Vice-president of global platforms and infrastructures for PayPal, said OpenStack cloud platform open-source provides the "agility, availability, manageability and efficiency," his company needs to run the massive scope of its activities.
"To keep pace with innovation in this scale and growth, we have reinvented our basic infrastructure from scratch," he said in a recent blog. "... Today, I am excited to share our last stop, we converted almost 100 percent of our web / API applications traffic services and services to mid-tier PayPal to run our internal cloud based on OpenStack."
Here are some numbers that give a sense of the massive scale of operations handled by PayPal. Last year, the company serves 162 million customers, across 203 markets with 26 different currencies. The total payment was US $ 228 billion.
PayPal uses the virtualization software VMware server. VMware actually sells its own version of OpenStack. However, did not indicate whether this is what his company is using for its private cloud.
OpenStack does not have its own hypervisor. Works with VMware vSphere, Xen, Hyper-V, KMV and others.
Director of solutions architecture for CMI, a California-based company that cloud storage is a VMware partner, said in an interview with the online publication, which "is not reading too much into the embrace of OpenStack PayPal ...”
"VMware owns the data center, but OpenStack and KVM are the leader in cloud builds," he said.
It was a wise decision by VMware to support OpenStack will become more mainstream in the future.
The company redesigned its infrastructure from a traditional model manual-build-on-demand for a multi-tenant private cloud infrastructure with automated end-to-end based on OpenStack.
However, this is not the first time that PayPal is delighted with the open-source cloud infrastructure.
The first phase of its cloud-based private OpenStack was implemented in December 2011 "in the middle of the holiday shopping season online." Said routing PayPal started with 20 percent of its workload through the private cloud. This gave PayPal greater flexibility and agility.
"With our cloud infrastructure suite, we were able to implement new Java applications and the ability of the infrastructure available within minutes - instead of days," he said. "It 'important that we have an infrastructure that is available on request for our developers to implement. At the same time, it is important that we have a highly available infrastructure that is constantly manageable scale."
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