International Airlines Group Picks Red Hat as Technology Partner to Power its Hybrid Cloud Platform
Leading airline group uses Red Hat’s open virtualization technology
to support thousands of virtual machines; International Airlines Group
selects Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure to create new OpenStack-based cloud
services platform
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT 2017 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's
leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that leading
airline group International Airlines Group (IAG) is using Red Hat
solutions as the basis of its hybrid cloud platform, serving as a
foundational element of its digital transformation initiatives.
IAG has expanded its use of Red Hat Virtualization to provide the server
infrastructure for provisioning new Group-wide services, helping IAG
improve business continuity for mission workloads at scale while also
delivering the necessary agility for the Group to improve existing
services and quickly bring new business applications to market. As part
of IAG’s plans to provide new cloud-based services, they have also
selected Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, Red Hat’s integrated solution for
building and managing an open, private Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) cloud, as the basis for its OpenStack-based cloud.
The Group’s work with Red Hat started in 2003, with British Airways
selecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its Linux-based platform to
support core operational functions, including flight and passenger
management. International Airlines Group was formed in 2011 following
the merger of British Airways and Iberia and has since acquired Aer
Lingus and Vueling. The core commitment to an open source technology
backbone remained, with Red Hat Virtualization now running on more than
600 physical servers and supporting more than 7,500 virtual machines.
Offering complete enterprise virtualization management for servers and
technical workstations, Red Hat Virtualization is built on the world’s
leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, delivering
the stability and nimbleness at scale, a necessity for growing
enterprises like IAG. Within the Group, Red Hat Virtualization along
with management capabilities delivered by Red Hat Satellite provides:
- More efficient flight management by providing the
infrastructure and environment for IAG to overhaul their passenger
check-in and luggage logging operations into a more user friendly
system. Rather than requiring weeks of training like legacy “green
screen” systems, IAG’s new graphical interface takes only 20 minutes
to learn and greatly speeds up customer-facing activities.
- A smaller hardware footprint as Red Hat Virtualization enables
IAG to get the most out of existing servers and datacenter
infrastructure. High speed provisioning with new applications
being delivered in minutes instead of weeks, thanks to the agility
presented by Red Hat Virtualization and the unified management
capabilities of Red Hat Satellite. Web servers can be up and running
in 15 minutes versus hours or days, time-to-market for new services is
decreased and seasonal spikes can be anticipated and reacted to in
real-time, all contributing to a smoother passenger journey and
improved employee productivity.
With Red Hat Virtualization acting as the foundation for IAG’s push
towards digital transformation, the Group’s next step is to embrace
cloud computing. Using Red Hat’s open technologies as the flexible base
for future operations, including Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a
comprehensive solution that supports organizations on their journey from
traditional datacenter virtualization to OpenStack-powered clouds, IAG
hopes to increase savings while improving service availability, all as
part of its mission to deliver a smoother, stress-free journey for its
customers. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure is a single subscription
offering that includes Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat
Virtualization, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Satellite, and Red Hat
Insights.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms Business
Unit, Red Hat
“The ability to transform digitally, taking advantage of emerging
technologies, best practices and IT skills, has become a critical factor
for modern enterprises, as they are faced with becoming de facto
software companies or risk losing market share to competitors. IAG has
taken a strong step towards overcoming this obstacle by embracing the
open, flexible foundation provided by Red Hat Virtualization, which
offers the power and scalability of virtualization backed by open
standards and community-powered innovation, and Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure, which can serve as the foundation for their hybrid
cloud.”
Adrian Steel, group IT manager, IAG
“IAG is a longtime Red Hat customer, and we trust them to help us with a
hybrid cloud strategy that can meet our needs for years to come. We have
been able to reduce our footprint by 15 to one while introducing
near-infinite scalability so that we can meet the needs of the business
as it grows.”
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