Strong interest in application containers and automation leads
Amadeus to choose Red Hat's cloud application platform offering
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that global travel technology provider
Amadeus is building its own highly available, self-service, automated
cloud platform - Amadeus Cloud Services - on OpenShift Enterprise, Red
Hat's award-winning private cloud application platform.
Amadeus is a leading provider of advanced technology solutions for the
global travel industry, serving customer groups including airlines,
airports, hotels, rail, travel agencies, plus travel management
companies.
Amadeus wanted to update the platform that connects all of these
stakeholders, and that enables its travel industry customers to access
content and travel tools from a single source.
Amadeus' datacenter is based in Erding, Germany, and it processes more
than 30,000 end-user transactions per second during peak operations.
However with their data transaction demands exponentially increasing,
many Amadeus customers wanted a travel application that could run
on-site locally or be accessed through public, private or hybrid cloud
platforms. To meet these requests from more than 12,000 infrastructure
devices, Amadeus' IT teams assessed various open source solutions for
infrastructure architecture and design and application containers,
ultimately selecting OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat to begin creating
and running a private cloud-based application designed to meet specific
customer demands. Amadeus then selected OpenShift to build the Amadeus
Cloud Services solution that they plan to gradually roll out to serve
Amadeus' travel industry customers.
Amadeus' early interest in Docker and containerized applications also
made OpenShift's lightweight container architecture - which natively
integrates Docker and Kubernetes and is fully supported by Red Hat - a
good fit for their environment, and the open source community support
around OpenShift also solidified the collaboration, with Amadeus
engineers now contributing to the upstream OpenShift
Origin community. This visibility into the OpenShift code allows
Amadeus engineers to maximize existing resources by integrating and
monitoring their existing middleware applications within the OpenShift
platform. Amadeus is also able to use OpenShift's automated recovery,
scaling and capacity planning abilities to re-deploy applications when
necessary, reducing the need to personally manage each of their
infrastructure applications.
As part of the project, Amadeus is increasing availability of its
leading-edge platform, while driving further reductions in latency at
the same time. Once fully deployed, Amadeus also expects Amadeus Cloud
Services to further streamline operations through automation while
reducing the time to market for new services.
Supporting Quotes
Dietmar Fauser, VP architecture, quality and governance at Amadeus
"At Amadeus we want to continue to get much closer to our customers from
a technological standpoint; to deliver applications more quickly, and to
provide a much more flexible platform that can adapt to change easily
and can accommodate different business models in the process. Although
we are still in the early stages of deployment, we have seen already
that the flexibility of the OpenShift platform and the support we have
received from Red Hat has allowed us to begin to take our application to
the next level and expand it to a wider customer base."
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
"We are excited to see that the powerful scaling and automation
capabilities of OpenShift Enterprise allows Amadeus to reach a larger
and wider variety of customers with specific demands, while allowing
them to maintain their platform's original structure. Amadeus'
deployment requirements spanning so many infrastructure devices truly
shows the benefits offered by OpenShift Enterprise's flexible container
orchestration capabilities."
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