PayPal has spoken publicly and regularly about its private OpenStack implementation and recently said that 20 percent of its infrastructure runs on OpenStack.
But it’s only a matter of time before PayPal starts running some of its operations on public clouds, said James Barrese, CTO of PayPal.
“We have a few small apps that aren’t financial related where we’re doing experiments on the public cloud,†he said. “We’re not using it in a way that’s a seamless hybrid because we’re a financial system and have very stringent security requirements.â€
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