<p>Online marketplace Snapdeal today announced the launch of its private cloud platform, Cirrus, to help the company offer a more frictionless, reliable experience to customers and help save costs.<br /><br /></p>.<p>This move will enable Snapdeal to ensure that business growth is augmented with platform speed, security, and stability, it said.<br /><br />The private cloud solution has been built and operationalised in under a year and is timed to handle long-term growth in traffic, Snapdeal said in a statement.<br /><br />The launch follows a sustained increase in online traffic at Snapdeal and will also satiate fast growing demand for crunching big data "to build personalised and relevant experiences for consumers," it added.<br /><br />"Snapdeal was born in the cloud, but public clouds stopped being cost efficient after a scale, which became the case for Snapdeal sometime last year. In a short span of 10 months, we have succeeded in building an extremely resilient, scalable and secure solution," Rajiv Mangla, Chief Technology Officer, Snapdeal said.<br /><br />The cloud is built entirely on open source with OpenStack at the centre, making it among the largest OpenStack deployments of a hybrid cloud in the world.<br /><br />The cloud spans three data centre regions, with a dense server architecture of 100,000 cores and 16 Peta bytes of storage.</p>
<p>Online marketplace Snapdeal today announced the launch of its private cloud platform, Cirrus, to help the company offer a more frictionless, reliable experience to customers and help save costs.<br /><br /></p>.<p>This move will enable Snapdeal to ensure that business growth is augmented with platform speed, security, and stability, it said.<br /><br />The private cloud solution has been built and operationalised in under a year and is timed to handle long-term growth in traffic, Snapdeal said in a statement.<br /><br />The launch follows a sustained increase in online traffic at Snapdeal and will also satiate fast growing demand for crunching big data "to build personalised and relevant experiences for consumers," it added.<br /><br />"Snapdeal was born in the cloud, but public clouds stopped being cost efficient after a scale, which became the case for Snapdeal sometime last year. In a short span of 10 months, we have succeeded in building an extremely resilient, scalable and secure solution," Rajiv Mangla, Chief Technology Officer, Snapdeal said.<br /><br />The cloud is built entirely on open source with OpenStack at the centre, making it among the largest OpenStack deployments of a hybrid cloud in the world.<br /><br />The cloud spans three data centre regions, with a dense server architecture of 100,000 cores and 16 Peta bytes of storage.</p>