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The Weather Company Deploys Basho Riak for Next Generation Forecast and Data Services Platform

The Weather Company VP of Enterprise Data to Unveil New IT Platform at Amazon AWS re:Invent 2013

LAS VEGAS, CA – November 13, 2013 – Amazon AWS re:Invent 2013 – During the past year, The Weather Company has undergone a remarkable transformation to its technology infrastructure as a data-driven media and technology company. As a part of the transformation, The Weather Company, which oversees popular brands such as The Weather Channel, weather.com, Weather Underground, Intellicast and WSI, has selected next generation technologies to underpin its new IT platform, including Basho’s Riak, Apache Hadoop, and Dasein.

“Weather is the original big data. However, weather changes, and so must IT,” commented Bryson Koehler, executive vice president and CIO, The Weather Company. “A massive data explosion is at the center of our growth strategy. The Weather Company requires an architecture that is both flexible and reliable, allowing us to deliver higher accuracy through superior data. Basho has been a valuable partner in our transformation and Riak has proven to be a critical component as the NoSQL distributed database powering our new platform.”

Since joining The Weather Company in July 2012 as EVP and CIO, Bryson Koehler has renewed the company’s vision for technology and executed a global IT transformation to propel their business growth strategy.

The Weather Company deployed Riak across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones using Riak Enterprise’s Multi-Datacenter Replication for ultra high-availability. Riak is used to store a variety of data from satellites, radars, forecast models, users, and weather stations worldwide. The next-generation data services platform enables The Weather Company to expand its ability to serve superior professional weather services in major weather-influenced markets, including media, hospitality, insurance, energy, and retail.

“The Weather Company typifies the customer that Riak was designed for,” said Greg Collins, CEO of Basho Technologies. “Aligning data services with customer consumption requires a flexible, available, and operationally simple database architecture. Riak Enterprise solves these needs while also working with the The Weather Company to ensure it is able to scale to meet the demand of an increasing set of data points and be well positioned for future initiatives.”

During Amazon re:Invent 2013, Sathish Gaddipati, vice president of enterprise data at The Weather Company will unveil their newest Weather Forecast and Data Services Platform and TWC’s overall enterprise IT transformation. Sathish’s presentation, titled How the Weather Company Monetizes Weather, the Original Big Data Problem, will be Thursday, November 14 at 5:30pm at The Venetian Las Vegas.

NHS to Deploy Riak for New IT Backbone With Quality of Care Improvements in Sight

Basho’s Riak distributed database supports development of Spine2; will improve performance and patient care

London, 8 October 2013 – Basho has today announced that it is working with the National Health Service (NHS) to develop the new Spine2 database, which is supported by Basho’s distributed database Riak.

The NHS set tough goals to drive efficiency and care improvements through the innovative use of technology and over the past two years has been focusing efforts on revamping the NHS’ Spine1 database, a critical UK healthcare system.

At its peak, Spine1 was managed by over 2,000 staff and was supported by 1,000 servers. The NHS decided to radically rethink the Spine computer by starting small and staying small while at the same time improving the performance and reliability of the system, along with its support of the care process.

The NHS chose Basho’s Riak as the backbone of the new Spine2 project to develop a more flexible and resilient solution. With Riak, the NHS developers will be able to make changes to Spine2 without needing burdensome and expensive systems integrators. This will dramatically cut down the time taken to implement new features dramatically and positively impacting patient care.

Inspired by the Danish Health Authority, which has already set up an agile, national record system based on the Riak database, the NHS had confidence that Basho’s database would be suitable for its needs. The Spine2 project is currently in the last phases of testing and is due to go live in early 2014.

“In the healthcare industry, keeping costs low and simultaneously improving the level of care are critical requirements,” said Greg Collins, CEO at Basho Technologies. “As medical information becomes digital, government health organisations need IT capabilities that provide uninterrupted, reliable access to critical, life-saving information. Riak’s built-in resiliency and predictable scalability are two important features that directly benefit the NHS and the citizens of the United Kingdom. Basho is very excited to be working with the NHS on such a revolutionary, world leading project.”

About Basho Technologies
Basho is a distributed systems company dedicated to making software that is highly available, fault tolerant and easy-to-operate at scale. Basho’s distributed database, Riak, and Basho’s cloud storage software, Riak CS, are used by fast growing Web businesses and by over 25 percent of the Fortune 50 to power their critical Web, mobile and social applications and their public and private cloud platforms.

Riak and Riak CS are available open source. Riak Enterprise and Riak CS Enterprise offer enhanced multi-datacenter replication and 24×7 Basho support. For more information, visit basho.com. Basho is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Francisco, Tokyo, Washington DC, and London. Basho’s London office is located in Shoreditch near the popular high-tech district of London, commonly referred to as “Silicon Roundabout.”