Cloud is Mainstream but Everything has Changed
For years, the press and industry analysts have been telling us that cloud is mainstream, but the reality is that Enterprises must shift their workloads to the cloud in an orderly, low risk manner....
View ArticleReplication is the Key for Scalability & High Availability
December 18, 2014 One of the interesting things about attending industry events, like AWS re:Invent, is identifying common trends that arise in conversations. Recent conversations point to a renewed...
View ArticleRiak Documentation – A Holiday Reading List
December 30, 2014 At Basho, we are proud of our documentation. All design, updates, and edits are done with our community top of mind and we encourage community participation. Given the pace at which...
View ArticleData Modeling with Riak
January 22, 2015 In speaking with Riak users, both open source and commercial, we are frequently told that Riak’s key/value model is more flexible and faster to develop against than a traditional...
View ArticleSolving the Problem of Unstructured Data Using Distributed Systems
February 1st, 2015 If you missed last week’s webinar Preparing for the Deluge of Unstructured Data you can still watch it on-demand. Dorothy Pults and I discuss the news emanating from the 2015...
View ArticleThe Requirement of High Availability
February 17, 2015 According to TechTarget, a common definition of “High Availability” is: “In information technology, high availability refers to a system or component that is continuously operational...
View ArticleWhy Riak Just Works
March 17, 2015 As a Solutions Architect for Basho, I’m often called upon by customers to explain Riak. Frequently this is in the context of a specific use-case they are deploying, or a problem they are...
View ArticleApple Bites Into NoSQL
Yesterday it was announced that Apple has acquired FoundationDB. As you may imagine, I have been asked to comment on what this means for the NoSQL database industry and for those who are investing...
View ArticleGaming and Betting Companies Find Success with Riak.
March 30, 2015 This is the first post in a series of blog posts, entitled Riak Customer Stories, where we will look at common use cases for Riak and their applicability in specific verticals. Our first...
View ArticleRiak 2.1 and Riak CS 2.0 – Increased Performance and Product Enhancements
April 8, 2015 At the beginning of 2015, Adam Wray, our CEO and president, made a bold statement in a post entitled Basho is Back! Record Year and a Strong Start to 2015 he claimed: At Basho we are...
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