April 30, 2013
Today we are pleased to announce the availability of Riak and Riak Enterprise on SoftLayer’s global cloud platform. Users can now easily configure and deploy Riak environments on the SoftLayer platform with a flexible, pay-as-you-go service model. The solution makes it easy for organizations to quickly deploy scalable production-grade Riak systems on-demand. The partnership accelerates the speed of developing and launching applications with Riak, provides ease of operations with scale, and enables global multi-datacenter replication.
Features of the joint offering include:
- Web-based tool to configure and deploy Riak on demand and at the click of a button
- Pay-as-you-go model providing the flexibility of monthly or annual billing and no long-term contracts
- Rapid deployment on dedicated, bare-metal servers for optimum performance
With the Riak Enterprise offering on SoftLayer, users can replicate data stored in Riak across SoftLayer’s global infrastructure. This multi-datacenter replication capability provides data locality, disaster recovery, global load balancing, and active backups. SoftLayer’s global private network allows for high-speed, secure replication between clusters.
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.
Bump is one of the most popular mobile apps on the market today, and is already using Riak on the SoftLayer platform. “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.”
For more information on how Bump uses Riak, check out the case study. For more information on Riak Enterprise, visit the product page or documentation.
SoftLayer is also sponsoring the RICON East 2013 after party. On night one of the conference, we’re renting out Hudson Terrace for a one-of-a-kind party. SoftLayer and Riak are furnishing drinks, food, and entertainment. All RICON attendees are automatically registered for the party…but, as of today, the party is open to anyone who wants to register.
