Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Taps Red Hat to Support Goal of Becoming Best Digital Airport
Europe’s third largest airport works to create great passenger
experience with new digital services; Creates multi-cloud platform based
on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, and Red Hat
3scale API Management to create and support new services
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT 2017 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's
leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Europe’s third largest airport, is using Red
Hat solutions to expand the range of services it offers passengers,
supporting its goal of becoming the world’s best digital airport. With
help from Red Hat, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is creating a
self-service, multi-cloud platform for its internal IT team and its
business partners, slashing development time as it creates new services
for travelers.
Servicing more than 63.6 million passengers and processing more than 1.7
million tons of cargo last year, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is Europe's
third largest airport in terms of passenger number and cargo volume. The
100 year-old airport aims to continue its position as a top airport in
Europe and to do so, the airport set forth its bold ambition to become
the world’s best digital airport by 2018. To create a great passenger
experience with technology, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has focused on
creating digitally-minded culture, introducing a range of new
technologies and digital services - all aimed at simplifying and
improving the passenger journey and the airport’s operations.
As part of this effort, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol reviewed its IT
services strategy, and wanted a scalable application platform to
accelerate the development and deployment of its new digital services
across its hybrid environment. They required a cloud-agnostic, open
platform that could not only enable application portability, offering
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol greater flexibility and the ability to avoid
lock-in on a cloud platform, and which could also integrate with partner
services through APIs.
After a detailed review of competitive solutions, Amsterdam Airport
Schiphol chose Red Hat to support its needs for a modern and agile
platform aligned with its technology vision, including new cloud-native
applications and digital services based on open APIs.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is creating a hybrid, multi-cloud development
platform based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform deployed across
Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its on-premise
virtualized environment. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the
first and only container-centric, hybrid cloud solution built from Linux
containers, Kubernetes, Project Atomic and OpenShift Origin upstream
projects and based on the trusted backbone of the world’s leading
enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform provides a more secure, stable platform for
container-based deployments without sacrificing current IT investments,
enabling mission-critical, traditional applications to coexist alongside
new, cloud-native and container-based applications.
Using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform across its multi-cloud
environment, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol can also meet its high
availability and scalability challenges during its busiest times,
including holidays. And, with the highly scalable, container-native
storage solution provided by Red Hat Gluster Storage integrated with Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol was able to
manage the complexities of persistent storage.
Key to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s digital strategy are the services it
delivers via APIs, including its Flight API, which provides information
for passengers such as gate, terminal and check-in time. The APIs are
also shared with its partners for enhanced passenger services. The
airport had already been using Red Hat JBoss Fuse for its on-premise
infrastructure as the airport's main service bus. Now, it has connected
this on-premise service to JBoss Fuse integration services running on
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to exchange data between its main
systems and APIs running in the cloud. With JBoss Fuse-based API
services in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat 3scale API
Management, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol reports that it can create new
APIs 50 percent faster.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is an excellent example of an organization
embracing a more flexible open source platform to support its digital
transformation. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has an ambitious goal - to
become the best digital airport by 2018 - and has recognized that doing
so not only requires a more modern technology stack, but also a shift in
processes and people's mindset. Red Hat is excited to be Amsterdam
Airport Schiphol’s technology partner, and as they progress toward this
goal, the combination of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, JBoss
Fuse, Red Hat 3scale API Management, and Red Hat Gluster Storage offers
them a more agile platform to speed the delivery of new services.”
Mechiel Aalbers, senior technical application coordinator, Amsterdam
Airport Schiphol
“Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, truly, has stolen my heart,
because the platform is innovative, I can deploy quickly, and I am in
control of the containers. We want to have stable solutions that are
sustainable for the coming years, but we need things to happen quickly.
Our developers don't have to wait for development or test environments
now, so we can add more business value more quickly. We have shifted
risk from our mission-critical systems to a solution which we believe is
future-proof, and which we are planning to use in the coming years for
our cloud strategy.”
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