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Marketing a product in a nascent space is hard work. This is true in the most generic of senses…but with Riak and Basho – the “space” that we sell to is somewhat ill defined (perhaps even undefined) and the products we offer are often misunderstood by the market. I think this is because of two reasons; t [...]

One of the hardest parts of my job marketing Riak and Basho Technologies in general is that for many, they do not really understand what makes Riak unique in what seems to be an ever-growing pool of NoSQL, Big Data and other solutions popping up. While many of these solutions handle similar issues – scal [...]

The Basho team has been hard at work putting the finishing touches on what is shaping up to be the most important release in the history of the company.

But really – this is a milestone as the first release that says – Riak has Arrived! – following development and much learning from some large-scale enter [...]

Basho is a company dealing in extremes. No, I am not saying we only hire mountain bikers mainlining Mountain Dew. What I mean is that the Riak use cases becoming most prevalent lie in the extreme natures of what is being called (probably incorrectly) Big Data.

So, what are these extremes? And why does Ri [...]

It is hard to be surprised to see Google make a move to get into the handset hardware market with its announced $12.5bn bid for Motorola Mobility. With its Android and Honeycomb operating systems, as well as its Chrome browser and OS, Google has everything BUT devices under its belt when it comes to play [...]

The sagging Dow and all the talk of a double di recession affecting tech probably has many of us thinking back to 2008, and all of the changes that may have come along with the recession in your organization. For many companies – budgets were slashed, headcount reduced…you know the story. All t [...]

One of the most misunderstood buzzwords of the past few years might be “Big Data.” Does it just mean BIG in terms of data volume? Is it about big files? Does big mean something more to the effect of “big deal?”

We are trying to answer these questions – as we also try to solve the hard problems businesse [...]

This week I sat in on an analyst briefing with Basho CTO Justin Sheehy and an analyst from one of the big firms. It is great to listen to Justin talk to anyone, but conversations with analysts allow Justin to get deeper, and talk about issues, trends etc. – not simply about the nuts and bolts of Riak.

An [...]

One of the cool things about Riak, is that even though it is written in Erlang – you can talk to a Riak cluster with virtually any language.

One such language people are using more and more with Riak is Python. And Mathias Meyer (@roidrage for you Twitter-happy Riaksters) knows his way around both Riak an [...]

This week I participated in a Focus round table on the “Future of Social CRM” as part of their Social Business Week campaign. It was an interesting conversation – mainly because it differed from usual CRM talks in that we did not really mention CRM applications at all.

Because of the large preponderance o [...]