OpenStack

“We didn’t start out trying to build a private cloud or even necessarily say, ‘Hey, we want OpenStack. We started out with the idea of changing the relationship with managed service providers…We basically wanted to manage our own V-center and V-infrastructure and the dev-ops teams wanted APIs. When we looked at the ways to deliver the APIs to them, we landed on OpenStack as the way that was most obvious.”

“Open-source, while important, is only part of the picture,” said Roberts. “To be an agile tech company, you need to react quickly to changes.”

“As we examined the various initiatives we’d have underway in our cloud, which would include the intermingling of physical and virtual loads as well as complex network configurations, we knew that the flexibility inherent in OpenStack would prove powerful enough to support our objectives. With OpenStack we have the ability to customize the platform and maintain significant control over our destiny.”