Tests by mirroring activity on the AWS servers began in August 2014 around the time Dropbox took on a $500 million line of credit and the system went live at the end of last month.ĭropbox said its customers should not notice any difference in quality of service but the new data center will increase the efficiency with which stored data is accessed. It started creating its own storage system in 2013 with code development under the name of “Magic Pocket” Gupta said the project focused on a design that would scale from zero to the largest storage systems in the world, and automation that would allow a small team to maintain an enormous amount of hardware. Taking total control also means that all server entry points and APIs are known.ĭropbox has been working towards setting up its own data center for several years. He added that the decision to create everything from scratch was taken because of a lack of reliable open source blueprints that have been proven to work on the Exabyte scale. We built reliability and security into our design from the start, ensuring that the system stores the data in a safe and secure manner, and is highly available.” And even fewer have higher standards for safety and security. Akhil Gupta, Dropbox vice president of infrastructure engineering, said, “Few companies in the world have the same requirements for scale of storage as we do.
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