, and more. For customers that require replication of clusters between multiple data centers, Riak Enterprise is available and also adds extended monitoring and 24×7 support. Customers use multi-datacenter replication, in two or more sites, to serve global traffic, maintain active backups, run secondary analytics clusters, or meet disaster recovery and regulatory compliance requirements.
“Customer demand for easy-to-deploy and manage big data cloud-based solutions continues to rise,” says Duke Skarda, CTO of SoftLayer. “We are seeing substantial adoption through joint customers, such as Bump. Our platform was built specifically to support the kind of Web-scale distributed applications that big data exemplifies, and our partnership with Riak is further validation of our commitment to deliver a complete suite of scalable, high-performance big data solutions.”
“Riak and SoftLayer have long catered to innovative developers building the next generation of web, social and mobile applications. Today, enterprise customers are demanding the same, an architecture that provides for zero-data loss and delivers zero-downtime,” says Bobby Patrick, executive vice president and CMO of Riak. “We believe distributed systems software, such as Riak, and distributed infrastructure is required to help customers truly achieve these ambitions. Riak is excited to partner with SoftLayer to help companies easily deploy applications that are truly distributed, scalable, and always available.”
Bump is one of the most popular mobile apps on the market today. The app makes it easy for users to share their contact information, photos, and other objects by simply “bumping” their smartphones. Bump uses Riak to store user data including events, communications sent and received, handset information and authentication tokens.
“Operational ease is key to our business success,” says Mark Smith, Operations Lead at Bump. “The combination of SoftLayer, who we already trust with our business and data, and Riak, who makes the database that we trust at scale, saves us time and effort and allows us to focus on our business, not our data infrastructure.”
Features & Benefits
- Web-based SoftLayer Solution Designer makes it easy to configure and deploy Riak environments on demand and at the click of a button.
- High performance and superior availability and scalability leveraging the broadest cloud infrastructure platform in the industry including dedicated bare metal servers and a broad range of storage options.
- Global private network allows for high-speed, secure replication between clusters
Optimized infrastructure and best-practice deployments based on joint insights, expertise, and experience from SoftLayer and Riak. - Pay-as-you-go model provides the flexibility of monthly or annual billing and no long-term contracts.
