Flipkart is ramping up its technology infrastructure by investing $10 million in new servers from Dell to build a private cloud, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
"Flipkart's Big Billion Day sale made it realize that its current IT infrastructure is not capable of supporting such massive spikes in traffic," said one of the people."The company therefore decided to work towards building a robust private cloud by working with Dell."
Dell first signed up with the country's largest online retailer to build a private cloud in February last year. However, following events such as the Big Billion Day sale and Xiaomi Mi3 flash sale, the current infrastructure was found to be inadequate to support the surge in traffic. The result was frequent outages and customers were unable to shop.