Case Study: PayPal achieves agile, highly available private cloud operations with OpenStack

PayPal - Customer Case Study

PayPal, a global online payments company, needed a cloud infrastructure that could provide extreme agility for its developers without ever sacrificing the 99.9999% availability required to process millions of transactions. Their challenge was to build a stable yet innovative platform to support the future of digital payments. They turned to the vendor OpenStack to build a private cloud using a broad portfolio of its technologies, including Compute (Nova), Block Storage (Cinder), and Networking.

By implementing an OpenStack-powered private cloud, PayPal gained the scalable and agile development environment it required. The open-source nature of OpenStack allowed PayPal to leverage community innovation, accelerate its development process, and avoid proprietary lock-in. The results were validated quickly, with an initial prototype paying substantial dividends and encouraging aggressive expansion. This solution supported PayPal's dramatic growth, enabling it to handle increased payment volumes and get new products to market faster.

PayPal

Saran Mandair

senior director