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The road to data center automation has been long and arduous, and even innovative companies like eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) haven’t gotten it perfected. But eBay’s closer than most.
The company’s a third of the way through a major three-year grid computing initiative, hard at work developing software and employing technologies that can describe the relationships between and among hardware and software in its data centers with the eventual goal of making eBay easier to manage, quicker to upgrade, and scalable beyond imagination.

At eBay’s scale, commercial software is often out of the question. After all, there are more than 3 petabytes of data to manage across six data centers. Even with such a complicated environment, the company’s able to manage all that storage with fewer than a dozen administrators. As more management tools and methods fall in line, eBay is hoping to take a step toward automatic service-level management at scale.

Check out this interesting article which is talking about how the IT infrastructure at ebay, it’s always good to see what issues others have and how they managed to resolve them either in terms of the technology or the process, do check it out.

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