SoftLayer, the cloud and hosting provider that you may or may not know, has been busy again. It’s added a hosted Riak database service to its portfolio.
It worked with Basho, the Cambridge, Mass. company behind both the Riak NoSQL distributed database and RiakCS storage to do the work. Both Riak and Riak Enterprise on SoftLayer’s pay-as-you-go infrastructure.
As GigaOM’s Jordan Novet reported, Riak is used by companies including Github because it stores, replicates and retrieves data at scale, even when multiple nodes fail.
According to a statement by the two companies, the Riak solution makes it easier and faster for companies to “deploy scalable production-grade systems fast “at the click of a button.”
In March, Basho made its Riak CS distributed storage code available under the Apache 2 license. Late last year, Softlayer worked with 10Gen to put the popular MongoDB database on its infrastructure as an option. It’s clearly filling in its NoSQL check boxes here.
Dallas-based SoftLayer’s been the subject of acquisition rumors lately. IBM is (or was) reportedly interested in buying the company.
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