SoftLayer and Basho team up for high-performance database-as-a-service offering
May 1, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.
IaaS player SoftLayer and distributed software company Basho have come together in order to offer the latter’s NoSQL Riak database as a service operating on SoftLayer’s cloud. The companies claim the collaboration will make the open source database more accessible and flexible, as it is available on a pay-as-you-go basis. Marc Jones, vice president of product innovation at SoftLayer told Cloud Pro: “The overall goal is to launch a product on the SoftLayer platform that is very easy for customers to get started with their Riak and Riak enterprise deployments.
“We want to make it simple, starting from the up-front ordering process. We have designed what we call a solution designer and it allows customers to dynamically build Riak clusters and specify which SoftLayer data centre they want to build it in. So it’s not quite wizard style, but it is very easy to walk through.”…
The solution designer also allows users to choose what type of server they want, Jones said. This includes choosing between a small (up to four drives) or medium (up to 12 drives) offering and also having the option to choose between traditional spinning disks, faster spinning disks or, if extremely high performance is needed, solid state drives (SSDs)…
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