Building cloud infrastructure is one thing. Keeping everything around it, including billing, provisioning, support, running smoothly as you grow is another challenge entirely. It’s not the kind of work that gets noticed – unless it’s missing.
Sharktech, a hosting and cloud company with roots going back to 2003, has been there. And like many providers expanding into OpenStack-based services, they realized the real slowdown wasn’t in the infrastructure. It was in how to make it all manageable at scale.
As an organization actively supporting the OpenInfra Foundation, we jumped at the chance to connect with CEO Tim Timrawi – not just to learn how Sharktech solved that challenge, but also to see how our OpenStack Projects For WHMCS fit into the solution, and why bringing in the right kind of help at the right time made all the difference. Continue reading