According to Wired.com in the article, “Amazon Cloud Storage Clone Goes Open Source,” Amazon Cloud Services are a great way to have instant access to stored data and run applications. The downside, however, is that Amazon does not let you set up your own personal cloud service. To counter Amazon (though not as a dig), Basho has made its Riak CS part of the open source community. Riak CS is designed to be compatible with Amazon’s service and it allows users to create private Amazon storage systems or to power your own web applications.
Along with going open source, Basho as added new features to Riak CS. One question still must be asked:
But why go open source now, almost a year after the product was first released? ‘It’s easier to go in one direction, and not the other, we wanted to make sure we did it right,’ says Justin Sheehy, the CTO of Basho, the company that develops Riak. ‘It was a brand new product for us.’
Another reason is that more developers are turning to open source software instead of commercial licenses, so when the developers do need to purchase technical support or other software they will already have Basho’s software in place for easy integration. Basho made a good strategic move, what will they do next? Even with a well-organized and structured Cloud storage system, users still need to be able to search with a reliable and Cloud-geared search application like LucidWorks.
Whitney Grace, April 8, 2013
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