IT pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in clouds

04.04.2012

It's an interesting question. We do keep an eye on that. But we have Brocade doing a lot of our 10-gig encryption. And F5 does our load balancing. I won't get into the firewall vendors, but let's just say we maintain multiple vendors just for this reason. It keeps them honest.

So on the other side of your business, the cloud service you provide to customers, is that supported by this all as well?

Yes, we have similar type of infrastructure but split out into different security zones, etc. A combination of Java and .NET stacks, load balanced and secured.

How many customers do you have living on that?

Almost 50,000. And that's companies, so then each one of those has X number of users. Our requirements are seven days a week. Every two weeks we have our software release process, but other than that it's got to be up.