MyRepublic is continuing to build out its OpenStack-based private cloud, with the Internet service provider preparing to launch a site in New Zealand next year. The Singapore-headquartered ISP launched in 2011 then expanded its operations to New Zealand in 2014 and Indonesia in 2015. MyRepublic launched in Australia in late 2016 with a focus on selling National Broadband Network services. It was as part of its Australian launch that it first rolled out OpenStack. “We started using OpenStack when we launched our greenfields deployment in Australia,” explained the ISP’s CIO, Eugene Yeo. In the three markets it launched in before coming to Australia, the ISP had relied on VMware’s vSphere. “We faced some challenges particularly in one of our markets and it caused us to rethink the way that we wanted to deploy and manage our infrastructure,” Yeo said. “What we wanted was a seamless cloud infrastructure across the entire group,” the CIO said. One problem faced by the ISP was scaling up to meet traffic spikes, in part thanks to a fragmented infrastructure landscape. Head of IT and security Sebastian Wieseler said that in the past, project owners at MyRepublic would frequently purchase their own hardware and VMware licences. “Operations-wise, it became a headache to have so many siloed architectures, siloed systems to manage,” he said. MyRepublic engaged Red Hat to help build a private cloud. Since it launched in Australia the company has expanded its private cloud to two sites Singapore in late 2016/early 2017 and to Indonesia… [Read full story]
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