Oct. 29, 2009 (PR Newswire) --

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Basho Technologies, Inc. (www.basho.com) today announced that Bob Ippolito, CTO and co-founder of Mochi Media, the largest online games network, has joined the Advisory Board of Basho Technologies, Inc. Bob is a respected Silicon Valley developer and entrepreneur, author of the popular MochiKitJavascript framework, the MochiWeb web server, and long time open source contributor to the Python programming language. As an Advisory Board member of Basho, Bob will help guide the continued development of Basho's Riak and its RiakEnterpriseDS to ensure it meets the rapidly changing data store needs of the application development community world wide.

Ippolito joined the Advisory Board after deploying Basho's Riak at Mochi Media to provide reliable storage for Mochi Media's developer API. With this deployment, Mochi Media becomes a charter paying customer of Basho's Riak, an Internet-scale distributed data store.

"I am excited to join Basho's Advisory Board," said Bob Ippolito. "Mochi Media's tools and services require a level of write-availability and scale that traditional relational databases cannot provide and that we, as a rapidly growing company, need. Riak is a perfect fit for many of Mochi's large-scale data storage needs, and I look forward to working with Basho in my new advisory capacity."

"Bob is a well known and respected force throughout the open source developer community," said Earl Galleher, Chairman and CEO of Basho Technologies, Inc. "Having Bob join with us will help ensure the Riak Internet-scale, distributed data store effectively addresses the shortcomings of relational and non-relational databases as use profiles of web-enabled enterprise applications and those on the open Internet dramatically change and grow."

In 2006, Tony Falco, Justin Sheehy and Andy Gross, all former Akamai Technologies, Inc. employees, came together to design a new kind of data store that was not subject to the growing fragility and customer expense of current relational database architectures. They wanted to build a highly reliable, fully distributed, read and write fault tolerant data store on which applications could easily be developed. Built using the inherently scalable erlang programming language from the ground up, the result is Basho's Riak: the Internet scale, distributed data store. On August 17, 2009, Riak was released as open source under the Apache 2 license, to positive reviews world wide (http://riak.basho.com/). Incredible momentum is building as Riak positions itself to be a market leader providing easy to use, highly scalable data store solutions for enterprises, web properties, mobile applications and infrastructure.