Why PayPal Chose OpenStack

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday August 30, 2013 @12:05AM from the switching-brands dept.

AlbanX writes in with this story about Paypal's use of OpenStack. "PayPal's IT team has taken control of its technology release cycle by shifting key components of its IT infrastructure onto OpenStack. For PayPal, the decision to use components of OpenStack was based around speed to market. It allows the payments provider to untether its release cycle from those of vendor partners. 'PayPal has not historically been known for its fast reactions,' PayPal senior engineer Scott Carlson conceded to attendees at the VMworld conference in San Francisco this week. 'It has taken us six to nine months sometimes to react to our competitors.'"

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Openstack bias by Drewdad · 2013-08-30 00:14 · Score: 5, Interesting

No articles on Credit Suisse's decision not to use OpenStack and their rationale for not doing so? On my own head be it, I suppose....
Re:So, what the hell is Open Stack? by afidel · 2013-08-30 00:31 · Score: 5, Informative

It's a collection of open source API's for the management and automation of virtual machines at scale. It can be used with a number of hypervisors including VMWare vsphere, Xen, KVM, Hyper-V and a few others.

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