Bob Ippolito, CTO and Co-Founder of Mochi Media, joins Advisory Board of Basho Technologies, Inc.

October 29, 2009 9:41 AM EDT

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. These solutions are now being offered at a very small fraction of the cost of current relational database solutions.

To help ensure Basho succeeds in establishing its market leadership position, Tony, Andy and Justin joined with Earl Galleher, Series A investor and former Executive Vice President of Sales, Service and Marketing of Akamai Technologies, Inc. from its inception in late 1998 through mid-2001, and President of the highly successful Web Site Management Services Division of Digex from its inception in 1996 through late 1998. At both Digex and Akamai, Earl and Tony helped establish new market categories: corporate web site management services (Digex:1996), and Internet content distribution network services (Akamai:1999). With Basho, this proven team of category builders look forward to building one of the world's great distributed data store technology companies.

About Basho Technologies, Inc.

Basho Technologies, Inc., (www.basho.com) founded in January 2008 by a core group of software architects, engineers and executive leadership from Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Basho produces Riak, a distributed data store that combines high availability, easily-scalable capacity and throughput, and ease of use. Riak's high availability data store means that applications built using Riak remain both read and write available under almost any operational conditions and without requiring intervention. Available in both an open source and a paid commercial version, Riak provides unprecedented read- and write-availability to web, mobile, and enterprise applications.

About Mochi Media

Mochi Media is the world's largest online game network, serving the needs of thousands of Flash developers, reaching over 100 million unique users each month with a library of over 14,000 games, and enabling advertisers to reach engaged consumers with targeted display, text, and video ads. The company's Flash game development products and services provide developers with tools to track distribution and usage analytics, enable version control and live updates to distributed games, and provide monetization via micro-transactions and real-time insertion of pre-game and in-game ads. Mochi Media's developers gain distribution opportunities to over 30,000 Web sites, as well as monetization opportunities by sharing in the ad and micro-transaction revenue generated by their games. Mochi Media is headquartered in downtown San Francisco.

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    Earl Galleher, CEO Basho Technologies, Inc.
    Mobile: 910.520.5466
    Email:  earl@basho.com
    www.basho.com

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