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Wayfair Selects Google Cloud in Shift from Hybrid Cloud to Unified Public Cloud StrategyWorld-leading retailer of home goods completes transformative data center migration to operate fully in the cloud with Google SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Google Cloud today announced that Wayfair (NYSE: W), one of the world's largest online destinations for the home, has completed a full migration of its data center applications and services to the cloud, with Google Cloud as the foundation of its overall cloud strategy. The move helps the retailer increase business agility and technical innovation, handle burst capacity, and scale new uses of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for scenarios ranging from fraud detection to personalized customer outreach. Migrating 100% of its cloud applications to Google Cloud is a key milestone in Wayfair's technology strategy to support 24 million active customers who rely on the retailer to create their feeling of home. The migration—which represents a shift from Wayfair's hybrid cloud strategy to a unified public cloud strategy—included moving all of Wayfair's databases, application datastores, compute frameworks, and analytics and data science tools into the cloud. In doing so, Wayfair is giving its developers and analysts an increased ability to safely deploy and operate applications, in addition to storing, securing, enriching, and presenting operational and analytical data in the cloud. Perhaps most impressive of all, the large-scale migration effort was completed in 16 months with zero impact to Wayfair's customers. "Google Cloud is a key part of our innovation strategy to adapt and thrive in a landscape that shifts as quickly as consumer preferences do," said Fiona Tan, chief technology officer, Wayfair. "The complete migration of our data center operations to Google Cloud is an essential part of ensuring Wayfair's long-term competitiveness and resilience. With this partnership, we're better able to handle sudden traffic, empower our engineers with more autonomy, and use AI and ML to create a better shopping experience for our customers." Google Cloud is now helping Wayfir to:
Wayfair's migration to Google Cloud was a technically complex and massive effort that involved successfully migrating or retiring 330,000 CPU cores, 23,000 operating system instances, more than 8,500 applications, and more than 5,700 Kubernetes namespaces, as well as retraining Wayfair staff on the new technologies. Without the need for expensive, on-premises hardware, Wayfair donated its existing data center equipment, including modern servers and networking equipment, to fuel research work at the Rochester Institute of Technology. "Being data-driven and agile is synonymous with retail sales success, and technology is the key to unlocking these capabilities," said Carrie Tharp, vice president, Retail and Consumer Solutions at Google Cloud. "Wayfair is on the leading edge of retail, and at every stage of our partnership, we've seen them tackle new and bold technology efforts that ultimately delight their customers with better shopping experiences." About Google Cloud About Wayfair The Wayfair family of sites includes:
Wayfair generated $12.6 billion in net revenue for the twelve months ended June 30, 2022. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with operations throughout North America and Europe, Wayfair employs approximately 18,000 people.
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