MercadoLibre, Inc. Uses OpenStack
"Our main goal was to achieve a new level of agility and flexibility, and demonstrate that we could remove the manual work associated with deploying new resources. We achieved this."
Rodrigo Benzaquen, director of site operations and infrastructure
Case Study:
MercadoLibres Bid for Cloud Automation
When MercadoLibre decided to build an internal private cloud capable of automatically provisioning the resources users need, it turned to OpenStack. If you live in Latin America (and even if you dont) you most likely know the online trading platform MercadoLibre. MercadoLibre is where 58 million consumers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela go to buy and sell.
OpenStack Objectives for MercadoLibre, Inc.:
Build a private cloud so internal users could provision the resources they need on the fly.
Links About MercadoLibre, Inc.
- MercadoLibre Website
- Business Cloud News Article
- MercadoLibre OpenStack Prezi
- Canonical's MercadoLibre Case Study
The corporate website of MercadoLibre
MercadoLibre mentioned in discussion about OpenStack's Diablo release.
A presentation given at the OpenStack Conference in October, 2011
Mercadolibre builds 1,000-node Ubuntu cloud for IT on demand
MercadoLibre, Inc.
- http://www.mercadolibre.com
- Industry: e-Commerce
- Headquarters: Buenos Aires, Argentina
OpenStack technologies MercadoLibre, Inc. uses:
- OpenStack Compute
- OpenStack Object Storage
- OpenStack Image Service
