Case Study: Qihoo 360 achieves faster deployment and lower server costs with CNCF Kubernetes cloud native platform

Qihoo 360 Technology’s search for greater efficiency leads to cloud native

Qihoo 360 Technology's search division, which operates China's second-largest search engine, so.com, faced a significant challenge. They were relying on manual operations for deploying environments, which was inefficient and offered poor server resource utilization as the number of projects grew. To address this, they partnered with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ecosystem to find a modern solution.

The vendor, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, provided the open-source technologies that formed the core of the solution, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Harbor. By implementing a complete PaaS platform built on these CNCF projects, Qihoo 360 dramatically reduced new project setup time from hours to just minutes. The impact included a server cost reduction to 55% of their original physical machine solution and the ability to complete a large-scale computer room migration in one hour instead of a full week.

Qihoo 360

Guo Shaowei

Project Sponsor of the Search Cloud Platform Group