Basho and Seagate Partner 

Basho announced today that it has partnered with Seagate Technology to help significantly advance the economics and performance potential of cloud architectures. For the past six months, Basho has worked with Seagate on its development of its Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform, providing interoperability and testing with Riak, Basho's distributed NoSQL database.

The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform eliminates the storage server tier of traditional data center architectures by enabling applications to speak directly to the storage system, thereby reducing expenses associated with the acquisition, deployment, and support of hyper scale storage infrastructures. The platform leverages Seagate's expertise in hardware and software storage systems integrating an open source API and Ethernet connectivity with Seagate hard drive technology.

Basho developed Riak to offer businesses a highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed database ensuring ultra-low-latency performance that is simple-to-operate -- at any scale. Today, Riak is used by thousands of companies including over 30 percent of the Fortune 50. Basho's partnership with Seagate aimed to continue to improve on these ambitions and customers deploying Riak on the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform will see the following benefits:

• An increase in I/O efficiency by removing bottlenecks and optimizing cluster management, data replication, migration, and active multi-data center performance.
• An improvement in customer Total Cost of Operations (TCO) by up to 50 percent through simplified operations.
• An additional cost savings by maximizing storage density through reduced power and cooling costs, and receiving potentially dramatic savings in cloud data center build outs.

To assist with developers seeking to test the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform, Basho is making available an eKinetic driver enabling an Erlang-based high-performance socket connection to the drive. Basho is also providing software that maps a Riak backend to the drive library. Both the eKinetic driver and Riak backend compatibility are available as alpha version software.

"Seagate is bringing device based innovation to the scale out cloud market in a new and open way," said Ali Fenn, Senior Director of Advanced Storage at Seagate Technology. "This is a fundamentally new architecture -- integrating an open source key/ value API and Ethernet connectivity into devices -- that represents a vital leap forward in decreasing cloud architecture TCO while improving performance. We are very excited to work with Basho, a leader in distributed object storage software, to bring complete solutions to customers."