{"id":3677,"date":"2013-04-11T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2013-04-11T07:00:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T15:00:21","slug":"open-source-cloud-computing-riak-cloud-storage-offers-aws-s3-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/open-source-cloud-computing-riak-cloud-storage-offers-aws-s3-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Cloud Computing: Riak Cloud Storage Offers AWS-S3 Compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basho <\/a>was founded in 2008 by a group of executives and software engineers from Akamai Technologies. \u00a0Over the last five years, the team has received $26 million<\/a> ($39 million based on GigaOm’s<\/a> estimates) in venture funding. \u00a0While the company name may have been selected for other reasons, it seems likely that there was inspiration from\u00a0Matsuo Basho<\/a>,\u00a0a famous Japanese poet who lived during the 1600’s. \u00a0This connection to Japan may have proved useful to help the American company achieve funding from Japanese companies<\/a> IDC Frontier and Tokyo Electron Device Limited, along with quite a few American ones chipping in too. \u00a0The Basho logo features a face with hair styled in a Japanese-style topknot, not too unlike the look that Basho’s CTO Justin Sheehy sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Basho has created the Riak data store, a NoSQL database that is modeled after Amazon’s Dynamo<\/a>. \u00a0Riak customers<\/a> include\u00a0Symantec, Best Buy, Workday, Yahoo! JAPAN, Voxer, Braintree, Bump, Boeing, Comcast, AOL, Ask.com, Yammer, Yandex, and AT&T. \u00a0Riak is designed to be highly scalable and highly available, enabling large-scale fault-tolerant replication and retrieval of data.<\/p>\n

Basho also offers Riak Cloud Storage, storage software that is REST API-compatible with Amazon S3 storage and designed to be the foundation for either a private or public cloud. \u00a0Riak Cloud Storage can support multiple tenants with reporting on a per-user basis and it also supports the storage of very large binary objects, up to five gigabytes, with the ability to make granular retrievals \u00a0of partial data contained within a single stored object.<\/p>\n

In March 2013, Basho\u00a0announced that Riak Cloud Storage<\/a> changed its licensing to the open source Apache 2 license.<\/p>\n

Simon Robinson<\/a>, vice president of storage research at 451 Research, said that<\/a> “The cloud storage market continues to accelerate as companies seek to build public and private storage clouds that mirror Amazon Web Services’ capabilities and economics.”<\/p>\n

Jack Clark of the Register noted that<\/a> “by publishing Riak Cloud Storage as open source, the company is hoping to give more developers a reason to stay up to speed on the platform and, hopefully, develop applications that link it to other, larger parts of the open-source ecosystem where it can flower.”<\/p>\n

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Basho was founded in 2008 by a group of executives and software engineers from Akamai Technologies. \u00a0Over the last five years, the team has received $26 million ($39 million based on GigaOm’s estimates) in venture funding. \u00a0While the company name…<\/span><\/p>\n

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