Hi All - Grab a coffee and hang onto your buffers. There is a lot of awesome stuff to cover here.
## Riak CS Now Open Source It is with great pride, pleasure, and excitement that we announce Riak CS (Cloud Storage) is now open source under the Apache 2 license! For those of you not familiar with Riak CS, here's the tl;dr (from our docs): Riak CS is multi-tenant cloud storage software for public and private clouds. Built on Basho's distributed database Riak, Riak CS is designed to provide simple, available, distributed cloud storage at any scale. Riak CS is S3-API compatible and supports per-tenant reporting for billing and metering use cases. If you want to take it for a test drive: * Complete Riak CS Documentation: http://docs.basho.com/riakcs/latest/ * Downloads: http://docs.basho.com/riakcs/latest/riakcs-downloads/ * Riak CS Fast Track: http://docs.basho.com/riakcs/latest/riakcs-tutorials/fast-track/ * Riak CS Source on GitHub: https://github.com/basho/riak_cs For more information on what Riak CS is and why you should use and contribute to it: * Detailed blog post on the Riak CS release: http://basho.com/riak-cs-is-now-open-source/ * Riak CS on basho.com: http://basho.com/riak-cloud-storage/ * RICON EAST this May in New York City will have various Riak CS content and talks. Join us: ricon.io/east.html * The HackerNews thread is sure to be quite lively, too :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406958 Wired [1], TechCrunch [2], and GigaOm [3] also did pieces on the release. ## Riak CS 1.3 Is Now official In addition to the code being open source, we're also releasing the 1.3 version of Riak CS. This release is full of great features and numerous bug fixes. The full Riak CS 1.3 release notes are here: http://docs.basho.com/riakcs/latest/cookbooks/Riak-CS-Release-Notes/ ## Community Support - Mailing List and IRC We're planning to use the existing Riak users mailing list for Riak CS users. Most of the issues and deployment questions about CS will have some sort of Riak component to them, so it doesn't make sense to split the discussions and support channels in two at the moment. That said, if the CS-specific traffic proves to heavy, we'll revisit the idea of spinning up a new list for CS. Additionally, the #riak room on freenode will serve as the IRC support channel. ## What Now? If you've never been excited about S3-Compatible cloud storage, the time is now. :) All of us here at Basho are thrilled about expanding the Riak Community with those of you who need flexible, scalable, open source cloud storage. We're looking forward to you using and contributing to Riak CS. Let us know if you have any questions. And thanks for being a great community. Mark (on behalf of Basho) [1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/riakcs-open-source/ [2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/20/basho-open-sources-riak-cs-its-big-data-storage-software-for-companies-that-want-their-own-amazon-s3-cloud/ [3] http://gigaom.com/2013/03/20/storage-player-basho-open-sources-riak-cs/ _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
