How MercadoLibre Improves the Performance of Private Cloud

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Cloud storage can store data into logical pools
it is spread into multiple servers and
that physical environment is owned by a hosting
company that also manages the data. Also, the
provider company has to keep the data available
and easy to access at all times. This is
important because large scale companies, and one
of them is MercadoLibre, require storage for a
great amount of digital data, every day gigabytes
and gigabytes information is uploading. Company
Overview MercadoLibre is known as the largest
Latino American E-Commerce ecosystem. They
provide both buyers and sellers with a variety of
services. Those services, which are available in
the 13 countries where they successfully operate,
include a marketplace, payments, advertising and
solutions for e-building. MercadoLibre succeeds
in providing a strong and healthy environment
for their buyers and sellers trading, which
helps them to grow their e-commerce community.
Challenges MercadoLibre Had MercadoLibre used to
rely on an OpenStack private cloud for deploying
their IT infrastructure. However, its storage
infrastructure was unable to give the desired
results and the amount of performance that were
required due to its constantly expanding
application base. According to the storage
specialist at MercadoLibre, Mariano Guelar,
their administrators were constantly asking to
provide them with a different storage type. More
precisely, they asked for something that was more
efficient. Namely, they experienced a lot of
difficulties in balancing the performance
workloads inside their system. Because of that,
arriving at a point where everyone was happy with
the system
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response time and the performance of the
application seemed impossible. MercadoLibre ran a
wide range of applications through its OpenStack
cloud, and all of them had issues with speed so
that their performance was unpredictable. That is
when Solidfire came in play. Taking into account
these difficulties, finding a storage solution
that was scale-out was extremely important to
MercadoLibre. Scale-up storage designs are hard
to scale so that in order to grow them, you have
to buy separate, bigger systems. Once you do
this, the migration can cause significant
amounts of downtime, and thats not good if you
run a 24x7 business where you need 100 uptime.
MercadoLibre wanted a solution where they could
start with a slower pace and add the capacity and
performance they need. The Solution Is Called
SolidFire SolidFire is known for building
scale-out storage systems for cloud service
providers which are high-performing. However,
the problem with adding more and more nodes is
downtime. A business that runs 24/7 like
MercadoLibre uses SolidFire to start off with a
small infrastructure and later on add more and
more nodes as the demands dictate. They revealed
that they found out about SolidFire in Hong Kong
during a Design Summit in 2013 and that an
existing SolidFire customer from the US
recommended SolidFire to them. SolidFire gave
them a live demonstration of the product, so they
had a possibility to get acquainted with the
product interface. It was cleverly done using EZ
Talks, which is an Easy cloud HD Video
Conferencing platform. They did some testing and
once they got a feel for the way the platform
performs, they were fascinated by the outcome
results. What Did SolidFire Do for
Them? SolidFire provided not only an excellent
performance that was more predictable but also a
faster response time. Also, SolidFires unique
service quality and all-flash architecture
served to reduce latency that MercadoLibre had by
a significant amount. What is even more,
SolidFire can plug into MercadoLibres existing
cloud framework, which results in a better and
faster system administration.
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Since SolidFire provides compression and
deduplication, it reduces the companys
data storage space and requirements dramatically
as well as power and cooling needs. All of that
makes this solution perfect for near future. The
Results The improvements that MercadoLibre felt
were immediate. Their latency was reduced to
around 2 milliseconds from the previous 50
milliseconds. Their storage systems always had
inconsistent latency, which was constantly a
problem both for customers and their database
workloads. They manage to make communications
faster, smaller and cheaper to maintain. Inline
deduplication and compression reduced the data
footprint by 6.5 times for MercadoLibre. And for
other companies that want to deploy a private
cloud or just boost their existing cloud
infrastructure, there is no better solution than
SolidFire. The product is well designed and is
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