Thought Leaders in Big Data: Adam Wray, CEO of Basho (Part 2)

Adam Wray: Let’s talk about healthcare and NHS. NHS is a health services organization in UK. They cover all the profile information for all 80 million citizens. That original project was held within an Oracle database. As they were continuing to expand the amount of data that they would collect and as they were capturing more data that was unanticipated,  they needed to make sure that they were making it available regardless of location. What you could have is literally a life and death situation. If a patient comes in, they need to be prescribed a certain thing based on an emergency scenario or just a daily prescription.

NHS went through a large process of evaluating everyone in the industry. They ended up choosing Basho and our key value portion of our data platform in which to deliver all profiles. It’s a highly successful project. It gave them a level of agility they never had before. Now, they’re looking to expand new ways off of that.

Sramana Mitra: Why don’t we do a couple of other examples?

Alexandre Wentzo: Let’s go to the media and entertainment side and pick on gaming. Riot Games is one of the largest online gaming sites in the world. Their main product is called League of Legends. In one day, they’ll have 30 million users concurrently interacting with each other, consistently talking, and looking for new ways to conquer that universe. Riot Games looks to us to help with all their session, live chat, communication, and their profile data.

Why? Because their users are spread all over the world. Once again, it’s a distributed systems conundrum where you’re looking to make sure that your data is accurate and available regardless of location, size, and number of users. This is something that our platform is built upon. They run on our platform across multiple locations and continue to expand.

Sramana Mitra: In both use cases that you’ve described, it sounds like there is a subscription database management challenge that you’re tackling. There’s the membership database. Then the associated data activity data around those members. Is that the core commonality across those different use cases?

Adam Wray: Typically, we see real-time data, profile data, session data, user data, and logging data. They bring that data depending on which model they run based on their workload. They’re looking to make sure that they can tap in to the simplicity and the availability of our offerings. That’s a consistent thing. If we pick on other companies like Microsoft, their Yammer division uses us for all their notification data and chat service. Once again, it’s a high availability of data. In this case, session data specific to what they’re trying to notify or make available.

This segment is part 2 in the series : Thought Leaders in Big Data: Adam Wray, CEO of Basho
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