"As a hosted open-source solution, our challenges are fast time to market and controlling costs. With Riak KV we were able to offer a highly resilient, highly available data store quickly and easily with very low cost of operations using commodity hardware."

"Object storage is radically simpler than traditional SAN and even NAS, it scales much better from a capacity standpoint and it’s especially well-suited for cost-effectively storing the reams of unstructured data — think files, videos, music and images — that are being created in this ‘big data’ era."