Launching the White Cloud Distributed Storage service

NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Softbank Telecom Corp. and Yahoo Japan Corp. work together in providing cloud services and from February 6 started providing Yahoo! Japan's unlimited-capacity storage service, Yahoo! Cloud Storage, as White Cloud Distributed Storage.^*1

The storage platform for this distributed storage is Riak CS, U.S. company Basho Technologies, Inc.'s distributed database technology,^*2 which enables fast access to large-volume data and highly-reliable system architecture that conventional storage services have difficulties providing. Stored data will be automatically replicated for redundancy, within both the same data center and among multiple data centers, enabling Yahoo! Japan to offer unlimited-capacity, fast and safe storage that is fault-tolerant, disaster-resistant, robust and highly-available.

Distributed Storage

1.    Advantages

(1)  Low-cost storage of large-volume data
The basic price for 1GB data storage will be ¥10 before tax, or approximately $0.10, enabling low-cost storage and backing up large-volume data and contents, which are important in this big-data era.

(2)  Excellent performance
All files can be stored, including images, documents and video. With the high-performance distributed storage clusters, uploading and downloading data are smooth and comfortable.

(3)  Robust and highly-available
In addition to replicating data within each data center in Japan, the data is automatically distributed among remote data centers in East and West Japan for robustness and high availability.

(4)  Highly compatible with Amazon S3 API
This distributed storage uses the REST (Representational State Transfer) Web API, which is highly compatible with Amazon's cloud storage, Amazon S3. You can use applications and services that use REST API. With the unified interface for cloud storage, hybrid cloud access simply requires changing the access points, meeting customer needs for secure access.

2.    Basic price

Monthly fee: ¥10, or approximately $0.10, per GB (tax not included)

Data transfer fee is also required. Each company, however, may upload up to 10 TB of data per month free of charge.

3.    Specifications

Storage capacity: Unlimited

Data transfer volume: Unlimited

API: REST API (http/https)

Data centers: Multiple data centers in Japan (East and West Japan data centers)

Data redundancy: Three copies of the data are stored at each data center, and the data is also automatically replicated and distributed to other data centers.

Data robustness: 99.99999999999999999% (19 nines)

Data availability: 99.9999% (6 nines)

SLA: 99.9% (3 nines)

4.    Service image

For more information on this distributed storage, click the link below:

http://tm.softbank.jp/business/white_cloud/iaas/dis_storage/

*1 This service is Yahoo! Japan Corp.'s Yahoo! Cloud Storage resold by Softbank Telecom.

*2 Basho Technologies, Inc. (http://basho.com/) is a software company founded in 2008. Basho Technologies develops and offers products using highly-available distributed database technology. Basho Technologies' Riak CS is a multi-tenant storage platform, which many companies around the world use for the storage platforms of their public and private clouds.

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Media Contacts for Basho Technologies

Kekst and Company
Robert Siegfried: [email protected]  
Lyndsey Estin: [email protected]  
Anntal Silver: [email protected]  
Phone: 212-521-4800

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SOURCE Basho Technologies