Kogan Sold On OpenStack Cloud

The retailer is using Rackspace's OpenStack-based Hybrid Cloud offering to drive its online operations

"If our office burnt down today," says Goran Stefkovski, "we would be running the business from the cafe next door tomorrow."

It seems an appropriate sentiment from Stefkovski, given that he is the director of technology at Kogan, the online electronics retailer whose founder, Ruslan Kogan, has waged a very public war of words with bricks-and-mortar retailers (most notably Harvey Norman's chairman, Gerry Harvey).

Behind the scenes, the infrastructure running Kogan's online presence is powered by Rackspace's cloud, based on OpenStack.