Instaclustr partners with Mashape to deliver Managed Cassandra for Kong
Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) September 17, 2015 -- Instaclustr, a high-tech company delivering hosted and managed Apache Cassandra™ services, today announced a new partnership agreement with Mashape to support users of their open source API gateway called Kong.
Mashape delivers the world’s largest API marketplace and Kong, an open source API layer or gateway. Kong uses Cassandra as its primary datastore to store any data including APIs, Consumers and Plugins. Instaclustr has partnered with Mashape to deliver a hosted and managed Cassandra solution in the cloud for Kong.
Instaclustr CEO, Peter Nichol is excited about the new partnership and mutual opportunity, “The Mashape and Instaclustr stories are very similar and we share strong mutual interests, making for a strong partnership. I have been really impressed with the Mashape team, their solutions and customer traction. Instaclustr is here to support the Kong user community by making it easy to deploy Cassandra in the cloud for their Kong deployments.”
Mashape Head of Engineering, Ahmad Nassri provided his thoughts on the partnership, “we are pleased to be able to provide the Kong user community with an easy path to deploying Cassandra clusters to support their Kong deployment. We selected Cassandra as our initial database technology due to its scalability, reliability and performance. Having a managed service like Instaclustr is a great enabler for the Kong user community. ”
Mashape and Instaclustr will also be working on a number of joint consulting and engineering efforts over the coming months to further extend and enhance the partnership.
More information about the partnership and Managed Cassandra offering can be found here (https://www.instaclustr.com/products/kong).
Peter Nichol, Instaclustr, http://www.instaclustr.com, +1 4085644007, [email protected]
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