Awesome news! Is someone already working on a Homebrew Formula for it? (don't want to duplicate efforts if they are...)
Thanks! Jon Brisbin http://about.me/jbrisbin On Mar 20, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Mark Phillips <m...@basho.com> wrote: > 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 > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
