American retail giant Gap deployed its first OpenStack cloud in 2013, but now the vast majority of its forward-facing e-commerce platforms now run on the open source infrastructure.
Eli Elliott, infrastructure architect responsible for private cloud at Gap, explained to Computerworld UK how the company’s close partnership with Rackspace — among other OpenStack vendors — saw it build and develop from an isolated testing pipeline to running all kinds of workloads.
“We work pretty closely with Rackspace, we’re one of their more hands-on clients, I guess I’d say,” Elliott said. “I meet with them weekly at places like this, I meet with their architecture team, and tell them all the stuff I wish we had — and they tell us how quickly they can get it. It’s a nice collaboration.”
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