LinkedIn employees were informed of the decision to pause the Azure migration last year. LinkedIn CTO, Raghu Hiremagalur, stated in a memo that the company would continue to use some Azure services and focus on scaling and innovating its on-premises infrastructure. LinkedIn is also constructing an additional data center to handle its computing needs. Despite the halt on the Blueshift project, a LinkedIn spokesperson confirmed that the company continues to use Azure to complement its infrastructure needs.
Key takeaways:
- LinkedIn has halted its plan to move its data center technology to Microsoft's Azure cloud, a project code-named 'Blueshift'.
- The decision is a setback for Microsoft, which is competing with Amazon Web Services in the cloud infrastructure market.
- LinkedIn will continue to use some Azure services and focus on scaling and innovating its on-premises infrastructure.
- LinkedIn is constructing an additional data center to handle its computing needs, and continues to use Azure to complement its infrastructure needs.